February 12, 2013 - New York's Carnegie Hall has hosted some of the greatest musicians in history. The group performing Tuesday night is perhaps the most unlikely ever to take the main stage. CBS News caught up with them when they performed in Washington.
Milad Yousufi grew up in war-torn Afghanistan, and though he didn't have a piano, he did have an imagination.
"I was drawing piano on the paper, and then I was playing it," Milad says.
There was no access to a piano, because the Taliban, who controlled Afghanistan for five years, banned all non-religious music, saying it was "un-Islamic."
"If they knew that you were listening to the music, probably they would kill you, because they did not like music," Milad says. read more>>>
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