Homayun Sakhi

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Homayun Sakhi , also Homayoun Sakhi (born January 1, 1976 in Kabul ) is an Afghan Ruba player who lives in Kabul and since 2001 temporarily in San Francisco . He is considered a virtuoso .

Life

Raised in a family of musicians (father playing rubs, the legendary Ustād Mohammad Omar was his uncle), he started playing rubs when he was 9 years old. He attended a general education school in Kabul until 1992 and then fled to Peshawar with his family from the civil war and Taliban rule . There he began to give public concerts accompanied by local musicians who had fled there, but also on his own. In Peshawar he developed and consolidated his playing style. To a certain extent, Homayoun Sakhi has further developed the Rubabspiel coined by Ustad Mohammad Omar, but also the instrument itself. He plays the genre Naghma (a kind of song without singing) with the greatest mastery, sounding a wide tonal and temporal variation. By adding a fourth melody string to the rubab (traditionally 3 melody strings and 2–3 drone strings ), Sakhi increased the number of octaves from one and a half to two and a half, thereby expanding the tone scales. With it he creates almost all tones and sounds of the other string instruments with ease, especially those of the guitar and the tanbur . As the first rubab player, he introduced the plucking and striking of the 19 sympathetic strings, so he can make his rubab sound like a santur with considerable skill . Homayoun Sakhi is the most famous Afghan musician outside of Afghanistan. a. played with many western musicians, e.g. B. with the Kronos Quartet and the Berlin Philharmonic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After Hard Times At Home, Afghan Musicians Seek US Ears. In: NPR.org. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ «بر بال‌های رباب» نوشته‌ی یما ناشر یکمنش | خواندنی | نبشت.کام. (No longer available online.) January 1, 2000, archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; accessed on July 10, 2016 (fa-IR). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nebesht.com
  3. ↑ Homayun Sakhi: The art of the Afghan Rubâb | Aga Khan Development Network. In: www.akdn.org. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  4. ^ Salar Nader: Salar Nader w / Kronos Quartet- Homayoun Sakhi - Abbos Kosimov. November 21, 2013, accessed July 10, 2016 .
  5. ↑ On the way - world music with Roger Willemsen. In: TwoTickets.de. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Sakhi, homayun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sakhi, homayoun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan rubab player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul