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Homeyra
Parvaneh Amir-Afshari (; born March 17, 1945), better known by her stage name Homeyra (), is an Iranian singer. She is a veteran celebrity of golden age for Iranian music. According to her teacher, Ali Tajvidi her voice is from alto to soprano. Homeyra, with more than half a century of artistic activity, has a legendary popularity among the Iranian people. Early life Parvaneh Amir-Afshari was born on March 17, 1945, to an aristocratic Iranian family in Tehran, Iran. Her family is from Zanjan. From Homeyra's childhood, their house, in honor of influential people in the government, witnessed large ceremonies with the presence of famous artists of the time, such as Rouhangiz, Gholam-Hossein Banan, Moluk Zarrabi and many others, which was the initial motivation of the daughter of the family to sing. Due to her father's opposition to her daughter’s singing, she began her artistic career under the pseudonym Homeyra. But his father recognizes his daughter's voice, and since he consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homa Mirafshar
Homa Mirafshar (born February 23, 1937) is an Iranian poet and songwriter based in the United States. She is considered among the finest Persian lyricists in Iranian pop and traditional music. Iranian famous musicians such as Manoucher Cheshmazar and Mohammad Heydari have remarked on how well her poems integrate with rhythm and melody, and audiences have recognised these signature elements in her work. Childhood and Family Mirafshar was born in Tehran to the artistic Homayoun family. Homa calls her father her main motivator for her later achievements. She started composing poetry as a child in elementary school. She married Ali Mirafshar, the cousin of Iranian singer Homeyra Parvaneh Amir-Afshari (; born March 17, 1945), better known by her stage name Homeyra (), is an Iranian singer. She is a veteran celebrity of golden age for Iranian music. According to her teacher, Ali Tajvidi her voice is from alto to soprano. H ..., and Homa and Homeyra have collaborated on songs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parviz Yahaghi
Parviz Yahaghi (; September 23, 1935 – February 2, 2007) was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He resided in Tehran for practically his whole life, and was born and died there. Biography His birth name was Parviz Sedighi Parsi. He was musically educated primarily by his uncle Hossein Yahaghi, a violinist and violin teacher, from whom Parviz adopted the Yahaghi name. During his youth Parviz was exposed to many highly professional musicians in Tehran who were friends of his uncle. A notable visitor at his uncle's house was the violin teacher, composer, and musicologist Abolhasan Saba, who is credited with making improvements in violin playing technique in the Persian tradition. Saba published a two-volume training manual for the violin in 1944-45. Works Starting from about 20 years, Parviz Yahaghi was employed for a little over two decades as a musician with the Iranian government-financed radio station. In the 1960s and 1970s at the radio station he compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Shamaizadeh
Hassan Shamaizadeh (, also Romanized as Hasan-é Šamâ'izâde; born January 15, 1943, in Isfahan) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter and saxophonist. Over the past three decades, he composed songs for artists like Googoosh, Dariush, Moein, Ebi, Aref, Homeyra, Farhad and others. Career At the age of 13, Shamaizadeh already played in a theater orchestra isfahan. He then played in the Radio programs and Television in Tehran. He is noted for playing Persian music with quarter tones on the saxophone, which is a rare skill. In the 1960's, he was one of the first members of the popular Persian band Black Cats and played the saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ... for them. He continued to break record with artists like "Aghaaghi" from 1976. He was selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taraneh Records
Taraneh Records () is an Iranian-American record label based in Reseda, California. The label focuses on Iranian music. Taraneh Enterprises, Inc. (dba: Taraneh Records) is a major manufacturer and distributor of Persian Media (DVD, CD, VHS) in the United States. Taraneh Enterprises, Inc. has a large selection of old and new Iranian music CDs and movies on DVDs. Notable artists Artists and bands who have recorded with Taraneh Enterprises, Inc include: *Andranik Madadian *Andy & Kouros * Aref Arefkia *Bijan Mortazavi * Black Cats * Dariush Eghbali * Delkash * Ebi * Emad Ahmadi * Emad Ram * Faramarz Aslani * Fereydoon Forooghi *Fereydoun Farrokhzad *Gholam-Hossein Banan * Hassan Sattar * Hassan Shamaizadeh *Hayedeh * Homeyra *Leila Forouhar * Mansour * Martik * Marzieh * Maziar *Mahasti * Moein *Morteza Barjesteh * Omid Soltani * Pyruz *Pouya Jalili Pour *Shahram Shabpareh * Shahrum Kashani *Shohreh Solati * Siavash Ghomayshi * Siavash Shams * Susan Roshan * Viguen * Omid Jalili (co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caltex Records
Caltex Records () is an American record label and division of Caltex Music based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1980 by Iranian American immigrant Mehrdad Pakravan. The label focuses on Iranian music. In 1994, the label represented 75% of Persian musical artists in the world in part due to the exodus of musicians from Iran after the government banned popular music. Notable artists Artists and bands who have recorded with Caltex Records include: * Akbar Golpayegani * Andranik Madadian * Andy & Kouros * Aref Arefkia * Artashes Avetyan * Ayşegül Coşkun * Bijan Mortazavi * Black Cats * Dariush Eghbali * Delkash * Ebi * Faramarz Aslani * Fereydoun Farrokhzad * Gholam-Hossein Banan * Giti * Googoosh * Hassan Sattar * Hassan Shamaizadeh * Hayedeh * Homeyra * Kamran & Hooman * Kamyar * Kourosh Yaghmaei * Leila Forouhar * Mahasti * Mansour * Martik * Marzieh * Moein * Mohammad Nouri * Mohammadreza Shajarian * Mohammad-Reza Lotfi * Morteza Barjesteh * O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Tajvidi
Ali Tajvidi (; November 7, 1919 – March 15, 2006) was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University. He composed more than 150 songs and discovered and produced for many Persian performers such as Delkash and Hayedeh. He was born in Tehran, where his father was active as a painter in the style of Kamal-ol-Molk. In his youth he took violin lessons for two years under Hossein Yahaghi (uncle of Parviz Yahaghi) and for many years was under the tutelage of Abol-Hassan Saba for the violin as well.See biography of Ali Tajvidi at the Rouhollah Khaleghi Artistic CenterRKAC.com/ref> also took Harmony lessons under Houshang Ostovar. After 1941, having developed his violin technique considerably, Tajvidi performed regularly as a violin soloist in Radio Iran programs. In later years, he conducted two orchestras, for which he wrote numerous compositions. Asheqi Sheyda, Be Yad-e Saba, Atash-e Karevan, Didi ke Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Heydari
Mohammad Heidari (; December 23, 1937 – August 23, 2016) was a Persian Santoor (Persian instrument), santur player and songwriter. Career After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Mohammad Heidari left the country for Italy and a few years later moved to Los Angeles, where he continued his activities as a soloist and songwriter. Some of his nostalgic songs such asZahr-e Jodai andBahar Bahar (both performed by Hayedeh) became popular in the Persian community. Heyidari also has written the melody of other Persian hit songs such as Bia Benevisim' and Sobhet Bekheir Azizam'. Death Mohammad Heyidari died from cancer in a hospital in Los Angeles on 23 August 2016, aged 79. References * Akbarzadeh, P. "Persian Musicians" (Vol. 2), Roshanak Publications, Tehran, 2003. محمد حیدری آهنگساز 'وقتی میای صدای پات' درگذشتBBC Persian VOA * [http://www.bbc.com/persian/arts/2016/08/160825_l51_heydari_music_obit محمد حیدری؛ پیشگام در ت ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahanbakhsh Pazouki
Jahanbakhsh may refer to: *Alireza Jahanbakhsh Alireza Jahanbakhsh (, ; born 11 August 1993) is an Iranian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Winger, right winger and Midfielder, attacking midfielder for Dutch Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen and captain (ass ... (b. 1993), Iranian footballer * Babak Jahanbakhsh (b. 1983), Iranian singer, composer and musician. * Qaleh-ye Jahan Bakhsh, a village in Lorestan, Iran {{Dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (; 31 December 1898 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptians, Egyptian singer and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title (). Immensely popular throughout the Middle East and beyond, Umm Kulthum is a Egyptian nationalism, national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Giza pyramid complex, Fourth Pyramid". In 2023, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Umm Kulthum at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Her funeral in 1975 drew a crowd of over 4 million people, the largest human gathering in Egypt's history, even surpassing that of president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Biography Early life Umm Kulthum was born in the village of Tamay El Zahayra within the Subdivisions of Egypt#Municipal Divisions, markaz of El Senbellawein, Senbellawein, Dakahlia Governorate, to a family of a religious background. Her father, Ibrahim El-Sayyid El-Beltagi, was a rural imam, while her mother, Fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (, ), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (, ) was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions. The ousting of Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, formally marked the end of List of monarchs of Persia, Iran's historical monarchy. In 1953, the CIA- and MI6-backed 1953 Iranian coup d'état overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had nationalized the country's oil industry to reclaim sovereignty from British control. The coup reinstalled Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as an absolute monarch and entrenched Iran as a client state of the U.S. and UK. Over the next 26 years, Pahlavi consolidated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusion Music
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Music can be divided into genres in numerous ways, sometimes broadly and with polarity, e.g., popular music as opposed to art music or folk music, or, as another example, religious music and secular music. Often, however, classification draws on the proliferation of derivative subgenres, fusion genres, and microgenres that has started to accrue, e.g., screamo, country pop, and mumble rap, respectively. The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are often subjective and controversial, and some may overlap. As genres evolve, novel music is sometimes lumped into existing categories. Definitions Douglass M. Green distinguishes between genre and form in his book ''Form in Tonal Music''. He lists madr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Iran
Radio Iran () is the oldest radio station in Iran. It was established by order of Reza Pahlavi in the Kolah Ferangi mansion under the supervision of the Ministry of War on 1940. It is owned and operated by the government-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. History In 1924, preparations were made for the use of wireless in the Ministry of War. In 1926, wireless was introduced to Iran. From 1932, wireless institutions were developed, which eventually led to the creation of radio. The Council of Ministers approved the use of radio on October 2, 1934, and regulations were established that required the permission of the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones to install antennas and use radios. In 1937, the preparations for the establishment of a radio center were made by the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, and following this action, the Organization for Cultivating Thoughts was established. After constant delays, the German Telefunken sent the first radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
