He is a composer, vocalist, and musician born into a family steeped into musical tradition. A brilliant virtuoso endowed with a charismatic musical presence and personality.

He was born in Kabul in 1976 into one of Afghanistan’s leading musical families. From the age of ten, he studied rubab—a double-chambered lute, and the national instrument of Afghanistan—with his father, Ustad Ghulam Sakhi...