His fame began in the late 1950s, and since then he has produced many albums consisting of Pashto, Persian, and Urdu songs.
After his father was appointed by the National Bank of Karachi, he moved to British India where he lived without his mother.
[2] While staying in Chaman, near the border of Afghanistan, he went to a school where he experienced an important moment in his musical awakening.
[3] His family stressed to him the importance of religion as he hailed from the religious elite of the city of Kandahar, but according to Nashenas himself, his parents covertly approved and were proud of his singing talent.
[3] In the early 1970s, Nashenas traveled to the Soviet Union where he obtained his doctorate in Pashto Literature from Moscow State University.
In October 2023, Nashenas at the age of 88 made his first public performance in two decades at a venue in Beverwijk, the Netherlands.