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) musicians and musical groups.

Classical

Persian classical/traditional

Mirza Abdollah Mirza Abdollah, also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani (‎; 1843–1918), was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history. Born in Shiraz, he and his younger brother Mirza Hossein-Qoli started learn ...

* Maryam Akhondy * Nematollah Aghasi *

Salar Aghili Salar Aghili (, ; born 2 December 1977), known by his full name Mir Salar Moslemi Aghili, is a classical and Persian traditional singer.روزنامهٔ ایران �/ref> (). His spouse, Harir Shariat–Zadeh is a Persian musician who plays p ...

Azam Ali Azam Ali () is an Iranian musician. As of 2013, she has released ten albums with the bands VAS, Roseland, and Niyaz, as well as five solo records. Biography Born in Tehran on 3 October 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, In ...

Hossein Alizadeh Hossein Alizadeh (; born August 24, 1951) is an Iranian musician, composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser. He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohamm ...

* Hossein Khajeh Amiri (Iraj) * Aref Ensemble * Davood Azad *

Pejman Azarmina Pejman Azarmina (Persian: پژمان آذرمینا, born in 1973) is an Iranian-American scholar, entrepreneur, musician and thinkocrat. After 15 years of pursuing a career in the pharmaceutical industry (most of which being at Pfizer), he join ...

Gholam-Hossein Banan Gholām-Hossein Banān (; 5 May 1911 – 27 February 1986) was an Iranian musician and singer. One of the most prominent Iranian singers of the 20th century, he was renowned for the quality of his voice. Biography Born in Tehran, Banān descend ...

* Iraj Bastami * Hossein Behroozinia *

Sima Bina Sima Bina (, ''Simā Binā'', born 4 January 1945) is an Iranian traditional musician, composer, researcher, painter and teacher, described by Radio WDR Germany as the "grand lady of Iranian folk music". Bina's performing arts career has spanne ...

* Delkash *

Chemirani Ensemble The Chemirani ensemble is a notable Persian classical music ensemble. The group is made of Chemirani family: *Bijan Chemirani *Djamchid Chemirani *Keyvan Chemirani *Maryam Chemirani In 1988, the Chemirani Trio (Bijan, Keyvan and Jamshid) was bo ...

* Mehdi Bozorgmehr * Alireza Eftekhari * Nur Ali Elahi *

Reza Ghassemi Reza Ghassemi (; born 1949) is an Iranian novelist and musician. Life and career Ghassemi was born in 1949 in the city of Isfahan, Iran. In addition to writing, he plays Iranian classical music and the Persian Lute, known as the Setar. He h ...

Akbar Golpayegani Akbar Golpayegani (; 30 January 1934 – 4 November 2023), also known as Golpa (), was an Iranian traditional singer. Life and career Born in Tehran, Golpayegani started his musical training in 1951. At 14 he had his first experience in a ch ...

Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi (; born 23 June 1975 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian musician and composer. Life and career Goorangi started playing piano and the dulcimer (the Santour) at a young age. He gained his first musical experie ...

Shusha Guppy Shushā Guppy (; née Shamsi Assār (; 24 December 1935 – 21 March 2008) was a writer, editor and a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She lived in London from the early 1960s, until her death in 2008. Early life Her father, Sayyed M ...

Hamavayan Ensemble Hamāvāyān Ensemble () is a Persian music group. History Led by Iranian instrumentalist and composer Hossein Alizadeh, the Hamavayan Ensemble performs new interpretations of classical Persian music. The ensemble features male and female vocal ...

Hayedeh Ma'soumeh Dadehbala (; April 10, 1942 – January 20, 1990), known professionally as Hayedeh (, ), was an Iranian singer with a contralto vocal range. Known for her wide range of voice, her career spanned over two decades, and she has been widely ...

Parvaz Homay Parvaz Homay (; born 9 February 1980) is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his birth name Saeid Jafarzadeh Ahmadsargurabi (), he is the founder and leader of the ...

Sa'id Hormozi Ostad Sa'id Hormozi () (1898–1976) was an Iranian musician who is remembered for his efforts to "promote authentic Iranian music" and pass it to modern musicians. He was born in one of the old neighborhoods of Tehran called Sangalaj. He was a p ...

Mirza Hossein-Qoli Mirza Hossein-Qoli (‎; 1853–1916), also known as ''Agha Mirza Hosseingholi Farahani'', was a musician and tar player of the Qajar era. He and his older brother Mirza Abdollah started learning music Music is the arrangement of sound ...

Kayhan Kalhor Kayhan Kalhor (, born on 24 November 1964) is an Iran, Iranian Kurds, Kurdish kamancheh and setar player, and a vocal composer. He has received three Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album nominations. Kalhor has also earned two nom ...

The Kamkars The Kamkars (, ) is a Kurdish Iran musical family group of seven brothers and a sister, all from the city of Sanandaj, the capital of the Kurdistan province of Iran. The group has performed numerous concerts around the world, including their per ...

Darvish Khan Darvish Khan (, Gholam Hossein Darvish; 1872 – 22 November 1926) was a Persian classical musician and a tar player.http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news.aspx?id=44944 Biography Darvish Khan was born in Tehran. His teachers included his father a ...

Ruhollah Khaleghi Ruhollah Khaleqi ( ; 1906 – 12 November 1965) was a prominent Iranian composer, conductor and author. He is best known for composing the patriotic song " Ey Iran". He was the father of Golnoush Khaleghi—Iran's first female conductor. Ea ...

Fariborz Lachini Fariborz Lachini (; born August 25, 1949) is an Iranian film score composer. Career He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attention of the royal family of the ...

Lian Ensemble Lian Ensemble is a Persian classical music ensemble based in Los Angeles, California, USA. History The Lian Ensemble was established in 1996 by Pirayeh Pourafar, Houman Pourmehdi. The group has performed throughout the U.S. and internationally. ...

* Mohammad Reza Lotfi * Javad Maroofi * Marzieh * Mastan Ensemble * Moein *

Mahasti Eftekhar Dadehbala (; November 16, 1946 – June 25, 2007), known by her stage name Mahasti (), was an Iranian singer of Persian classical, folk, and pop music with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. She was active for more than four decades. Early ...

* Rokneddin Mokhtari * Mohammad Motamedi * Hamid Motebassem *

Shahram Nazeri Shahram Nazeri (, ; born 18 February 1950) is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish origin from Kermanshah, Iran, who sings Sufi music, classical and traditional Kurdish and Persian music. He has been accompanied by some of the masters of Ira ...

Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh (also spelt Nourbakhsh) is a Music of Iran, Persian classical vocalist and musician. Career He studied Iranian classical music under the supervision of Mohammad Reza Shajarian and has performed with several music ensemble ...

* Hossein Omoumi *

Parisa Fātemeh Vā'ezi (, born March 16, 1950, in Tonekabon, Iran), better known as Parisā (), is a Iranian traditional music, Persian classical singer, Avaz (music), Avaz master, and one of the foremost female vocalists from Iran. Early life and m ...

Faramarz Payvar Master Farâmarz Pâyvar (, ; 10 February 1933 – 9 December 2009) was an Iranian composer and santur player. Payvar died on 9 December 2009 after a long struggle with brain damage. Although once perceived as marginal, the santur is now cons ...

* Iraj Rahmanpour *

Mehdi Rajabian Mehdi Rajabian (; born October 1989) is an Iranian composer and musician. He was imprisoned for pursuing illegal musical activities in 2013 and 2015. In 2019, he released the album ''Middle Eastern'' in collaboration with a number of other Middl ...

* Afsaneh Rasaei * Anoushiravan Rohani *

Reza Rohani Reza Rohani (; born October 31, 1977) is an Iranian pianist and composer. He is the son of Iranian composer Anoushiravan Rohani. He was one of the judges in the Iranian television reality music competition, ''Stage'' on Manoto. Early life R ...

Ezzat Rouhbakhsh Ezzat Rouhbakhsh (1908–1989; ), was an Iranian singer. She was known for her radio performances of Persian traditional music. Biography Ezzat Rouhbakhsh was born in 1908, in the city of Ashtian in Markazi province, Qajar Iran (now Iran). A ...

Abolhasan Saba Abolhasan Saba (; April 15, 1902 – December 19, 1957) was a renowned Iranian composer, violinist, and setar player. Biography He was born in Tehran to Abul Qasim Khan ''Kamal ol-Saltaneh'', son of Mohammad Jafar Khan ''Sadr ol-Hekma'', son of ...

* Bardia Sadrenoori * Dariush Safvat * Shahin Shahbazi * Abdolvahab Shahidi *

Jalil Shahnaz Jalil Shahnaz (22 May 1921 – 17 June 2013; Persian: جلیل شهناز) was a Persian classical music musician and a virtuoso of the Persian musical instrument, tar. Biography Jalil Shahnaz was born in 1921 in Isfahan, Persia (Iran). Sha ...

Ali-Akbar Shahnazi Ali-Akbar Shahnazi (‎; 12 May 1897 – 17 March 1985) was an Iranian musician and a master player of the tar instrument. Biography Ali Akbar Shahnazi was born in Tehran, Qajar Iran The Guarded Domains of Iran, alternatively the Subl ...

Homayoun Shajarian Homayoun Shajarian (, born 21 May 1975) is an Iranian singer. Homayoun is the son of Iranian singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, He learned singing from his father and started his musical career in the 1990s. Early life Shajarian was born in Te ...

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (; , 23 September 1940 – 8 October 2020) was an Iranian singer and master (''Ostad'') of Persian traditional music. He was also known for his skills in Persian calligraphy and humanitarian activities. Shajarian started ...

* Shams Ensemble *

Farhang Sharif Farhang Sharif (; – 7 September 2016) was an Iranian musician and renowned tar player.HAMSHAHRI

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* Haj Ghorban Soleimani *

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 ...

* Dariush Talai *

Hossein Tehrani Hussein, Hossein, Hussain, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein, Hussin, Hoessein, Houcine, Hocine or Husain (; ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N (), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", "handsome" or ...

* Ali Zand Vakili *

Alinaghi Vaziri Ali-Naqi Vaziri (; October 1, 1886 in Tehran – September 9, 1979) was a composer, thinker and a celebrated player of the tar. He is considered a revolutionary icon in the history of 20th-century Persian music. His name was also transcribed a ...

* Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri * Mortezâ Varzi *

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. ...

* Amir Abbas Zare *

Hasan Zirak Hassan Zirek (; 29 November 1921 – 26 June 1972) was a Kurdish singer-songwriter, known for his recordings of classical Kurdish folk songs. He was famous for his classical and sensual lyrics, and it is believed that he composed over thousand so ...

Jalal Zolfonun Jalaal Zulfonun (, ; 7 March 1938 – 18 March 2012) was an Iranian musician, Setar (lute), setaar player, and a prominent composer and teacher of Persian traditional music, Persian music. Collaboration with Maurice Béjart He has also collabora ...

* Mahmoud Zolfonun * Zyriab

Modern/traditional

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* Chaartaar *

Zohreh Jooya Zohreh Jooya () is a singer from Mashhad, Iran. Music career Jooya's father was an Afghan (from Herat, Afghanistan) and her mother was an Iranian and they married at a time when it was criminal for an Afghan man to marry an Iranian woman. Zohre ...

* Mohammad Nouri *

Niyaz Niyaz () is an Iranian Canadian musical duo. The group was created in 2004 by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Ali's husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, ...

Ramin Rahimi Ramin Rahimi () is a percussionist and songwriter. His music mostly focused on drums and Iranian Percussions Daf and Tombak. he is also one of the members of power metal act Angband. Biography Born 1969 in Tehran, Rahimi worked with Tehran S ...

* Hangi Tavakoli * Roseland * Shanbehzadeh Ensemble * Vas

Western classical / Persian symphonic

Habibollah Badiee Habibollah Badiee (; 1933–1992) was an Iranian musician, singer, and composer. He was known for combining Western-style classical violin and Iranian symphonic music. Badiee was considered one of the masters of his generation of Iranian music. ...

Hossein Dehlavi Hossein Dehlavi () (September 30, 1927 – October 15, 2019) was an Iranian composer. Biography Hossein Dehlavi was born in 1927 in Tehran, Iran and started music with his father Moezeddin Emami who was a pupil of master Ali-Akbar Shahnazi. Deh ...

Farhad Fakhreddini Farhad Fakhreddini (; born 11 March 1938 in Gədəbəy, Azerbaijan) is a renowned Iranian composer, conductor and founder of Iran's National Orchestra. He led Iran's Radio and Television Orchestra from 1973 to 1979. Fakhreddini has compose ...

Hormoz Farhat Hormoz Farhat (; 9 August 1928 – 16 August 2021) was a Persian-American composer and ethnomusicologist who spent much of his career in Dublin, Ireland. An emeritus professor of music, he was a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Described by ...

* Cyrus Forough *

Morteza Hannaneh Morteza Hannaneh (; 1 March 1923 – 17 October 1989) was an Iranian composer and musician. He composed for some movies, such as '' Fleeing the Trap'' in 1971. Musical career Hannaneh studied Horn at the Tehran Conservatory and basic compositio ...

* Aminollah Hossein *

Mehdi Hosseini Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami (born July 10, 1979; Persian: سید مهدی حسینی بمی) is a Persian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Hosseini was born in Tehran, Iran, and received his master's degree and Doctor of Music ...

Ramin Karimloo Ramin Karimloo (; ; born ) is a Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter known for his work on the West End theatre, West End and Broadway theatre, Broadway theatre. He has played the leading roles in both of the West End's longest running musica ...

* Hooman Khalatbari *

Parviz Mahmoud Parviz Mahmoud (1910 – 1996) was an Iranian composer and conductor. He was the founder of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in its modern form. His father Mahmoud Mahmoud (Pahlavi) was a famous Persian writer, researcher and politician. he is s ...

* Fouzieh Majd *

Lotfi Mansouri Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri (15 June 1929 – 30 August 2013) was an Iranian-born opera director and manager. His directing career began in around 1960. He is best known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the S ...

Alireza Mashayekhi Alireza Mashayekhi (; born 1940) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and academic. He is one of the first composers in Iran to represent avant-garde and electroacoustic music. Early life and education Mashayekhi was born in Tehran in 194 ...

* Nader Mashayekhi * Kayvan Mirhadi * Idin Samimi Mofakham *

Bijan Mortazavi Bijan Mortazavi (; born November 16, 1957) is an Iranian virtuoso violinist, musician, composer, songwriter, arranger and singer. Biography Musical education Born in the city of Juybar, Iran. Mortazavi studied music in Tehran. He was trained ...

* Alireza Motevaseli * Reza Najfar *

Anousha Nazari Anousha Nazari (Persian language, Persian: آنوشا نظری) is an Iranian mezzo-soprano Opera, classical singer born on January 6 in Sari, Iran, Sari, Iran. Biography Nazari began singing in local orchestras before joining the :fa:ارکس� ...

Ahmad Pejman Ahmad Pejman ( ; born 1935), also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, is an Iranian contemporary classical composer who resides in the United States. Pejman is notable for his works in opera, symphonies, and music for film. Biography Born in 1935 in Lar, ...

* Houshang Ostovar * Ali Rahbari *

Behzad Ranjbaran Behzad Ranjbaran (; born 1955, in Tehran, Iran) is a Persian composer, known for his virtuosic concertos and colorful orchestral music. Ranjbaran's music draws from his cultural roots, incorporating Persian musical modes and rhythms. Life and car ...

* Anoushiravan Rohani * Arshia Samsaminia * Heshmat Sandjari * Hangi Tavakoli *

Loris Tjeknavorian Loris Haykasi Tjeknavorian (; ; born 13 October 1937) is an Iranian Armenian composer and conductor. He has appeared internationally as a conductor, serving as the principal conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1989 to 1998 and ...

Reza Vali Reza Vali () is an Iranian musician and composer. Life and education Vali was born in Qazvin in 1952 and studied at the Tehran Conservatory. In 1972, he attended the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he studied. He later a ...

* Saman Samadi * Samin Baghtcheban * Soheil Nasseri * Sadegh Nojouki *

Shahrdad Rohani Shahrdad Rohani, also known as Shardad Rohani (; born 27 May 1954), is an Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary and he is well known for composing and conducting classical, instrumental, adult cont ...

Pop

Singers

Afshin Afshin () is a common Persian language, Persian given name derived from Avestan. Afshin was used by the Sogdians. Historically, it was the title of the rulers of Principality of Ushrusana in Transoxiana before the Muslim conquest of Persia.. Etym ...

Afshin Moghaddam Afshin Moghaddam (, 30 September 1945 – 23 July 1976), born Hossein Ahanian Moghaddam, was an Iranian singer. He was best known for his song "Zemestoun (''Winter'')", which came 79th in Manoto 1's "100 Greatest Iranian Songs of All-Time" cha ...

Ali Abdolmaleki Ali Abdolmaleki (; born 17 August 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian pop music, Iranian pop singer, songwriter, composer and arranger. He made several hit songs at a young age. He contributes as one of the leading Iranian pop music composers. Albums ...

* Ali Lohrasbi * Ali Pahlavan *

Alireza Assar Alireza Assar (; born January 24, 1970 in Tehran) is an Iranian musician and Persian pop singer and composer, and piano and guitar player. Biography The oldest child of a four-member family in Tehran, He studied the piano under the supervision ...

* Alireza Talischi * Andy *

Arash Arash the Archer () is a heroic archer-figure of Iranian mythology. According to Iranian folklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched by Arash, after he put his own life in the arrow's launch. The arrow was tra ...

* Aref * Babak Jahanbakhsh *

Benyamin Bahadori Benyamin Bahadori () is an Iranian pop singer, composer, songwriter and actor. from Tehran, Iran. His first album,"85" released in 2006, was a massive commercial success within Iran and with the Iranian diaspora abroad. Also known as his stage n ...

Dariush Dariush (), also spelled Darioush, Daryoush, or Daryoosh, is a Persian-language masculine given name. It is composed of () and (), meaning ''holding firm the good''. Within the Achaemenid dynasty, three rulers of the Persian Empire held the n ...

* Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi) * Ehsan Khajeh Amiri * Elaheh * Faramarz Asef * Faramarz Aslani *

Farhad Farhad ( ''farhād''), also spelt Ferhaad, Ferhod or Ferhat, is a common Persian name for men used since the Parthians, first recorded for Arsacid kings circa 170 BC. Variants of the name are also commonly found in other countries with historica ...

* Farman Fathalian *

Farzad Farzin Farzad Farzin (; born 24 June 1981 in Tehran, Iran

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is an Iranian singer, songwriter, arranger, and actor. Career Early years Farzad was one of the founders and original band member of the Corouz Group in 2001. He left the ...

* Farzane Zamen * Fereydoon Forooghi *

Fereydoun Farrokhzad Fereydoun Farrokhzad (; October 7, 1936 – August 7, 1992) was an Iranian showman, host, poet, actor, political activist, singer, humanitarian, and writer. He is best known for his television variety show, ''The Silver Carnation'', which introdu ...

Googoosh Faegheh Atashin (; born 5 May 1950), known professionally as Googoosh (, ), is an Iranian singer and former actress. Regarded as a pop icon, she is one of the most popular and prolific entertainers in Iran, and her career has spanned over six de ...

(Faegheh Atashin) *

Habib Habib (; ; also romanized as Habeeb) is an Arabic masculine given name, occasional surname, and honorific, with the meaning "beloved" or "my love", or "darling". It also forms the famous Arabic word ''"Habibi"'' which is used to refer to a friend ...

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, ...

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 ...

* Hooshmand Aghili * Javad Yasari *

Kouros Shahmiri Kouros Shahmiri (), also known by the mononym "Kouros" (Persian: ), is an Iranian–American pop singer, best known for being part of the pop duo Andy & Kouros with Andranik Madadian (Andy). Andy and Kouros released four albums together: ''Khas ...

Kian Pourtorab Kian Pourtorab (); is a singer, songwriter, composer and musician from Iran. He is also known as the founder and lead singer of :fa:کامنت (گروه موسیقی), Comment Band, an alternative rock band in Iran. The band stopped activities ...

* Laleh *

Leila Forouhar Leila Forouhar (, ''Leilâ Foruhar''; born 23 February 1959) is a Persian pop and classical singer. She was a child star, acting from the age of 3. She relocated to next door Turkey in 1986, then to Paris, before emigrating to Los Angeles in 1988 ...

* Mahvash *

Majid Akhshabi Majid Akhshabi (, born January 16, 1973), is an Iranian Santurist and Persian Pop singer. Majid Akhshabi became famous in 2001 by singing in the credits of the TV series Lost. Akhshabi appeared in series and programs such as Hamraz, Aruj, Mehtab ...

* Majid Razavi * Mansour * Marjan * Martik * Maziar * Mehdi Yarrahi * Mehrnoosh * Moein *

Mohammad Esfahani Mohammad Mahdi Vaezi Esfahani (; born 5 July 1966), better known as Mohammad Esfahani, is an Iranian Persian pop and traditional singer. He graduated from The Medical Sciences University of Iran in 1997, while learning Iranian music from t ...

Mohsen Chavoshi Mohsen Chavoshi Hosseini ( (); born 30 July 1979) is an Iranian musician, singer, record producer and songwriter, based in Tehran. He has released ten albums, including a soundtrack to the 2007 film ''Santouri''. Early life Chavoshi was born in ...

* Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh * Mohsen Yeganeh * Morteza *

Morteza Pashaei Morteza Pashaei (; 11 August 1984 – 14 November 2014) Morteza Pashaei was an Iranian pop singer, musician, and composer. Born and raised in Tehran, Pashaei studied graphic design and had been interested in music since his childhood, when he b ...

* Nematollah Aghasi * Omid Hajili * Pooran * Pouya Kolahi * Pouya Pourjalil * Pyruz * Roozbeh Azar * Rana Mansour * Reza Sadeghi *

Roya Arab Roya Arab (born 1967) is a British musician and archaeologist. Born in Tehran, she is an exile of the Iranian Revolution. Early life and education Roya Arab was born in Tehran, Iran. She attended Maktabe Tarbiat school in Tehran, while also stu ...

* Sahar *

Sami Beigi Saman Es'hagh Beigi (; born November 22, 1982) known as Sami Beigi () is an Iranian singer and songwriter currently living in Irvine, California, United States. In an interview with "Zarebin" and "Voice of Farsi", he mentioned that he was raised ...

Sami Yusuf Sami Yusuf (born 21 July 1980) is an Iranian-British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer of Azerbaijani descent. He gained international attention with the release of his debut album, ''Al-Muʽallim'', in 2003. As of 2020, ...

Sasy Sasan Yafteh (; born 11 November 1988), better known by his stage name, Sasy (), formerly known as Sasy Mankan (), is an Iranian pop & hip hop singer-songwriter from Ahvaz. Reuters has described him as one of Iran's most famous underground sing ...

Sattar Sattar or Settar () is a male Muslim given name and surname. It occurs in the compound form *Abdul Sattar, where further details can be found. People with the name in its simple form include: Given name *Sattar (singer) (born 1949) birth name ...

* Sepideh * Shadmehr Aghili *

Shahkar Bineshpajooh Shahkar Bineshpajooh (; born 13 December 1972, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian poet, translator, composer, and singer. Bineshpahjooh has performed with orchestras in Europe and North America and translated works from Pablo Neruda and Bertolt Brec ...

Shahram Shabpareh Shahram Shabpareh (; born February 6, 1948) is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter. Career He started his career as a drum player in the early 1960s when he was 13. In the mid-1960s at the age of 17, he formed a band of his own named "Rebels". ...

* Shahram BozorgMehr *

Shahrum Kashani Shahram Kashani or Shahrum Kashani (; 1971 – 28 July 2021) was an Iranian pop singer. He released eight albums with notable hits. Biography Music Kashani's interest in singing and music manifested at an early age. He started his career in 199 ...

* Shakila *

Shohreh Solati Fatemeh Solati Nayebi (, born January 4, 1959), better known by her stage name Shohreh (), is an Iranian singer. Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, she has continued her music career in exile. Life and career Shohreh Solati was born in Teh ...

* Siavash Ghomayshi *

Siavash Shams Siavash Shams () (also known as Siavash Sahneh () due to his hit song ''Sahneh'') (born 17 January 1963) is an Iranian singer, songwriter, record producer. He rose to fame in the late 80s after his songs ''Sahne''h ("Stage") and ''Dokhtar Iroon ...

* Sirvan Khosravi *

Susan Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew ''shoshan'', meaning ''lotus flower'' in Egyptian, original derivation, and severa ...

* Susan Roshan * Viguen * Xaniar Khosravi

Bands

* 25band * Abjeez *

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* Barobax * Kako Band

Songwriters

Ilya Ilya, Iliya, Ilia, Ilja, Ilija, or Illia ( , or ; ; ) is the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning "My God is Yahu/ Jah." It comes from the Byzantine Greek pronunciation of the vocative (Ilía) of the Greek Eli ...

* Hangi Tavakoli *

Mina Assadi Mina Assadi (; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. Author Assadi wrote her debut book, a collection of poems named ''Minas Gift'' (Armanghane Mina), at the age ...

* Laleh

Lyricists

Amir Tataloo Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo (; born 21 September 1987), known professionally as Amir Tataloo (Persian: ), is an Iranian singer, rapper and songwriter. He is one of Iran's most famous and controversial artists known for his full body tattoo and his f ...

* Molana *

Shahyar Ghanbari Shahyar Ghanbari, also spelled incorrectly as Shahryar Ghanbari (b. 28 July 1950 in Tehran; ) is an Iranian poet, writer, lyricist, songwriter, and singer of Persian pop music. He is also a film director and radio-TV producer . Shahyar is the so ...

* Maryam Heydarzadeh *

Leila Kasra Leila Kasra (‎; 1939–1989) also known as Hedieh (), (March 27, 1939 – May 16, 1989) was a prominent Iranian contemporary poet and lyricist who has written lyrics for notable artists including Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen, Moein, Maha ...

* Hangi Tavakoli * Sahar Ajdamsani * Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi

Rock/Metal

Singers

* Afshin Moghadam * Ali Azimi *

Azita Youssefi Azita Youssefi (; born January 18, 1971, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an Iranian-American experimental musician, artist and music teacher based in Chicago. She was originally associated with the Chicago no wave scene, which included bands such as t ...

* Kamil Yaghmaei *

Kavus Torabi Kavus Torabi (born 5 December 1971) is a British-Iranian musician, composer, record label owner and radio broadcaster. A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the psychedelic, avant-garde rock field (primarily as a guitarist). Tora ...

Kourosh Yaghmaei Kourosh Yaghmaei (; also spelled as Kourosh Yaghmaee; born 3 December 1946) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer, who started his career in the early 1970s. Regarded as one of the greatest Persian langua ...

* Kaveh Afagh *

* Martik Kanian * Maryama *

* Pouya Kolahi *

Reza Yazdani Reza Yazdani (, born August 25, 1984, in Juybar, Iran), nicknamed The Leopard of Juybar, is an Iranian Sport wrestling, wrestler and two-time world champion who won gold in the 2011 World Wrestling Championships and 2013 World Wrestling Champion ...

* Salim Ghazi Saeedi *

Shahin Najafi Morteza Najafipour Moghadam (; born 1980), better known as Shahin Najafi (), is an Iranian musician, singer, composer, poet, author, and political activist. Najafi's songs mostly deal with issues su ...

Mohsen Namjoo Mohsen Namjoo () is an Iranian singer-songwriter, composer, and musician. His style of music is influenced by blues and rock as well as Iranian folk music. Early life and education Namjoo was born on 4 March 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, a small town ...

Bands

* 127 *

Angband Angband may refer to: * Angband (Middle-earth), the fortress of Morgoth in Tolkien's fiction * ''Angband'' (video game), a roguelike game named after the fortress *Angband (band) Angband is a Persian-American power metal group, formed in 2004 i ...

* Antikarisma * Arashk *

Arsames Arsames ( Aršāma, modern Persian:،آرسام، آرشام‎ Arshām, Greek: ) was the son of Ariaramnes and the grandfather of Darius I. He was traditionally claimed to have briefly been king of Persia during the Achaemenid dynasty, an ...

* Barad *

Hypernova A hypernova is a very energetic supernova which is believed to result from an extreme core collapse scenario. In this case, a massive star (>30 solar masses) collapses to form a rotating black hole emitting twin astrophysical jets and surrounded b ...

Kiosk Historically, a kiosk () was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Iran, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward. Today, several examples of this type of kiosk still exist ...

Take It Easy Hospital Take It Easy Hospital was a London-based duo from Iran. Formed by singer and producer Ash Koosha a.k.a. Ashkan Kooshanejad and singer-songwriter Negar Shaghaghi in Tehran. Their first single demo song Human Jungle was recorded in July 2008 as a ...

* The Yellow Dogs Band

Electronic

* Ashkan Kooshanejad *

Leila Arab Leila Arab (, born in 1971), professionally known as Leila, is an Iranian-born record producer and DJ based in London, England. She has released music on the labels Rephlex, XL and Warp. She has also worked extensively with Icelandic singer B ...

* Deep Dish *

DJ Aligator Ali Asghar Movasat (), better known by his stage name DJ Aligator, is an Iranian-Danish producer and DJ. Musical career He enjoyed worldwide success with the single " The Whistle Song" from his 2000 debut album '' Payback Time''. It peaked at ...

Masoud Masoud (; ) is a given name and surname, with origins in Persian and Arabic. The name is found in the Arab world, Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and China. Masoud has spelling variations p ...

* Steve Naghavi * Nami * Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia * Sharam Tayebi * Patrick Alavi *

Rap/Hip Hop

Hichkas Soroush Lashkari (; born 9 May 1985), known professionally as Hichkas ( ; ), is an Iranian rapper and singer-songwriter. Credited with popularizing Persian hip hop to the Iranian people and other Persian-speaking countries such as Afghanistan and ...

* Erfan *

Zedbazi Zedbazi () is an Iranian hip hop band, formed by longtime friends Saman Wilson and Mehrad Hidden, with Sohrab MJ joining soon after and later joined by Sijal, Alireza JJ and Nassim. In a 2022 concert, the founder of the group (Saman Wilson) anno ...

Bahram Bahram may refer to: People * Bahram (name) Other uses * Bahram (''Shahnameh''), a heroic character in the Iranian epic poem * Bahram (horse) Bahram (1932–1956) was an Irish-bred, English-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He was undefeated ...

Yas Yas or YAS may refer to: * Yas (slang), an affirmative in English * ''Yas'' (yacht), a superyacht built in 2011 in Abu Dhabi * Yas (rapper), Iranian rapper * Y.A.S., a French electronic music duo formed in 2007 * Yas Island, an island in Abu ...

Jazz

* Viguen * Ardeshir Farah *

Rana Farhan Rana Farhan () is an Iranian musician and singer of jazz and blues. After graduating from Tehran University, she left Iran in 1989, and has been living in New York since then. Recording albums In 2005 she teamed with guitarist/producer Steven Tou ...

* Cymin Samawatie * Shahin and Sepehr * Ziba Shirazi * Golnar Shahyar

Blues

* Martik Qarah Khanian

Film composers

* Saeed Shahram *

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