The portrait is painted by Fathullah Muradi

Biography

Dawood Sarkhosh, a multi-talented artist, was born in 1971 in the province of Urozgan in Central Afghanistan. He is married to Kobra Sarkhosh and they have three sons, Saboor, Zulfiqar and Yaseer. The family lives in Vienna, Austria.

Dawood Sarkhosh revived the art by creating songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. His songs are not commercial, they were artistic reflection of the nostalgia and the bitter taste of refugee life experienced by millions of Afghan refugees throughout the world. 

Dawood Sarkhosh is a prominent and well-known personality in the modern Afghan music scene with a style all his own. His greatest achievement has been the skillful combination of commitment and art. In other words, he has not only delivered music to familiar ears but has tried to reach those forbidden from listening to music with the hope of familiarizing them with a flavor of it. That is why he is considered as a pioneer in this field. The dynamic personality of Sarkhosh flows amongst the affliction of his people’s misfortunes towards newer horizons. He is without any doubt one of the corner stones of our music.
Dawood has been bearing with him the native soul of the Hazarejat sonnet and eulogy filled with the wartime lamentation of homeless evacuees, with the social understanding that music brings, he has arrived at an outstanding and unique place which reveals a requiem of suffering and sorrow, in which he has rescued with boldness long forgotten treasures of poetry and music in the hope of preserving our culture.