Rafiq Shinwari

{{Infobox musical artist

|name =Mohammad Rafiq Shinwari
{{lang|ps|محمد رفیق شینواری}}

|background = solo_singer

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|genre = Ghazals
Classical music

|occupation = Singer & Composer

|years_active =

|label = Various

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Mohammad Rafiq Shinwari ({{langx|ps|محمد رفیق شینواری}}) was a singer and composer of Pashto music. Though he also tried his luck with Pashto poetry and wrote a few poems as well but it was his compositions for early Pashto movies that earned him a big name in this field.

A disciple of Abdul Sattar Bacha, he was brought to Bacha's abode by his mother as a child in late 1940s from Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Rafiq Shinwari started his career as a Qawali singer of Radio Pakistan Peshawar Studio in 1961. Subsequently he became a household name among the Pashtun population of both Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1970s and 1980s. He primarily sang the Sufi Poetry of Ameer Hamza Shinwari and Rahman Baba. Himself a Sufi by heart, Ustad Shinwari used to sing in a rare husky voice, which would leave his audience in a state of trance. As a music director some of his Pashto movies include Orbal, Ehsan, Qaidi, Dameena, Topak Zama Qanoon, Iqrar, Naway Da Yawai Shpai, and Khana Badosh.{{cite news| url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3073684/|title=Some famous movies as a Composer.}}

Out of his two sons, namely, Shaifq and Ghulam Ali, the later committed suicide in 1988 for unknown reasons.{{cite news| url=http://www.khyber.org/people/celebs/RafiqShinwariLoyeFanqarNimgarh.shtml| archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917101531/http://www.khyber.org/people/celebs/RafiqShinwariLoyeFanqarNimgarh.shtml| url-status=usurped| archive-date=September 17, 2012|title=A Biography of Rafiq Shinwari in Pashto.}}

In 2004, the Rafiq Shinwari Ulasi award was established in his honour.{{cite news| url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-4694983_ITM|title=Azam terms artistes as national assets. | date=September 7, 2004|work=PPI - Pakistan Press International| accessdate=2009-08-29}}