Abdi Behravanfar is an Iranian

Iranian peoples

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 Singer, guitar

Guitar

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 player and singer-songwriter

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. He plays harmonica

Harmonica

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 in country blues

Country blues

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 style. He is a member of MUD

Mud (band)

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 band in Mashhad and had a collaboration for many years with Mohsen Namjoo

Mohsen Namjoo

Mohsen Namjoo, , is an Iranian musician, singer-songwriter. born in 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, a small town in northeastern Iran. The New York Times called Namjoo "Iran's Bob Dylan".-Career:...

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Behravanfar has produced nearly 40 Songs, 9 of them in the studio album Shalamroud and the others as singles. He also has performed as a film-score player for short films.

Early career

He was born in Mashhad

Mashhad

Mashhad , is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shia Muslim world. It is also the only major Iranian city with an Arabic name. It is located east of Tehran, at the center of the Razavi Khorasan Province close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its...

, Iran

Iran

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 in June 1975. At age of 12 listening to "Roll on

Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)

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" a song created by Alabama

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 country band he found himself interested in playing guitar. When he was 22 he want to Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 he bought a Guitar and started learning new lessons in playing the instrument. After returning to Mashhad he formed MUD band.

He was mostly influenced by music legends such as Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

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, Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

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, and Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

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 in Rock music

Rock music

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; Son House

Son House

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, Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

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 and Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson

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in Blues

Blues

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; Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker

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, John Coltrane

John Coltrane

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, Django Reinhardt

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 in Jazz

Jazz

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; and Neil Young

Neil Young

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 and Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson

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 in Country

Country music

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 and Folk

Folk music

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Studio Albums

• Shalamroud (2008)

Track Listing

1. "Faryade Feshordeh" – 4:13
2. "Agha Ghazanfar" – 5:30
3. "Toop-e-Toop" – 2:48
4. "Shalamroud" – 5:44
5. "Marde Sardo Garm Keshideh" – 5:40
6. "Kargare Bad-Bakht" – 5:48
7. "Be Saram Zad" – 5:02
8. "Gorge Balan Rideh" – 4:09
9. "Baghe Vaba Gerefteh" - 6:10

• Kokheo & Kalakhet (2009)

Track Listing

1. "Roghi" – 6:54
2. "Zadim Be Khunash" – 4:27
3. "In!?" – 5:46
4. "Pesar Amoo Joon" – 4:28
5. "Nahange Khaam" – 3:50
6. "Soog" – 4:29:48
7. "Gap" – 4:45
8. "Mostafa" – 5:50

Singles

1. "Shaayad" – 6:25
2. "Fiuz-e- sukhteh" – 5:26
3. "Esfandiar-e Maghmoum" – 9:35
4. "Gap" – 4:44
5. "lalayee" – 6:26
6. "Ejazeh" – 3:45
7. "Dela Dangom"

External links

• Abdi Behravanfar's Official Website
• Abdi Behravanfar Biography
• Abdi Behravanfar at Last.fm
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• Abdi Behravanfar on Myspace
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• a profile on Abdi Behravanfar in Persian and English On wordpatch.com