Raheem Ghamzada

Northern Escapee: Requesting speedy deletion (CSD A7).

---

| name = Raheem Ghamzada (Rahim Ghamzada) <br />رحيم غمزده
| birth_date = 1939
| birth_place = [[Afghanistan]]
| death_date = 16 December, 2011
| known_for = [[Pashto]] and [[Dari]] Poetry, Songs
| notable_works = Zama Khkulay Janana, Dilbar e Man, Stargo de Janan, etc.
| home_town = Khogyani [[Nangarhar]]

}}

'''Raheem Ghamzada''' ([[Pashto language|Pashto]]: '''رحيم غمزده'''), was a prominent [[Pashto]]-language poet and singer in the 70's till his death in 2011 due to Cancer. Rahim Ghamzada was the first singer who composed Pashto folk music in both eastern and western tunes.

== Early life ==
Ghamzada was born in [[Afghanistan]], [[Khogyani (Pashto: خوږياڼي ولسوالۍ‎, Persian: ولسوالی خوگیانی‎) is a district in the south of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan]].

== Career ==
Ghamzada had worked for 60 years in music branch of Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA). Rahim Ghamzada turned to music at the age of Fourteen. He shone brightly in the late 1950s and recorded nearly two hundred songs on the Afghan National Radio and Television.

He combined Indian and Western compositions with Pashto songs, which made his songs more popular and successful.
Rahim Ghamzada composed all his songs. One of the secrets of his artistic success was the selection of good poems.

He Composed and sung to the poems of Ghani Khan, Rehman Baba and other powerful poets decades ago. Ghamzada also won many awards and accolades for his art.

== Influence ==
He belonged to the [[Khogyani (Pashtun tribe)|Khogyani tribe]] of the ethnic [[Pashtuns]]. His work is considered a fusion between classic and modern poetry. He wrote classical [[poetry]], blended it with recent innovations, and introduced new ideas in [[Pashto language|Pashto]].

== Personal life ==
Rahim Ghamzada said in an interview decades ago that he had four sons and two daughters.
These figures may have changed given the age of the interview and the information.

== The lawyer ==
Rahim Ghamzada, as mentioned, was also the advocate of his people.
He lived near the Angorbagh area of ​​Jalalabad's second district.
Ghamzada is still famous for his street where most of his family lives.

== The poet ==
Rahim Ghamzada was also a poet and recited many of his poems with music.
Ghamzada's poetry was also remarkable and can be reckoned with at the level of folk poetry.
His collection of poems, titled [["My Beautiful Beloved " Pashto language|Pashto (زما ښکلی جانانه)]], was compiled and published a few years ago by Lal Pacha Azmoon, a professor at Kabul University.

==References==


==External links==
* Rahim Ghamzada at [https://ift.tt/36O4XFD]
* Rahim Ghamzada at [https://ift.tt/2Ir4GPS]







[[Category:Pashto-language poets/singer]]
[[Category:Pashtun people]]
[[Category:Afghan poets/singer]]
[[Category:Pashto Art]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Pride of Performance]]
[[Category:1939 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category: People from Khogyani District]]

from Wikipedia - New pages [en] https://ift.tt/33QgVgf
via IFTTT