Bijan Bijani ( fa, بیژن بیژنی, born May 24, 1953) is an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

singer Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

and

calligrapher Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...

. His most famous work is the song "The Concealment of the Heart".

Biography

Bijan Bijani was born on May 24, 1953, in

Babol Babol ( fa, بابل, , known as "Orange Blossom City" , also Romanized as Bābol; formerly known as Barfrouch) is the capital of Babol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. Babol is divided into two metropolitan areas (under Iranian law). At the 20 ...

. He began learning calligraphy and singing in

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

, and as he became acquainted with the Kamkar family, Bijani became more familiar with music. The result of this acquaintance was his first album entitled "The Legend of My Fatherland" composed by Arsalan Kamkar and performed by the

Tehran Symphony Orchestra The Tehran Symphony Orchestra (TSO, fa, ارکستر سمفونیک تهران), founded in 1933, is Iran's oldest and largest symphony orchestra. It was founded as the ''Municipality Symphony Orchestra'' by Gholamhossein Minbashian, before enteri ...

. In 1397, he published a collection of his calligraphic works in a cat called ''Nay and Ney''. He learned to play the

Setar A setar ( fa, سه‌تار, ) 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 two and a half octa ...

instrument from

Dariush Pirniakan Daryoush Pirniakan (Persian: داریوش پیرنیاکان) (b. 1955 in East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian musician, tar and setar player, and music researcher. Biography Daryoush Pirniakan, a musician and composer of Persian classical genre, lea ...

and Ata Janguk.

Music albums

* ''The Legend of My Fatherland'' - Composer: Arsalan Kamkar * ''Hidden Heart'' -

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 Defi ...

Kambiz Roshanravan Kambiz Roshanravan (Persian language, Persian: کامبیز روشن‌روان, born 9 June 1949) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian performing musician, composer, conductor and music teacher. As one of the famous composers in Persian traditional mus ...

* ''Mirror in the Mirror'' - Composer: Kambiz Roshanravan * ''Alley - Composer:'' Ismail Vaseghi * ''Gol Be Daman'' - Composer:

Pashang Kamkar , fa, کامکارها , image = , caption = , image_size = , background = classical_ensemble , alias = Kamkar Ensemble , origin = Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran , genre ...

* ''Colorful Dream'' - Composer: Mohammad Sarir * ''Red Apple of the Sun'' - Composer: Kambiz Roshanravan * ''Poet's Voice'' - Composer: Kambiz Roshanravan * ''Iran Zamin'' - Composer: Kambiz Roshanravan * ''Four Seasons'' - Composer: Ismail Tehrani * ''Mojdeh Baran'' - Composer: Kambiz Roshanravan * ''Aftab Khooban'' - Composer: Ismail Vaseghi * ''Another letter'' - Composer: Mohammad Javad Zarabian * Niloufar Nilofaran - Composer: Ali Akbarpour

References

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