Wajiha Rastagar
Wajiha Rastagar was born on 12 May 1967 in Shashdarak, Kabul, and has been performing since the early 1980s, starting with cultural programmes while she was still a primary school pupil. She sings pop and folk in both Dari and Pashto. What makes her recordings from the mid-1980s distinctive is the sound. She and her band were experimenting with synthesizers at a time when very few Afghan acts were, drawing on British and American new wave — a direction audible on the records and unusual in Afghan music of the period. Her albums include Rahi dor, Khana-i-del, Dar parda hai saz, Hadia and Delak-i-khoshbawar, which won a bestseller award from Khorasan Music in 2003. She performed at international festivals between 1981 and 1990, including in Berlin, Moscow and Tajikistan. She and her husband, the singer and composer Farid Rastagar, have lived in exile in Germany since 1992, and have given more than forty concerts across Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States since 1993. She returned to Kabul in 2010 to perform for members of the Afghan National Civil Order Police. Their daughter Hadia Rastagar recorded Alocha, described as Afghanistan's first album of children's songs.
59 songs on Sandar, including 49 with video. Stream them free, or go ad-free with Plus.
Songs by Wajiha Rastagar
- Agar to
- Aisha
- Arose Mara
- Ba Wo Zolfane
- Be Ashiyana Gashtam
- Chapa Kakol
- Chapa Kakol Wa Negar Jan
- Chi Ro Dad Khodara
- Dar Gula Raftane
- Dil Bari
- Hawa Tu Hawa Taza
- Kabul
- Khob Ast Aga Sar Khosh Khandan Bashi
- Lori Lai Lori Lai Bachi Man
- Ma Gul Wara Satali - (Pashto)
- Man Dokhtari Hiratam
- Paktia
- Paktiya Pa Dag Ki - (Pashto)
- Qeyam Kon
- Rahe Door
- Rasha Rasha Ashna - (Pashto)
- Sare Sham
- Sarzamine Man
- Shahre Khurshid
- Shishta Bodam Nim Shab
- To Gofta Budi
- Wajiha Rastagar
- Watanwala
- Ya Elahi
- Ya Elahi Chi Konam
- Zari Zari Kardam
- Zindagi
Music videos
- Agar to
- Aisha
- Anar Anar
- Arose Mara
- Baz Yak Sarbaz As
- Begzar Az Man Begzar
- Benawaz
- Boro Boro Baba
- Chapa Kakol
- Chapa Kakol Wa Negar Jan
- Dasht Kenara
- En Che Eshqest
- Falak
- Fasela
- Fasela Masela
- Fatojan
- Gham Hai Donya
- Ghariba
- GulabJan
- Gul Barani
- Hamsaya
- Hawa Tu Hawa Taza
- Kabul
- Lorelay Lorelay Bache
- Man Dokhtari Hiratam
- Nazi Jan
- Paktia
- Paktya Pe Dag Ke
- Qeda Qadam Ro
- Qeyam Kon
- Rahe Door
- Rasha Rasha Ashna - (Pashto)
- Sare Sham
- Sarzamine Man
- Saya
- Shahre Khurshid
- Siyah Chadar
- To Gofta Budi
- Tu Az Shar Khorseed
- Wajiha Rastagar
- Watanwala
- Yaar Jani
- Ya Elahi
- Ya Elahi Chi Konam
- Yare Yak Sarbaz
- Zari Zari Kardam
- Ze Che Pe Toro
- Zindagi
- Zindagi Hameen As