What life is like for an Afghan Female Singer

Farida Tarana is an Afghan female singer; she is 27 years old, from Western province of Herat. She is one of the Afghan Star famous TV shows Participants.

Farida was the First Afghan female who attend to the Afghan Star TV show and present her songs on the stage.

Farida attend to the Afghan Start with other 2000 participates from allover Afghanistan. And success the best 12.

Farida Tarana saying the she selects to be a female singer in Afghanistan when she had only two options, become a singer with treat of losing her live or be alive but not a singer:

“ its really hard to say , my family lives in Iran my father, mother and sisters are in Iran and I am living here with one of my sister and her husband , when I attend the Afghan Star Process my family were in Iran , how ever I received many calls on my phone unknown people treated me to do not continue singing you’re an Afghan women and … but I doesn’t care on that and I never told to my family about it, till these unknown peoples called direct to my family in Iran and these treats increased day by day and due to that my mom got sick and she based to the hospital , then I seriously decide to do not continue more the Afghan Star in 12 best. my father came to Hirat and said that its enough we agreed with you to participate in this Process and become singer but now it’s the issue of your live, when my father said that it’s the issue of my life and die I said its ok if someone coming and for singing killing me then leave them to do that, and it become the main reason that I decide to continue”.

Farida Says that before attending the Show she understand about the limitations for Afghan females to sing a song on the TV shows , but she decide to participate in Afghan Start TV show that there be not any more Taboo for Afghan women’s:

“when you want to start any work then certainly you think about the negative and positive points , and I always understand that the negative point of attending to the Afghan Star Process for me as a women’s is more then the positive , but I accepted because Afghanistan is on the development process and everyone must build it from one way , its not correct to say that just we can rebuild our country only with politics or …I think singing specially for the women’s is more effective for the development of Afghan culture , because during several past decades the females in Afghan afraid for social working and my participation in Afghan Star become a Start and I believe that many other females will continue it “

Farida says that the only support that she had was from her family and encouraged her for achieving her target:

“ I would like to say very clearly that our close relatives rejects my decide to become a singer , but the only support that I had was from my own family that they always supported me and I believe without their support it was impossible for me, because my relatives like my uncle , aunt and others.. Reject”.