He sings primarily in Pashto, however he has also created songs in Urdu and Punjabi.

[1][2][3] Rahim Shah was born on 3 April 1975 in Karachi, Sindh to a Tirmizi syed Pashtun family, with his paternal roots in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

[1] In an interview he revealed that Rahim Shah is not his real name and, in fact, it is his elder brother's name.

[1][4] Rahim Shah's solo career began in the late 1990s with successful singles.

According to a major English-language newspaper in Pakistan, "Ghum is not Rahim Shah's personal composition.