Maryam Khan was born in 1904 in the village of Dergul in the Botan region of Kurdistan. Despite many difficulties in his life, he has been able to maintain a high personality. One of the characteristics of Maryam Khan was that she always wore a headscarf. It should be noted that her method of headscarf has been common among the nomadic tribes of North and West Kurdistan and some areas of Sinjar since ancient times.
After the effects of World War I, the economic and social situation of the people of the region, she, like most people, left his homeland and migrated to Syria. She stayed in Damascus for a while and then in 1924 he moved to South Kurdistan and settled in Zakho.
When the Qawan Recording Company was established in Baghdad, Maryam Khani moved to the capital in the hope of recording her songs on the Qawan. She recorded her first gramaphone in 1930 under the name Domame.
Maryam Khan has filled 12 records that include Lorke Lorke, Gule Way Nar, Hey Barde Barde, Lele Waso, Gula Sheni Sheni, Yar Halime, Mohammed Roni, Lele Eme, Le Daye, Lolo Swaro, Ay Dalal and Zambil Frosh.
With this, she became the first Kurdish singer to record songs in the Kurdish dialect of Kurmanji. Maryam Khan has sung thirteen folk songs, six national and revolutionary songs and fifteen love songs.
In addition to the songs she recorded on the bow, she also recorded a large number of other songs on Baghdad radio and at parties, some of which are still sung by singers. According to Kamili Kaka Min, the first announcer of Kurdish Radio Baghdad, Maryam Khan joined Kurdish broadcasting in 1942.
Maryam Khan had a good relationship with the singers of Baghdad station, especially Hasso Jaziri, Jamal's mother, Almas Khan, Ramazan Jaziri, Ali Mardan, etc. She also sang with other artists such as Mohammed Arif Jaziri, Hassan Jaziri, and Almas Mohammed.
Despite the memories told by artists and contemporaries of Maryam Khan, many aspects of the artist's comprehensive life remain unknown that require further field research and interpretation.
In 1949, Maryam Khan suffered from kidney disease and died in July of the same year at Mir Elias Hospital in Baghdad. She was buried in Sheikh Marf Cemetery.[1]