Music and Afghanistan have been an uneasy relationship in recent years. During the years that the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and that now they are ruling, music is forbidden.

During the first period of the Taliban regime Music cassettes and instruments were routinely destroyed.

After the downfall of the Taliban, music returned, but the stigma the Taliban had associated with songs has not been an easy one to erase. Still, musicians there are trying to return to the glory days of Afghan music. Those glory days in Afghanistan, like a lot of great pop music around the globe were in the 1960s and '70s.

One the most talented and my all time favourite Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir is counted as one of the artiest who changed and return the glory days of afghan music industry.

Afghanistan's psychedelic folk master Ahmad zahir died in 1979, but ask any Afghan around the globe today about him, and it's like referring to Elvis.

Ahmad Zahir was a singer, songwriter, and composer. He is widely considered an icon of Afghan music and is called the "King of Afghan music" because of the change that he brought to the Afghan music industry and his wonderful songs. His songs are mostly in Dari and based on well-recognized Persian poems, although a few are in Pashto and English. Zahir composed and performed rock and pop music, in a similar style to Elvis Presley. Today, he is regarded as one of the greatest persons in Afghan culture and history.