Mohammad-Reza Shajarian is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian classical singer, composer and Ostad (master) of Persian traditional music. He has been called "Iran's greatest living maestro of Persian classical music." Shajarian is also known for his skills in Persian calligraphy, and humanitarian activities.
Hayedeh, also transcribed as Haideh or Haydeh, born as Ma'soumeh Dadehbala, was an Iranian singer of Persian classical, folk, and pop music with a contralto vocal range. She was active for more than two decades, and is considered as one of the most popular singers of 20th-century Iran.
Gholām-Hossein Banān was an Iranian musician and singer. One of the most prominent Iranian singers of the 20th century, he was renowned for the quality of his voice.
Marzieh, born Ashraf o-Sadat Mortezaie, was a Persian traditional singer.
Ebrahim Golestan, is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975.
Iranian pop music refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional languages of the country. It is also widely referred to as Persian pop music in the Western world.
Reza Sadeghi is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter. Sadeghi had been singing since his childhood. He began chanting Qur'an at school. He had an interest in music so he changed his way to the music.
Mansour, also called Mansour Jafari Mamaghani, is an Iranian artist renowned as a Persian musical artist based in Southern California.
Ali Tajvidi was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University. He composed more than 150 songs and discovered and produced for many Persian performers such as Delkash and Hayedeh. He was born in Tehran, where his father was active as a painter in the style of Kamal-ol-Molk. In his youth he took violin lessons for two years under Hossein Yahaghi and for many years was under the tutelage of Abol-Hassan Saba for the violin as well. also took Harmony lessons under Houshang Ostovar.
Giti Pashaei was an Iranian singer and musician. Her name, "Giti", means "world" in original Pahlavi. Giti was one of the most popular Iranian singers of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults is an Iranian institution with a wide range of cultural and artistic activities in the field of mental and cultural development for children and young adults. The organization was at the center of the vanguard of cultural production in the late 60s and early 1970s and is the platform through which many of Iran's most regarded artists and filmmakers, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Morteza Momayez, launched their careers.
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, and political opposition figure. He is best known for his variety TV show "Mikhak-e Noghrei". He was the brother of the acclaimed Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad and Pooran Farrokhzad.
Iranian New Wave refers to a movement in Iranian cinema. It started in 1964 with Hajir Darioush's second film Serpent's Skin, which was based on D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover featuring Fakhri Khorvash and Jamshid Mashayekhi. Darioush's two important early social documentaries But Problems Arose in 1965, dealing with the cultural alienation of the Iranian youth, and Face 75, a critical look at the westernization of the rural culture, which was a prizewinner at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival, also contributed significantly to the establishment of the New Wave. In 1969, after the release of The Cow (گاو) directed by Darius Mehrjui followed by Masoud Kimiai's Qeysar (قیصر), and Nasser Taqvai's Calm in Front of Others آرامش در حضور دیگران(banned in 1969 and re-release in 1972), immediately followed by Bahram Beyzai's Downpour, the New Wave became well established as a prominent cultural, dynamic and intellectual trend. The Iranian viewer became discriminating, encouraging the new trend to prosper and develop.
Parviz Yahaghi was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He resided in Tehran city for practically his whole life, and was born and died there.
Loghman Adhami is an Iranian violinist and composer.
Reza Ghassemi is an Iranian novelist and musician.
Morteza Pashaei was an Iranian musician, composer, and pop singer.
Keivan Saket is an Iranian composer and university professor and Tar and Setar Player, and author of 12 books for Tar and Setar.
