Payam Salehi (), is an Iranian singer and guitarist, and is a founder and main member of the band

Arian Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God t ...

Biography

Encouraged by his parents, he turned to music and learned to play the

santur The santur (also ''santūr'', ''santour'', ''santoor'') ( fa, سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.--- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). ''Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī''. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻU ...

with Azita Hajian as a child. After learning the santur, he turned to guitar and piano. Together with

Ali Pahlavan Ali Pahlavan ( fa, علی پهلوان) (born 1 May 1975) is an Iranian–Australian musician, singer-songwriter, lyricist and composer. He started his professional music career in 1999 by establishing the first Iranian mixed-gender pop band, Ar ...

, he formed Arian, which was originally a traditional music group.

Mohammad Reza Golzar Mohammad Reza Golzar ( fa, محمدرضا گلزار , born March 21, 1977) is an Iranian actor. Early life Mohammad Reza Golzar was born on 21 March 1977 in Tehran in a family of Azerbaijani origin. His close friend Aria Sajadi helped him ...

was once the guitarist of Arian, but later left the group. A few years after the end of Arian's activity, he performed the parvaz piece in a concert in the United States with Payam Salehi, which caused dissatisfaction between

and Arian's agents, because the single was performed without the permission of the band members at the concert.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salehi, Payam 21st-century Iranian male singers 1975 births Living people