Hamad wali biography

Afghan singers
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Ahmad wali

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The artist

Growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hangama Amiri (b. 1989) would visit her uncle's tailor shop before school to learn about the tools he used to make his garments. Today, the colourful fabrics that surrounded her childhood still vibrate for Hangama with intense feelings of memory, identity and home.

When Hangama was 7-years-old, she and her family were forced to leave Afghanistan because of the Taliban. After living in Pakistan and Tajikistan, they moved to Canada when Hangama was 16-years-old. As a refugee, Hangama's journey has taken her through many challenges, but art gave her a sense of freedom.

'I have this tool to express myself and I express the happy moments, the contemporary voices, the contemporary scenes. It is not all about the misery. My visuals are about hope, about now, about the future'.

Hangama's textile works evoke a personal diaspora as means to investigate the politics of gender in the Afghan culture, while celebrating feminine subjects that have been deemed taboo. The act of sewing different fabric and material togethe

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Vahid Soroor

Musical artist

Vahid Soroor (Persian: وحید سرور; born 1971) is an Afghan singer.

Soroor was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, to two established cinema, theatre, TV and radio artist parents Mazida and Khan Agha Soroor, he caught on to music at an early age. At the age of eight he performed for school concerts at Said Noor Mohammad Shah Mina School in Karte-Nau. Vahid and his family moved to India in 1982, where he sang as the lead singer for his school in more than five large concerts. Vahid Soroor left (during a Qawali concert in India). In the spring of 1987, Vahid and his family moved to Canada, where he teamed up with his two brothers Walid and Wais Soroor and performed as the lead singer for the first musical group of Afghanistan in Toronto called Caravan in 1988. Vahid, then, joined his brother Walid Soroor and started a group called king of hearts or Sultane Qalbha where he assumed the role of the keyboard player while he continued his post secondary education at York University in Toronto.

Vahid was successful as a keyboard player and played with the likes

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by S. Ghilzai / January 27, 2016

Hangama Zohra is a famous Afghan pop singer. Born in 1962 in Kabul, Hangama’s stage name was chosen by the singer’s mother when she decided to pursue a career in music. Little is known about her upbringing until she collaborated with Ahmad Wali in the 1970’s. The duo became immensely popular in Afghanistan, and even in neighboring Iran and Tajikistan. Hangama is known for singing pop-styled songs as well as ghazals. She left Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation in 1985, and fled to Germany. It was there that she and Ahmad Wali decided to wed. The couple had one child, Massieh Wali, and soon after divorced. In the past decade, Hangama has held concerts with other Afghan singers such as Valy and Najim Nawabi. She is thought to have made a lasting contribution to Afghan music. Hangama currently resides in Toronto, Canada, and continues writing music and performing.

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