Qais Essar | |
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![]() Essar in 2000 | |
Background information | |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument(s) | Rabab, santur |
Formerly of | Qosmonauts |
Qais Essar is an Afghan-American musician based in Phoenix, Arizona. [1] A rabab player and songwriter, he is most noted for the song "The Crown Sleeps", from the 2017 animated film The Breadwinner , which won the Best Original Song prize at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018. [2] He co-wrote the song with Joshua Hill, a bandmate in the now-defunct band Qosmonauts. [2] Essar often features instruments more familiar to Western music to complement the more traditional sound of the rabab and the santur in his compositions. [3]
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