Iranian rock refers to rock music produced by Iranian artists. Rock music has been popular in Iran since the late forties, with the emergence of singers such as Kourosh Yaghmaei, Farhad Mehrad, Fereydoon Foroughi and Habib Mohebian, but was largely forgotten after the Cultural Revolution. Like most rock styles, electric guitar and bass guitar and drums are the main instruments in this type of music. In some groups, the keyboard also has the task of adjusting the rhythms and symbols.
Varoujan Hakhbandian, mostly known as Varoujan was an Iranian songwriter, composer and arranger of Armenian descent.
Oy is the third studio album by the Iranian singer-songwriter Mohsen Namjoo after Toranj and Jabr-e Joghrafiyaei. Released on 6 October 2009 this was Namjoo's first album produced and published outside Iran.
Majid Habibi (born 30 December 1981. / Tehran - originally from Sanandaj, kurdistan Province)is an Iranian voice actor who is known for Persian voice acting for films, animations, documentaries, video games, film trailers, television advertisements, radio advertisements, network promotions, radio or audio dramas, puppet shows, audiobooks and television programs. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Management.
Rahim Shahriari is an Iranian popular songwriter and singer born in Shamqazan district of Tabriz, Iran in 1970. Shahriari is leader of the Araz musical group and has made several hits around Iran.
Asieh Ahmadi is an Iranian daf, dayereh and tanbur player. She is the sister of Sara Ahmadi. Ahmadi has made numerous recordings with prominent musicians including Abdolhossein Mokhtabad, Nasser Razazi, Pari Zanganeh and Simin Ghanem, and is a member of the Musical groups Hannaneh and Toranj.
Farshid Manafi is an Iranian popular radio presenter and radio programme producer. He was one of the Radio Javan producers performing the "On the youth line" program. He left Iran on 2010 and currently is living in Prague, working with Radio Farda and performs a political comedy radio program named as "Thursday & Wednesday Station with Farshid Manafi".
Kaveh Afagh is an Iranian singer, songwriter, arranger, guitarist as well as an actor and painter. He is one of the first performers of Persian Rock music.He is best known for Rock On, a documentary about Persian rock.
SOL Music Center is a performing arts center dedicated to Classical Music. First founded in 1983 by Bahman Mehabadi in Tabriz, Iran, it was moved to Tehran, Iran, after several years of activity. Today it is home to SOL Philharmonic and SOL Music Educational Institute. SOL Philharmonic itself is organized into SOL Music Research and SOL Music Ensemble. SOL Music has performed in many concerts, published 17 Classical Music Albums, and presented over 100 issued articles about art and music.
Sanam Pasha is an Iranian songwriter, vocalist and vocal coach in rock and metal music. As a child, she learned Persian folk music and later went on to learn classical piano, vocals, and solfeggio. She also has an online Masters certificate in Songwriting and Vocals from the Berklee College of Music. She founded Sanam Pasha, an all-female rock band, in 2012.
Nickan Ebrahimi ; born 1984 in Tehran), professionally known as Nickan Ebrahimi, is an Iranian composer and arranger.
Parviz Maghsadi band was an Iranian rock band. The group was formed by renowned Iranian composer Parviz Maghsadi to discover new talents. He was able to introduce talents like Dariush Eghbali and Afshin Moghaddam into the music world. Parviz Maghsadi band was the first band to introduce Mandolin to Iranian music. Quiet rhythms, mandolin solos, symphonies and love poems were instrumental in determining the band's music. The band's activities lasted only three years. The band performed new rhythms in Iranian music that later became very influential. Although they never achieved much success, famous and important Iranian pop singers such as Afshin Moghaddam and Dariush Eghbali started With this group.
Iranian Alternative rock is a subset of Iranian rock. This style was inspired by the alternative rock works of American. This style was formed at the end of Iran-Iraq war in Tehran to defuse the pressure of war.
"Zemestoon" (Winter) (Persian:زمستون) is a song written by Jahanbakhsh Pazouki, composed by Cheshm Azar Group, and sung by Afshin Moghaddam on his first album of the same name. Zemestoon is regarded as Moghaddam's most famous song, though he only performed it live once, two months before his death.
Iranian Heavy Metal is a subset of Iranian rock. The genre originated in Iran in the late 1970s and gained much popularity after the Iranian Revolution. Many heavy metal Subgenres, such as death metal, are known in Iran thanks to rock and metal festivals in neighboring countries like Georgia. Heavy metal has been widely introduced into Iranian music since the Iran-Iraq War. Iranian heavy metal is heavily influenced by American metal. Heavy metal is still banned in Iran, and the ban has become more severe in recent years as heavy metal has become a symbol of underground musicians in Iran.
Majid Gheisari is an Iranian writer and novelist. He was born on December 1966 in Tehran. He has won the International Eurasia Award from Russia for the premier novel in 2018.
Hamid Reza Shekarsari is an Iranian poet, researcher, author and literary critic. He has published more than 20 volumes of poetry and literary research.
Persian Music is a news analytical news site in Iran that has been officially launched since January 9th. This site has been named the Best Music Website of Iran Music Blogs and Sites Festival for years 1, 2, 3 and 7. Amin Mousavi, the author and editor of this website, died of a cardiac arrest on 7 February.
