Raheem Ghamzada (Pashto: رحيم غمزده), was a prominent Pashto-language poet and singer in the 1970s until his death in 2011 due to cancer.
[1] Ghamzada was the first singer to use both eastern and western tunes when composing Pashto folk music.
Ghamzada worked for 60 years in the music branch of Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA).
His collection of poems, titled Pashto (زما ښکلی جانانه), was compiled and published by Lal Pacha Azmoon, a professor at Kabul University.
He wrote classical poetry, blended it with recent innovations, and introduced new ideas in Pashto.