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musician, producer and songwriter. She has released albums and singles in
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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as well as single records in English.
She has been interested in music since her childhood, and she started learning music professionally when she was 17 by playing classical guitar and learning music theory lessons. She had started writing lyrics by the age of 16, writing in both English and Persian languages. After entering Arts college she gave up classical guitar and began playing piano and keyboard.
In July 2009, she released her first single in English ''You've gone cold tonight'' on the web, which tells of an emotional gulf between lovers. The received over 2000 downloads from websites such as 4shared. For her English language songs she uses the artistic name 'Autumn Girl'.
Her first album was published in 2010; the first single from that was Persian ''Rooze Paeezi'' in November 2010. That year she also competed for the online Zirzamin Music Award by submitting her punk rock song ''Love Affair''. The top twenty entries were featured in a compilation album, and Farzane Zamen was placed eighth.
Her first music video, ''Khodahafez'', released in 2012, was a hit in Iran and the
Iranian diaspora
Iranian diaspora refers to Iranian people or those who are of Iranian ancestry living outside Iran.
Because of Islamic law as it is applied in Iran, women are not allowed to sing in public, so Farzane Zamen has no opportunity to perform her music in her home country. During December 2015 she was on a one-month residency in Nordic countries arranged by Safe Muse (a Norwegian organization) to perform and work with fellow musicians there, and to get the opportunity to play in public. She performed in
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, Norway and
Malmö
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, Sweden.
In 2017 she was awarded a prestigious Artist Protection Fund fellowship for artist residency hosted by Centre for Contemporary Arts of Glasgow, she's been based in Glasgow since then and been active in Scotland's music scene.