Mangal (Pashto: منګل), born in Laghman Province, is a prominent Afghan singer who started in the early 1970s.
Mangal joined with a musician-turned-singer Naghma (Pashto: نغمه), a Pashtun from Kandahar Province of Afghanistan, and eventually married her.
There, they became very successful with an enthusiastic crowd of Afghan exiles who were nostalgic for their native music.
After establishing contact with the Afghan community of northern California, the duo held a series of performances.
[4] Their divorce has also cast a doubt as to whether this former pair can reconcile at least on the professional level.