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Zarsanga
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Zarsanga (; born 1946) is a Pakistani singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, primarily associated with Pashto folk music. She began her singing career singing for Radio Pakistan in Peshawar and some television programmes, and later went on to perform in Europe, the United States and the UAE. Her extensive career as a singer and performer has earned her the sobriquet "The Queen of Pashtun Folklore" and the Presidential Pride of Performance Award by the Government of Pakistan.

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Pakistan
Active from
1946

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,433
Total plays
8,895

Tags

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Zarsanga is a famous Pushtu singer widely known as The Queen Of Pashtun Folklore. She is known for her folk songs, desert arias, and mountainous gharhi (a type of Pashtu tapi) and has many popular songs to her credit. Being an illiterate shepherd from a gypsy family in Tank, Pakistan, she can not sing ghazals and thus concentrates on gharhi and folk songs which are popular among Pakhtoons. Zarsanga was born in 1946 at Zafar Mamakhel, a small village of Lakki Marwat in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa pro

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Key facts

Person.honorific_suffix
PP
Person.name
Zarsanga
Person.image
Zarsanga (cropped).jpg
Person.caption
Zarsanga in 2015
Person.native_name_lang
ps
Person.birth_date
1946
Person.birth_place
Lakki Marwat, North-West Frontier Province, British India
Person.other_names
"The Queen of Pashto Folklore"
Person.occupation
Singer
Person.years_active
1955–present
Musical artist.genre
Pashto folklore
Musical artist.label
Long DistanceCoke Studio

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Early life
  • Career
  • Personal life
  • Discography
  • Singles
  • Coke Studio
  • Contributing artist
  • Awards and honours
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Zarsanga (; born 1946) is a Pakistani singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, primarily associated with Pashto folk music. She began her singing career singing for Radio Pakistan in Peshawar and some television programmes, and later went on to perform in Europe, the United States and the UAE. Her extensive career as a singer and performer has earned her the sobriquet "The Queen of Pashtun Folklore" and the Presidential Pride of Performance Award by the Government of Pakistan.

==Early life== thumb|Zarsanga with their band in March 1991 at Hackney Empire in London

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