caption genre years_active birth_place name birth_date alt residence spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
zarsanga pashto youth -- present laki marwat district , pukhtoonkhwa , pakistan . zarsângá 1946 zarsanga and her band nomad khan tahsil 1965 zarsanga.jpg zarsanga
 zarsanga singer
zarsanga

zarsanga is a famous pashto singer from khyber pakhtunkhwa , pakistan .
she is widely known as the queen of pashtun folklore .
she was born in 1946 at zafar mamakhel , a small village of lakki marwat .
she belongs to a nomadic tribe called kutanree -lrb- kutan -rrb- .
they travel between pashtun area from punjab and sindh .
they do n't settle permanently in one place .
their main profession is singing .
their main travelling route is through bannu road from dera ismail khan and up to kohat and peshawar .
some of them travel as far as afghanistan and stay there in summer and return to lakki marwat during the winter .
in 1965 , she married malla jan , a resident of sarai naurang , lakki marwat who was also a nomad .
many people believe she is married to popular folk singer khan tehsil , but she denies the rumours : `` actually i sang with him on many occasions and most of our joint songs got immense popularity .
he is not my husband he is just like my own brother '' .
zar sanga has four daughters and two sons .
only shahzada , her second son , has stepped into the world of music .
at the start of her career , zar sanga would listen to the songs of gulnar begum , kishwar sultan , bacha zarin jan , khial mohammad , ahmad khan and sabz ali ustad .
`` i liked all of them , but i have maintained my own traditional way of folk singing .
the people would earnestly enjoy my songs on both sides of the durand line -lrb- pakistan-afghan border -rrb- .
`` i got no education so i can not sing from a written paper .
most often i sing the songs that are composed and created by the common folk .
however my husband also wrote some of my popular songs '' , she said .
a french researcher , miss kia , who worked with radio france , once said zar sanga 's voice was the only mountainous voice in the pashto language .
miss kia took zar sanga to france for a musical concert .
in france , many people were fascinated by her sweet melodies .
the pashto singer described a concert in london : `` i was singing a traditional folk song in pashto about the mountains and gypsy life of the tribals and when i finished it , a british person came close to me and proudly remarked that he was also a gypsy . ''
the famous musical numbers of zar sanga , which she never misses at any musical event she plays are da bangriwal pa choli ma za -lrb- her first-ever song on radio -rrb- , zma da khro jamo yara , rasha mama zwi de , zma da ghrono pana yara , and kht me zanzeri de .
zar sanga has been to germany , belgium , iraq , dubai , america , france and uk and has enthralled thousands of pakhtuns and local people with her voice .
