Dawood Sarkhosh (also spelled as Daud Sarkhosh) (Dari-Persian: ) born 26 April 1971 in Jaghori, Afghanistan, is an ethnic Hazara singer, musician and poet. Early life Sarkhosh's inspiration was his older brother Sarwar Sarkhosh, a nationalist and legendary musician of his times who was killed during the civil war. Sarkhosh learned playing dambura and singing from him at the age of seventeen. After the death of his brother Sarkhosh migrated to Pakistan first to Peshawar city then moved to Quetta, Pakistan. Career Sarkhosh revived his skills by singing and composing songs inspired by a sense of nationalism and suffering in exile. He did not sing for commercial gain, but out of nostalgia and to convey the feelings about refugee life as experienced by refugees of Afghanistan dispersed throughout the world. They went to his concerts in their thousands, marking Sarkhosh's rise as a singer. It was in Quetta that he mastered the harmonium under the Pakistani composer Arbab Ali Khan. Personal life Dawood Sarkhosh is married to Kubra Nekzad Sarkhosh with three children; Saboor, Zulfiqar and Yasir. They now live in Austria Vienna. Discography 1998: Sarzamin-e-Man (My Homeland, ). 2000: Parijo (Fairy, ). 2004: Sapid-o-Siah (Black and White, ). 2005: Khana-e-Gilli (Mud House, ). 2007: Oslo Concert 2008: Maryam (Maryam a girl's name, ). 2010: Bazi (Game/play, ). 2016: Jang-o-jonoon (War and madness, war and insanity, ) released by Sarkhosh Music inc Canada. 2016: concert in the capital cities of Australia. December 2017 concert in the capital cities of Canada 2019: concert in Finland, Austria, Sweden. 2019: Man o To, (Me and You, ). 2019: concert in the capital cities of Australia and New Zealand. See also Sarwar Sarkhosh List of Hazara people Hazara diaspora References External links Dawood Sarkhosh's official website 1971 births Living people Hazara singers Dombra players People from Quetta Afghan male singers Persian-language singers People from Daykundi Province 20th-century Afghan male singers Austrian people of Hazara descent Afghan expatriate musicians in Pakistan