Davlatmand Kholov
Davlatmand Kholov Давлатманд Холов | |
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Background information | |
Born | 26 October 1950 |
Origin | Kulob, Khatlon Region, Tajik SSR, USSR |
Died | 18 February 2024 Dushanbe, Tajikistan | (aged 73)
Genres | Traditional Tajik music, Falak, Shashmaqam |
Occupation(s) | singer |
Instrument(s) | Rubob, tor |
Davlatmand Kholov (Tajik: Давлатманд Холов; 26 October 1950 – 18 February 2024) was a Tajik musician and singer from Kulob. He was an expert in the southern folk genre of Tajik music called Falak (lit. "the firmament"). A multi-instrumentalist, trained in Shashmaqam at the Conservatory of Music in Dushanbe, he was well-known for his works on the two-string dutar, ghijak, and setar which are popular instruments in Central Asia.
Kholov played and sang poetry of the Sufi poets, mainly Jalaleddin Rumi; Davlatmand's outlook was close to Rumi's poetry and philosophy. He also belonged to the post-Soviet nationalist school of thought, or was influenced by "Tajikisation", therefore turning his back on Tajik shashmaqam. This can be displayed through his works: Sawt-i Falak or "The Voices of Falak", where he creates European symphonic settings to tell tales of Tajik life and rural practices.[1] He released the album Learned & Folk Music on 9 January 1996.[2]
Kholov died on 18 February 2024, at the age of 73 from cancer.[3][4]
References
- ^ Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia - Laudan Nooshin (2009)
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r327855
- ^ Скончался Давлатманд Холов (in Russian)
- ^ دولتمند خالف درگذشت (in Persian)
External links
- BBC Persian (in Cyrillic alphabet)
- Charkh-o-Falak, a documentary on Davlatmand and his music
- Davlatmand Kholov discography at Discogs
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