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John Legend To Host ‘Afghan Star’ Podcast About Revolutionary Music Talent Format


EXCLUSIVE: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the Taliban, the series searched for talented singers before it was canceled when the Taliban regained power and banned music. The story of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. The eight-part series tells the story of Afghanistan’s cultural revolution told through the lens of the country’s first musical talent show. The series will explore how the talent competition inspired women singing without hijabs, the country’s first rapper, people of warring ethnic groups hugging and cheering for each other on stage and how a ragtag team scrambled to make the show every week, and the dangers they faced.

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