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Award winning Afghan singer and composer Farhad Darya has been the most influential musician on the Afghan Music scene since the mid 80s, and certainly is a founder of a new wave of music in Afghanistan. His influences have echoed throughout several music styles and subsequent generations. Darya is known as the most prominent voice and a revolutionary creative force behind the contemporary music of Afghanistan. Farhad Darya is a pioneer of committed and devoted music in Afghanistan. He has been an extraordinary hit-maker since the late ‘80s. During the reign of the red invaders, Darya was recognized as the founder of Afghan resistance music inside Afghanistan. Darya’s never-ending struggle for Afghanistan’s music revival in the face of the most restrictive sanctions in the long history of music in his country, the political and social changes of 2001, and finally, after the collapse of Taliban, the revival of freedom announced by Radio Afghanistan (November 13, 2001) awakening the city with Darya’s song “Kabul Jaan” (beloved Kabul) fully introduced him to the Western world, to the point that Western media started calling him “The Voice of the Afghan Nation” (Die Welt, German newspaper) and “Man of the Day” (BBC Radio). Farhad Darya is the first Afghan musician to have come home from the West after the current socio-political developments in Afghanistan. He gave the biggest concert in the history of Afghan music in Kabul Stadium, exactly where innocent people used to be me