Sarban

Sarban or Saroban - Persian ساربان: " camel man " and " Guide of the Caravan " - (* 1930 in Kabul; † 2 April 1993) is the stage name of the Afghan musician and composer Abdul Rahim Mahmmodi.

Abdul Rahim Mahmmodi grew up in a social democratic minded family. He is related to Dr. Abdul Rahman Mahmmodi who stood up together with the historian and journalist Ghulam Muhammad Ghubar for the democratic parliamentary system and for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Afghanistan.

"Where is my sun, in my home there is the cold ," he sang in the 1960s. The song was written by the poet of the Dari language Abolqasem Lahuti († 1957), which became a hit for the student movement in Afghanistan. However, his commitment to reform, and his kinship were him for his musical development and career in Kabul undoing.

Thanks to its proximity with the director Fazal Mohammad Nekyait he could participate only in 1952 in the theater " Pohanne Nenndari " in building a theater chorus and orchestra, and even sang under his real name in Radio Kabul.

The following song he sang in a concert:

Whereupon Radio Kabul suspended him and ordered him responsible for the art and information ministry prohibition.

Sarban worked after this prohibition in the rice shop of his father, and stood, and again privately at weddings and parties. Although beamed radio Afghanistan his songs no longer, yet his songs via records and tape recorders in every nook and corner of the country could be known and beyond the borders of Afghanistan.

Was forced to resign after the cousin Zahir Shah, Prime Minister Daud, in 1963, Sarbans comeback could be possible.

In the wake of the democratization period and the ratification of a new constitution, according to which no relative of the king was to be Prime Minister, Abdul Rahim Mahmmodi sang after his comeback under the stage name " Sarban " the next song of the Ghazalschreibers Qarizadah:

Sarban sang more well-known songs, among others, Afghan wedding song Ahesta Bero ( recovered ) and the Nouruzlied " Tulip Festival " in Mazar i Sharif. The song has become very popular in Central Asia, India and the Arab songs. The song is sung in Hindi and Arabic by the local artists. Sarban, who was now addicted to alcohol and hashish, was after a stroke also paralyzed.

In 1983, during the war, emigrated to the musician, who was an idol of Ahmad Zahir, to Pakistan. There he lived for 10 years long in poverty and died on 2 April 1993.

Sarbans songs are still popular. His songs today are played and sung by the young generation of musicians.