Alireza Eftekhari is an Iranian

Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group, consisting of the speakers of Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family, as such forming a branch of Indo-European-speaking peoples...

 vocalist of Iranian classical and popular music.

Biography

He learnt music from several well known Iranian musicians, such as Taj Esfahani and Ali Tajvidi

Ali Tajvidi

Ali Tajvidi , was a Persian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University...

. Eftekhari is one of the most prolific Iranian vocalists.

Eftekhari is a popular Persian singer of the highest order. He put significant effort in changing the situation of popular music in Iran. In his own words: "In order to introduce pop music to Iranian music culture, I have made myself a scapegoat."

See also

• Music of Iran
  Music of Iran
  The music of Iran has thousands of years of history, as seen in the archeological documents of Elam, one of the earliest world cultures,which was located in southwestern Iran...
  
  
• Persian pop music
  Persian pop music
  Persian pop music refers to pop music with songs in the Persian language or other regional languages of Iran and Afghanistan...
  
  

He lost his popularity in Iran since 2010 following a public meeting in Tehran with president Ahmadinejad and hugging president Ahmadinejad in that public meeting. He has lost the majority of his fans since then.
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/a-hug-that-strikes-a-sour-note-for-singer

External links

• Official website (in Persian)
• Stream Eftekhari's music live
• Iran Taraneh (Listen to Eftekhari's songs)
• Discography