This episode we are down to our top 8 contestants. The episode starts with a beautiful Pashto performance with Afghan traditional music by the judge of the show Ariana Sayed. The line-up of performances tonight starts with Sahar Arian and ends with a performance by Rashed Aria. In tonight’s show the stars amaze the judges with their performances and Ashkan Arab who performs a song named “Badakhshan”, for the first ever time on the show gets a perfect 40 marks from the judges on his performance.

Mansoor Arian performs a Qataghani song, but this time he does not impress the judges. He earns the lowest marks of tonight’s show; however Ziba Hamidi the only Rap performer of this season performs a Rap from Bezhan Zafarmal and earns the highest marks this entire season.

Stay tuned next week to see who gets eliminated.

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