Akbar Nikzad

Akbar Nikzad (born June 1966, died 29 March 2021) was among the better-known Afghan singers of the late radio-and-television era. He grew up in Kabul, completed school there, and studied Persian language and literature at Kabul University while already performing. His songs were broadcast on Afghan national radio and television through the 1980s and into the 1990s, and the one most listeners name first is “Lotf-e Yar Shoda Kam”. He emigrated to Germany in the mid-1990s, at the height of the civil war. He said later that the circumstances of those first years in exile made it impossible to keep working as a musician, and that he only returned to it afterwards — releasing albums including Khosrow-e Khuban, Maqam-e Sabr and Mast-e Naz. He wrote most of his own material and composed for other singers as well. As a young man, by his own account, he followed Nashenas closely before deciding to find a style of his own. In a 2017 interview with the BBC he said what he wanted was enough security in Afghanistan to go home and perform for people there. He died in Germany in 2021, aged 55, of COVID-19, and was survived by his wife and two children.

44 songs on Sandar, including 13 with video. Stream them free, or go ad-free with Plus.

Songs by Akbar Nikzad

Be Dil
Be Dil Ba Hawas
Dastaye Gul
Deeda Mash Mast
Dilam Be
Dilbar-E-Dil Ha Shodi
Eshq Dar Daftar
Gunai Jurm Nes
Hosh Merwam
Jan Raft Mah Ba Arezoye Dil Namerasem
Juram Deedan
Khak Dan Por Wahshat
Khob Bad Rr Imteyaz Neest
Khobo Bad Ra Emtiaz
Lotf Yar Jan Shodah
Lutfe Yaar Jan
May Khana O May
Moqame Sard
Naranjane
Neek O Bad
Neshan Nam To Yaram
Nin Mazegar
Noosh O Nasheen
Saalgira
Sa Karum
Satya
Sawdaye Yar
Shabe Mahtaab
Shah Mardaan
Sharabam
Sta Pa Mena Me
Waranah Kardi
Zarka Bar

Music videos

Ashaki Man
Che Meporse Mapors
Gar Bar Tab To
Hajat Bar Talab Nest
Halee Dega
Lotf E Yaar Jan Shoda Kam
Lutfe Yaar Jan
Mai Parast
Qawali 2011 -1
Qawali 2011- 2
Sabori Kardan Wa Nachar
Shabe Mahtaab
Zandagi

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