Mohammad Hashem Cheshti Explained

Mohammad Hashem Cheshti
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Death Date:1994
Death Place:Germany
Origin:Kabul, Afghanistan
Instrument:Tabla
Genre:Klasik

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 a 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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Afghanland.com Afghanistan Ustad Hashem. Afghanland.com.
  2. Web site: Cry freedom: the story of singer Farida Mahwash. John. Baily. 11 March 2002. Theguardian.com.
  3. Web site: Asian Music Circuit | Education | Specialist Articles . 2009-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090105220015/http://www.amc.org.uk/education/articles/shrines_of_afghanistan.htm . 2009-01-05 .
  4. Web site: Tabla of Ustad Hashem & Ustad Asef تبله استاد هاشم و استاد آصف. Thunder004. 13 December 2008. YouTube.
  5. Web site: Ustad Hashem Rag استاد هاشم - راگ. Thunder004. 29 December 2008. YouTube.
  6. Web site: AHMAD ZAHIR with Lyrics مجلسی تبله استاد هاشم. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/V0oUYY4sUeo. 2021-12-12 . live. PEACE MAKER 007. 25 October 2007. YouTube.
  7. Web site: VK Home. https://archive.today/20120914164404/http://www.volkskrant.nl/kunst/article316119.ece/Zangeres_van_de_vrijheid_in_bruisend_Kabul. dead. 2012-09-14.
  8. Web site: Ustad Farida Mahwash ||| Portrait - Mondomix . 2009-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100106144921/http://ustad_farida_mahwash.mondomix.com/en/portrait1012.htm . 2010-01-06 .
  9. http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1990/9010070034.asp
  10. Web site: Storydancer. Storydancer.
  11. Web site: The Hindu : Friday Review Delhi / Dance : Millions of dancing cells . 2009-05-23 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20071111173826/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/fr/2006/03/24/stories/2006032401950200.htm . 2007-11-11 .
  12. John Baily, "Music of Afghanistan: professional musicians in the city of Herat", Cambridge University Press 1988,
  13. Web site: My world changed forever: life after 9/11. 10 March 2002. Theguardian.com.

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