# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farhad-darya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:08.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farhad-darya"
name: "Farhad Darya"
slug: "farhad-darya"
description: "Farhad Darya is an Afghan singer, composer, music producer, and philanthropist. Active since the 1980s, Darya has been one of the most renowned and influential Afghan pop musicians of the modern era, contributing to establishing new wave in Afghanistan and blending urban and rural styles. Darya's career has spanned multiple genres - including semi-classical ghazal, pop, folk, and rock - as well as both his native languages Dari Persian and Pashto as well as Uzbek, Hindi and English."
tagline: "Afghan singer/writer/composer/philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Farhad_Darya_in_2010-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1962-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.15
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           12.38286933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3371916/"
    handle:    "nm3371916"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "فاراد داريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "ফরহাদ দারিয়া"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Darya"
    title: "Farhad Darya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Darya"
    title: "Farhad Darya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Darya"
    title: "Farhad Darya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "فرهاد دریا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "फ़रहाद दरया"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%ED%95%98%EB%93%9C_%EB%8B%A4%EB%A6%AC%EC%95%84"
    title: "파하드 다리아"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "فرهاد دریا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7"
    title: "فرهاد دريا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Darya"
    title: "Farhad Darya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D2%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8_%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%91"
    title: "Фарҳоди Дарё"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhod_Daryo"
    title: "Farhod Daryo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9310a5a5-6282-4b46-b21b-8c7b4278e055"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q741679"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump