"The Elvis Presley Of Pashto Music" Ustad Khyal Muhammad Khan Afridi. Khyal Muhammad was born in Peshawar in the year 1946 to a musical family. His brother called Saif Ul-Maluk was a famous musician in the 1960s, who often played music on Radio Peshawar. Saif got Khyal introduced to the radio station, where played music first in the year 1958 at the age of 13. Meanwhile, for the next 10 years he largely limited himself to playing musical instruments like the tabla and harmonium. In the later part of the 1960s he started singing and recording ghazals, outmoded Pashto poems, an audacious flutter since the music division at that period was subjugated by folk music. His pattern soon turned out to be widespread in Peshawar and the NWFP. After launching his name on the local radio in year 1973–1974, Khyal Mohammad give the impression in his first movie called Dara-i-Khyber, one of the paramount Pollywood Pashto movies. This offered his profession a kick-start, and since that time ...
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