Shahram Nazeri (, ; born 18 February 1950) is a contemporary

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tenor of

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origin from

Kermanshah Kermanshah is a city in the Central District (Kermanshah County), Central District of Kermanshah province, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is from Tehran in the western pa ...

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, who sings

Sufi music Sufi music refers to the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. Qawwali is the best-known form of Sufi music and is most commonly found in ...

, classical and traditional Kurdish and Persian music. He has been accompanied by some of the masters of Iranian traditional music such as Jalil Shahnaz,

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 ...

, Jalal Zolfonoun, Parviz Meshkatian and Faramarz Payvar. He has also worked with his son

Hafez (), known by his pen name Hafez ( or 'the keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, “Ḥāfeẓ” designates someoone who has learned the Qurʾān by heart" also known by his nickname Lisan al-Ghaib ('the tongue of the unseen'), was a Persian lyri ...

, a

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. Nazeri was the first musician to include

Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi '' faqih'' (jurist), Maturidi theologian (''mutakallim''), and Sufi mystic born during the Khwarazmian Empire ...

's poetry within Persian music, thus establishing a tradition of

within both

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and

Kurdish music Kurdish music (, or ''مۆسیقای کوردی'') refers to music performed in the Kurdish languages and Zaza-Gorani languages. The earliest study of Kurdish music was initiated by the renowned Armenian priest and composer Komitas in 1903, wh ...

Career

Shahram Nazeri has been established as a significant artist in Iran since the 1970s. His first albums which were in the form of mutual albums with Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, were published by the Chavoush institute by the end of the late 1970s. The content of these albums were filled with liberalism and patriotic ideas. Nazeri has released over forty recordings to date. His 1984 album ''The One Hundred-Petalled Rose'' ( Gol-e Sadbarg) has held the record for the highest selling album of Persian classical music and Sufi music in history. His musical talents were first nurtured by his mother at a very young age. Throughout his childhood, he was under the tutelage of the most renowned masters of Persian music including Abdollah Davami, Nourali Boroumand, and Mahmood Karimi. At eleven, he performed on the national Iranian television live for the first time. By age 29, he had gained a loyal fan base. He has continued to perform in Iran and abroad over the course of the last two decades. He has performed at major venues worldwide, including The festival of Avignon, Theâtre de la Ville in Paris and The Tokyo Summer festival. At his concert in

in 2014, he performed a Kurdish song containing the lyrics: "I am from Kermanshah, I don’t speak

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," prompting condemnation from Iranian authorities, and accusations of Kurdish nationalism. In 2019 he cancelled his annual concert in Konya, Turkey due to Turkey's offensive into Rojava in Syria with the following statement and had never given a concert in Turkey ever since. “This year, I will not do the concert in (the Iranian month of) Azar in Konya in solidarity with the sufferings of the Kurdish women, men and children of Syria and to show respect for the selfless and lovely people of my country, because Rumi is the voice of human conscience and the herald of peace and friendship in the world. He has always composed the lesson of goodness, humanity and love in seventy thousand couplets.”

Albums

# ''Chavosh'' (1978) #''Seda Sokhan Eshgh'' (1979) #''Bad Sadah'' #''Nowrouz (1981)'' #'' Gol-e Sadbarg'' (1984) #'' Yadegar-e Doust'' (1984) #''Kish'' (1986) #''ShourAngiz'' (1988) #''Saqinameh 2'' (1988) #''Aatashi in Neyestan'' (1988) #''Dele Sheida'' (1988) #''Layla and Majnun'' (1989) #''Laleh Bahar'' (1990) #''Dar Golestaneh'' (1996) #''Shour Angiz'' (1996) #''Mystified: Poetry of Rumi'' (1997) #''Song of Myths'' (2000) #''Ghame Ziba'' (2003) #''Lulian'' (2005) #''Shahram Nazeri and the Dastan Group'' (2006) #''Voice of Endearment'' (2007) #''The Passion of Rumi'' (2007) #''Safar Asrat'' (2009) #''Bi Gharaar'' (2010) #''Molaviyeh'' (2011) #''Shahram Nazeri Live in Concert'' (2012) #''Az Sedaye Sokhan-E Eshgh'' (2013) #Who Is in Love (2017) #''Arash Kamangir'' (2019) #''Through Eternity'' (2019) #''Ey Del Be Kooyeh Eghsh'' (2019)

Awards

* ''Chevalier des Arts et Lettres,'' by

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, 2007. * ''Lifetime Cultural Heritage Award,'' by

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, in 2007. * ''Simorgh award'', by the International Institute for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations, 2007. * ''Hafez Film Awards for Best Original Song,'' Hafez Film Awards, 2015.

Gallery

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Setar A setar (, ) (lit: "Three String (music), Strings") is a stringed instrument, a type of lute used in Persian traditional music, played solo or accompanying voice. It is a member of the tanbur family of long-necked lutes with a range of more than ...

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, Madrid (2011) File:Shams konsert.jpg File:Shahram and Hafez Nazeri concert at Tehran August 2017 12.jpg, alt=Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri Concert, Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri Concert File:Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri, 2001.jpg, alt=Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri, 2001, Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri, 2001 File:Shahram Nazeri & Pejman Taheri.jpg, alt=Shahram Nazeri & Pejman Taheri, 2019, Shahram Nazeri & Pejman Taheri, 2019 File:Shahram Nazeri 2005.jpg, alt=Shahram Nazeri 2005, Shahram Nazeri, 2005 File:پرویز مشکاتیان و شهرام ناظری ۱۳۸۳.jpg, alt=Shahram Nazeri & Parviz Meshkatian, Shahram Nazeri & Parviz Meshkatian File:شهرام ناظری و پرویز مشکاتیان ۱۳۸۳.jpg, alt=Shahram Nazeri & Parviz Meshkatian, Shahram Nazeri & Parviz Meshkatian

References

External links

Shahram Nazeri's official website
* Shahram Nazeriat

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