Homayoun Sakhi is an Afghan-born player of the Afghan Rubab, an instrument of which he is considered a master.
Sakhi was born in 1976 in Kabul into a family of musicians; he learned to play the rubab from his father.
He moved to the United States in 2002 and lives in Fremont, California ("Little Kabul"), where he teaches Afghan music at a children's school he opened.
[6] Dawn Elder brought him together with Afghan singer Mahwash, with whom he formed the group Voices of Afghanistan.
[1] In a 2013 interview with NPR, Sakhi said he practiced between eight and twelve hours every day, inventing new techniques along the way.