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Iranian Women And Persian Music
Since the Iranian revolution, Iranian female solo vocalists are permitted to perform for female audiences. Female vocalists can perform for male audiences only as a part of a chorus. The prominent classical singer Fatemeh Vaezi, has given concerts accompanied by a female orchestra. She has also performed widely in Europe and the United States. Parisa (Ms. Vaezi's stage name) has also assembled a five-piece female orchestra. After 1986 Maryam Akhondy, the classical trained singer from Tehran, started working with other Iranian musicians in exile. With Nawa and Tschakawak she performed in Germany and Scandinavia. At the same time she founded Ensemble Barbad, another group of traditional Iranian art music, which has been touring all over Europe for the past years. In 2000 Maryam Akhondy created the all-female a cappella group named Banu as a kind of musical expedition to the different regions and cultures of Iran. For this project Maryam Akhondy, over years, collected old folk songs ... [...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] |
Delkash
Esmat Bagherpour Baboli ( fa, عصمت باقرپور بابلی ; 26 February 1925 – 1 September 2004), better known as Delkash ( fa, دلکش ), was an Iranian diva singer and occasional actress with a rare and unique voice. Biography Delkash was born in Babol, and was the daughter of a cotton trader who had nine other children. She came to Tehran to study (where she stayed until her death in 2004), but she was discovered soon and was introduced to the music masters of the time, Ruhollah Khaleghi and Abdolali Vaziri. She was named ''Delkash'' by Khaleghi. Delkash started public singing in 1943 and was employed in Radio Iran in 1945, only five years after the establishment of the program. There, she worked with the composer Mehdi Khaledi for seven years, until 1952. The best of her songs were written by Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian lyricist, and Ali Tajvidi, Iranian composer, from 1954 until 1969. Besides Persian, Delkash sang several songs, such as Kija and Banu, in he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shusha Guppy
Shushā Guppy ( fa, شوشا گوپی; née Shamsi Assār ( fa, شمسی عصار; 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 Mohammad-Kāzem Assār, was a Shia theologian and Professor of Philosophy at University of Tehran. At age 16 in 1951, Shusha was sent to Paris, where she studied French Literature and philosophy at Sorbonne, and also trained as an opera singer. In Paris she encountered artists, writers and poets such as Louis Aragon, José Bergamín, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. She was encouraged by Jacques Prévert to record an album of Persian folk songs. She married British writer, explorer, and art collector Nicholas Guppy in 1961. The couple had two sons, Darius and Constantine, but divorced in 1976. At the time of her marriage she moved to London, where she became fluent in English; she was alread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zohreh Jooya
Zohreh Jooya ( fa, زهره جویا) is a singer from Mashhad, Iran. Music career Jooya's father was an Afghan (from Herat, Afghanistan) and her mother an Iranian and they married at a time that it was criminal for an Afghan man to marry an Iranian woman. Zohreh Jooya has been said to have moved to Europe for further advancement into music studies. After earning her classical music education from Amsterdam she then moved to Vienna in 1980, where she later earned a master's degree in opera at the Conservatoire of the City of Vienna.Seida, LindaZohreh Jooya Biography, Allmusic, retrieved 23 July 2011 Both the Oriental, middle eastern and the European worlds influence Jooya. She has created a new way of interpreting the traditional music of Persia, played on original instruments, presented on several albums. Koch International has produced ''Persian Nights'' and Taraneh Music has produced ''Journey to Persia''. Her albums are an example of the beauty of the diverse ethnic music in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziba Shirazi
Ziba Shirazi is an Iranian-American writer, poet, singer, songwriter, storyteller and ghostwriter. As a poet and music artist, she is best known for her poignant songs and storytelling through poetry. Shirazi's compositions blend flavors of Persian melodies with world music and jazz. Early life and education Shirazi grew up in Iran, surrounded by music in a family of musicians and music lovers. She started writing poetry at 15 and dreamed of one day becoming a performer. In her teens, she became enchanted by the American musicals, '' My Fair Lady'' and ''Fiddler on the Roof'', featured in the movie theatres in Tehran, and later on Broadway musicals continued to be a great source of inspiration. In 1985, Shirazi left Iran for the United States, where she produced and promoted the first of seven albums, ''Red Apple'', in 1991. This album, rejected by Iranian music producers for its unconventional lyrics and melodies, became a success soon after its launch. Career Referred to as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Jalili
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Monika may refer to: People * Monika (given name) Films and video games * ''Monika'' (1938 film), a German film * ''Monika'' (1974 film), an Italian film Music * ''Monika'' (opera), a 1937 opera by Nico Dostal * Monika Christodoulou, a Greek musician known mononymously as Monika * Monika Enterprise, a record label *''Monika'', an operetta composed by Nico Dostal * "Monika" (song), by Island, Cyprus' entry for Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 *"Monika", a 1969 song by Peter Orloff See also *" Hej Hej Monika", a song by Nic & the Family * * Monica (other) *Monique (other) * Santa Monica (other) Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, U.S. Santa Monica may also refer to: Places * Santa Mônica, Paraná, Brazil * Santa Mônica in Lages, Brazil * Santa Monica, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitra Rahbar
''Mitra'' (Proto-Indo-Iranian: ''*mitrás'') is the name of an Indo-Iranian divinity from which the names and some characteristics of Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra derive. The names (and occasionally also some characteristics) of these two older figures were subsequently also adopted for other figures: * A vrddhi-derived form of Sanskrit ''mitra'' gives Maitreya, the name of a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition. * In Hellenistic-era Asia Minor, Avestan Mithra was conflated with various local and Greek figures leading to several different variants of Apollo-Helios- Mithras- Hermes- Stilbon. * Via Greek and some Anatolian intermediate, the Avestan theonym also gave rise to Latin '' Mithras'', the principal figure of the first century Roman Mysteries of Mithras (also known as 'Mithraism'). * In Middle Iranian, the Avestan theonym evolved (among other Middle Iranian forms) into Sogdian ''Miši'', Middle Persian and Parthian ''Mihr'', and Bactrian Miuro (/mihru/). As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darya Dadvar
Darya Dadvar''Daryā'' (دريا) ( Old Persian: ''Drayah'', Middle Persian: ''Drayā'', Sanskrit: ''Jrayaḥ'') is the Persian word for ''Sea'', or ''Ocean'' (similar to ''the'' sea), and ''Dādvar'' (دادور), a combination of ''Dād'' (داد), Justice, and ''var'' (ور), a suffix indicative of one's profession or vocation, for ''Jurist'' or ''Chief Justice'' (in general, someone whose main business is judicial administration of law and equity). For comparison, ''Dāneshvar'', a combination of ''Dānesh'', Knowledge, Science, and ''var'', is the Persian word for ''Scientist''. The word ''Dādvar'' is archaic, if not obsolete, and it is conceivable that the contemporary word ''Dāvar'' (داور), Arbiter, Arbitrator, Judge, or sports referee may be ''Dādvar'' itself, abbreviated through its frequent use over perhaps millennia, or is a direct descendant of it. The "''v''" in ''Dādvar'' should be pronounced as "''w''" and the "''a''" as "''aa''". Roland G. Kent, ''Old Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahsa Vahdat
Mahsa Vahdat (in Persian مهسا وحدت) (born 29 October 1973, Tehran, Iran) is a Persian classical and world music vocalist. Mahsa Vahdat's music style is contemporary expression inspired by old traditional and folk and regional music of Persia/Iran that she developed for many years and it is the result of work with many musicians from Iran and other countries. She writes most of her songs. In her music she also developed dialogue between other cultures in a high artistic quality and she got a huge response internationally. The text of her work is mostly from classical and contemporary Persian poetry such as the works by Hafez and Rumi. She has released materials with her sister Marjan Vahdat (in Persian مرجان وحدت). as in albums ''Songs from a Persian Garden'', ''I Am Eve'' and ''Twinklings of Hope''. Life After learning to play piano, she studied traditional Persian singing under Pari Meleki and Mehdi Fallah. She also studied setar with Ramin Kakavand and Maso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirayeh Pourafar
Pirayeh Pourafar (Born) is an Iranian musician, tar player, and expert on Persian music. Pourafar learned the radif as a student of Grand Master Ali Akbar Shahnazi at the Royal National Music Conservatory of Tehran. She has directed two successful Persian music ensembles, Nava Ensemble and Lian Ensemble. Pirayeh Pourafar is a composer whose compositions have been noted for innovative sophistication, thoughtfulness, and commanding technique. She entered the Royal National Music Conservatory of Teheran at the age of nine, where she started her studies with Masters Houshang Zarif, Habiboallah Sallehi, Mahmoud Karimi and Grand Master Ali-Akbar Shahnazi. From these masters she learned the Radif of Persian Traditional Music. She obtained an extensive knowledge of theory and a greatly accomplished technique on the Tar. After several years of training and numerous performances, she began her official cooperation with the National Radio and Television of Iran in 1975. At seventeen, Pourafar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamavayan Ensemble
Hamāvāyān Ensemble ( fa, همآوایان) 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 vocalists, tar and setar (ancient plucked lutes from Persia), and percussion. Maestro Alizadeh's most recent recording, Endless Vision, featuring the Hamavayan Ensemble with the Armenian duduk player Djivan Gasparyan, was nominated for a Grammy. Members *Hossein Alizadeh, tar, shourangiz (new lute) *Mohammad Motamedi, vocal * Afsaneh Rasaei, vocal *Majid Khaladj, tombak *Ali Boustan, setar *Pouria Akhavass, vocal *Nima Alizadeh, robab (lute) *Saba Alizadeh, kamancheh *mohammad enshaie, kamancheh, gheychak See also *Music of Iran *Masters of Persian Music *Mastan Ensemble *List of Iranian musicians This is a list of Iranian (Persian) musicians and musical groups. Classical Persian classical/traditional *M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
