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Babak Bayat
Babak Bayat ( fa, بابک بیات,13 June 1946 – 26 November 2006) was an Iranian musician and composer. He was repeatedly nominated for the Crystal Simorgh Award in the field of soundtrack at the Fajr Film Festival and received this award twice in 1991 and 1997. Biography Ali Hossein Bayat Zarandi, known as Babak Bayat, was born on June 13, 1946, in Tehran. His father wanted him to become an athlete and go to an officer's college and start a military life, but he chose music. Bayat entered the Higher Conservatory of Music. He was 19 years old when he started working at the Tehran Opera and became acquainted with classical and world music under the supervision of Evelyn Baghtcheban, Samin Baghtcheban, and Nosratullah Zaboli. He began his artistic career as an official singer in the Baghtcheban Choir. He later developed a deep friendship with Mohammad Oshal, composer and conductor of the Folk Jazz Orchestra, who was involved in his artwork. Iraj Jannati Ataei, a poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraj Janatie Ataie
Iraj Janatie Ataie ( fa, ایرج جنتی عطایی, also Romanized as "Īraj Jannatī `Atāyī"; born 9 January, 1947 in Mashhad) is a critically and popularly acclaimed Iranian poet, lyricist, playwright and theatre director. He is best known for his collaborations with Ebi, Googoosh, and Dariush. Janatie Ataie graduated from the Drama School of Tehran University and studied art sociology in Chelsea College of Art and Design.Take me home - in the endeavor of Yaghma Golrouyi See also *Shahyar Ghanbari Shahyar Ghanbari ( fa, شهیار قنبری also spelled wrongly as Shahryar Ghanbari , born 28 July 1950 in Tehran) is an Iranian poet, writer, lyricist, songwriter, and singer of Persian pop music. He is also a film director & radio-TV produc ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Janatie Ataie, Iraj Iranian dramatists and playwrights Persian-language poets 1947 births Living people 20th-century Iranian poets Iranian lyricists Exiles of the Irani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moein (singer)
Nasrollah Moein ( fa, نصرالله معین), more commonly known as Moein ( fa, معین, ), is an Iranian singer. Moein was born in Najafabad, a city in Isfahan Province of Iran. He began his artistic caree as a radio singer and released several albums before ''Miparastam'' in 1983, which was his first album to be widely noticed in Iran. The name of this album was ''Ghazal''. In recent years, Moein has become widely acclaimed in Iran and he has played concerts all around the globe. He is referred to as "Javdan Sedaye Eshgh," which translates to "The Eternal Voice of Love". He has two daughters, Paricheh and Setareh. Discography Studio albums * ''Miparastam'' (1983) * ''Arezo'' (1984) * ''Havas'' (1985) * ''Kabeh'' (1986) * ''Golhaye Ghorbat'' (With Hayedeh) (1987) * ''Safar'' (1987) * ''Bi Bi Gol'' (1988) * ''Sobhet Bekheir Azizam'' (1989) * ''Isfahan'' (With Faezeh) (1990) * ''Be To Miandisham'' (1991) * ''Namaz'' (1992) * ''Khatereh 7'' (With Shohreh) (1992) * ''Tava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariush (singer)
Dariush Eghbali ( fa, داریوش اقبالی ), known mononymously as Dariush (), is an Iranian singer. Biography Childhood and Youth Dariush was born in Tehran to parents from Mianeh on 4 February 1951. He spent his early years in Mianeh, Karaj and his musical talent was first recognized at age nine when he appeared on stage at his school. Hassan Khayatbashi introduced him to the public at age 20 through Iranian national television. He gained popularity for his song "Don't Tell Me You Love Me". (Persian: به من نگو دوست دارم ) Before the Islamic Revolution Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Dariush was named the most popular singer in Iran by a youth magazine in 1977. Dariush also worked with many famous pre-revolution songwriters in Iran. Imprisonment During the rule of Shah Mohammadreza Pahlavi, Darisuh was arrested and sentenced to prison many several times because he sang political songs. Such songs include Jangal, Bonbast, and Booye Gandom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Esfahani
Mohammad Mahdi Vaezi Esfahani ( fa, محمدمهدی واعظی اصفهانی ; 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 the famous Iranian traditional singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and his best student Ali Jahandar. Biography He was born in Tehran. His father, Mohammad Ali Vaezi, was a physician who was also the governor of Esfahan shortly after the revolution. He was of Esfahani descent, and his mother was born in Tehran. Mohammad Mehdi completed his primary and secondary education at the Alavi School and won a place in the juvenile category in the Quran competitions before the revolution. He was scheduled to be sent to Kuwait to win a position in the Quran competition, which was canceled due to his mother's opposition. From an early age, he learned to recite the Qur'an in three narrations from the masters of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahram Beyzai
Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, fa, بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and '' ostād'' ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies. Beyzaie is the son of the poet Ne'matallah Beyzai (best known by his literary pseudonym "Zokā'i"). The celebrated poet Adib Beyzai, known as one of the most profound poets of 20th-century Iran, is Bahram's paternal uncle. Bahram Beyzaie's paternal grandfather, Mirzā Mohammad-Rezā Ārāni ("Ebn Ruh"), and paternal great-grandfather, the mulla Mohammad-Faqih Ārāni ("Ruh'ol-Amin"), were also notable poets. In spite of his somewhat belated start in cinema, Beyzai is often considered a pioneer of a generation of filmmakers whose works are sometimes described as the Iranian New Wave. His ''Bashu, the Little Stranger'' (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine ''Picture World'' poll of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of Yazdgerd (film)
''Death of Yazdgerd'' ( fa, مرگ یزدگرد, ''Marg-e Yazdgerd'') is a 1982 Iranian drama film by Bahram Beyzai based on the play of the same name. Plot The story of the film is based on the murder of Yazdgerd III, the last emperor of Sasanian Persia, who while being hard pressed by the Arabs on his western flank, fled to Marv where he was slain by a miller in a mill, in which he had been taking refuge. The film begins with the Zoroastrian high priest (magus) of the Persian Empire, accompanied by the imperial army commander entering the mill to try the miller accused of murdering the emperor. The miller, his wife and his daughter, while trying to exculpate themselves, all express a different version of the same incident. As the story shifts, more questions come up than are answered. A central theme in the film is the social disaffection among the general population of Persia at the eve of the Arab Islamic conquests and inequality in the highly class-based society, in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Shamlou
Ahmad Shamlou ( fa, احمد شاملو, ''Ahmad Šāmlū'' , also known under his pen name A. Bamdad ( fa, ا. بامداد)) (December 12, 1925 – July 23, 2000) was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetry was influenced by and in the tradition of Nima Youshij. In fact, Abdolali Dastgheib, Iranian literary critic, argues that Shamlou is one of the pioneers of modern Persian poetry and has had the greatest influence, after Nima, on Iranian poets of his era. Shamlou's poetry is complex, yet his imagery, which contributes significantly to the intensity of his poems, is accessible. As the base, he uses the traditional imagery familiar to his Iranian audience through the works of Persian masters like Hafez and Omar Khayyám. For infrastructure and impact, he uses a kind of everyday imagery in which personified oxymoronic elements are spiked with an unreal combination of the abstract and the concrete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samad Behrangi
Samad Behrangi ( fa, صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particularly '' The Little Black Fish''. Influenced by predominantly leftist ideologies that were common among the intelligentsia of his era, which made him popular among the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, his books typically portrayed the lives of the children of the urban poor and encouraged the individual to change his/ her circumstances by her own initiatives. Early life He was born on June 24, 1939 in the neighborhood of Harandab in the city of Tabriz, Imperial State of Iran. He was from a working-class family, his parents were Sara and Ezzat, and he had two brothers and three sisters. His father was seasonal worker and his income was never sufficient, his father eventually left Iran like millions of other workers on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebrahim Zalzadeh
Ebrahim Zalzadeh (c. 1948 – February 22, 1997) was a dissident Iranian author and editor who was murdered in 1997 in what is thought to have been one of the " chain murders" of dissidents by "rogue elements" in Iran's intelligence ministry. Background Zalzadeh was editor of the Iranian literary monthly ''Mayar'' (also spelled ''Me'yer''), a publication that frequently criticized Iranian government censorship practices against the media, and was forced to close by the authorities in 1995. Zalzadeh oversaw the publishing companies of Bamdad ("Dawn") and Ebtekar ("Initiative"). "Dictatorship will not continue," Ebrahim Zalzadeh wrote in his final editorial to the supreme leader of the Iranian regime, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and he is remembered for that. Iran's formidable intelligence agencies banned Me'yar after the critical editorial and later kidnapped and executed Ebrahim Zalzadeh. Zalzadeh disappeared on February 22, 1997, and was identified in a Tehran morgue on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varoujan Hakhbandian
Varoujan Hakhbandian ( fa, واروژان هاخباندیان , hy, Վարուժան Հախբանդյան), mostly known as Varoujan (Qazvin, 4 December 1936 – Tehran, 17 September 1977) was an Iranian songwriter, composer and arranger of Armenian descent. He has composed and written songs for Ebi, Googoosh, Dariush, and Farhad Mehrad Farhad Mehrad (20 January 1944 – 31 August 2002), commonly known as Farhad, was an Iranian pop, rock, and folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, who released the first English rock and roll album in Iran. He rose to prominence amon .... The music for the movie "Bar Faraaze Aasemaanha" (High in the Skies), composed shortly before his death, is one of his famous works. Varoujan Hakhbandian made songs for some films. As an example '' The Dagger'' and '' The Beehive''. Filmography * Beehive (1975) References * * * * * * * * * * * ویژهنامهی واروژان، ماهنامهی هنر موسیقی، ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the replacement of his government with an Islamic republic under the rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a leader of one of the factions in the revolt. The revolution was supported by various Organizations of the Iranian Revolution, leftist and Islamist organizations. After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, Pahlavi had aligned with the United States and the Western Bloc to rule more firmly as an authoritarian monarch. He relied heavily on support from the United States to hold on to power which he held for a further 26 years. This led to the 1963 White Revolution and the arrest and exile of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1964. Amidst massive tensions between Khomeini and the Shah, demonstrations began in Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
