Mohammad Hashem Cheshti

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
Origin Kabul, Afghanistan
Died 1994
Germany
Genres Klasik
Instruments Tabla

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti, also known with surname Chishti and as Ustad Hashem (Persian: استاد هاشم‎‎), was a contemporary classical musician and composer born in Kharabat area of Kabul,[1] Afghanistan, who died in 1994 in Germany under unclear circumstances.[1]


Ustad Hashem was born and raised in an extremely musical family, which originally came from Kasur in Punjab, but settled in the 19th century in Kabul as court musicians.[2][3] Several of his close family members, including his brothers and his father are/were also famous musicians in their own right.[2][3] Both he and his brothers appeared regularly on Afghan Television and Radio prior to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent wars.[2][4][5] He accompanied regularly other famous Afghan musicians like Ahmad Zahir and Ustad Mahwash on his tabla.[2][6]

He was the teacher and mentor of Ustad Mahwash,[2][7][8] the first Afghan female master musician and Zuleikha, a US American dancer and artist.[2][9][10][11] He mastered many different traditional Afghan instruments, but his greatest passion was for the tabla, his mastership of which was supreme.[1][2][12][13] Following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan he had to flee his home country[1][2] and emigrated to Germany where he died in 1994,[2] killed by one of his former students for reasons unknown.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.afghanland.com/entertainment/hashem.html
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2002/mar/11/artsfeatures.afghanistan
  3. 1 2 http://www.amc.org.uk/education/articles/shrines_of_afghanistan.htm
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeKK_zztZqQ
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTC7jPNOhZw
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0oUYY4sUeo
  7. ↑ http://www.volkskrant.nl/kunst/article316119.ece/Zangeres_van_de_vrijheid_in_bruisend_Kabul
  8. ↑ http://ustad_farida_mahwash.mondomix.com/en/portrait1012.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1990/9010070034.asp
  10. ↑ http://www.storydancer.com/index.php?page=performer
  11. ↑ http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/03/24/stories/2006032401950200.htm
  12. ↑ John Baily, "Music of Afghanistan: professional musicians in the city of Herat", Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN 0-521-25000-5
  13. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/mar/10/terrorism.september116
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