
Singer, Kabul
Nasrat Sharqi is a singer from Afghanistan. With his keen talents and technological savvy he programmed a Yamaha workstation keyboard with Afghani taals or rhythms. As time went on, with newer technology and the introduction of MIDI, he introduced the Roland R8 drum machine which is still used by Afghan singers today.

Singer, Kabul
Nasrat Parsa was a popular Afghan singer. Up until his murder, he continued his music in exile from Hamburg, Germany, occasionally touring other countries.

Singer, Kabul
Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat, born as Sadiq Fitrat Habibi, known professionally as Nashenas, is one of the oldest surviving musicians from Afghanistan. His fame began in the late 1950s, and since then he has produced many albums consisting of Pashto, dari, and Urdu songs. He is known as “the Afghan Saigal”.