Posted by BeautyandtheEast on 02-01-2010 | Comments | Share | Filed under: Entertainment, Music
Ahmad Zahir is the latest of NPR’s 50 Great Voices: influential singers around the world — living or dead, famous or not. Zahir was, and still is, the most famous singer in Afghanistan, often compared to Elvis. Like Elvis, the Afghan singer touched generations and kept his fan base for decades after he died in the 1970s.
Zahir’s rendition of Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never” :
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