List of Iranian musicians and singers

Persian Classical / Traditional

Maryam Akhondy
Maryam Akhondy
Maryam Akhondy is a classical trained singer from Tehran, Iran. She was student of Ostad Esmail Mehrtasch and Ostad Nassrollah Nassehpour, two masters of classical Iranian music...
Azam Ali
Azam Ali
-Biography:Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India. Ali and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California in 1985, after which Ali discovered the santour...
Hossein Alizadeh
Hossein Alizadeh
Hossein Alizadeh , is an Iranian composer, radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar and setar instrumentalist and improviser, described by Allmusic as a leading Iranian classical composer and musician....
Aref Ensemble
Aref Ensemble
The Aref Ensemble was a Persian classical music ensemble. It was founded by maestro Parviz Meshkatian, Hossein Alizadeh, and Mohammad Reza Lotfi in 1977. The group was named after Aref Ghazvini, the 18th century Iranian poet and composer. Aref was dedicated to the promotion and advancement of...
Davood Azad
Davood Azad
' is an Iranian singer and a prominent master of Iranian classical music and Azeri folk music.He is an ethnic Iranian Azeri and has accomplished multi-instrumentalist and vocalist...
Gholam-Hossein Banan
Iraj Bastami
Iraj Bastami
Iraj Bastami was a Persian classical musician and vocalist. Bastami died on December 26, 2003 in the Bam earthquake.Some of his known works are:*Vatan-e Man*Moseme Gol*Raghse Ashofteh*Fasaneh-References:...
Sima Bina
Sima Bina
Simā Binā is notable Persian classical musician and Iran's researcher, composer, singer and song-writer of Iranian folk music...
Chemirani Ensemble
Chemirani ensemble
Chemirani ensemble is a notable Persian classical music ensemble.The group is made of Chemirani family:*Bijan Chemirani*Djamchid Chemirani*Keyvan Chemirani*Maryam Chemirani...
Darvish Khan
Darya Dadvar
Darya Dadvar
Daryā Dādvar, is an accomplished Iranian soprano soloist and composer living in Paris, France.-Education:Darya is a native of Rasht but grew up in Tehran. In 1991 she left Iran for France where she studied music. She is a graduate of The National Conservatory in Toulouse, France...
Delkash
Delkash
Delkash born, Esmat Bagherpour Baboli , was an Iranian diva and actress with a rare and unique voice and vocal range.-Biography:...
Alireza Eftekhari
Alireza Eftekhari
Alireza Eftekhari is an Iranian vocalist of Iranian classical and popular music.-Biography:He learnt music from several well known Iranian musicians, such as Taj Esfahani and Ali Tajvidi. Eftekhari is one of the most prolific Iranian vocalists....
Nur Ali Elahi
Nur Ali Elahi
Nur Ali Elahi was a spiritual thinker, musician, philosopher and jurist who dedicated his life to investigating the metaphysical dimension of human beings....
Mirza Abdollah Farahani
Mirza Abdollah
Mirza Abdollah, also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani , was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history...
Shusha Guppy
Monika Jalili
Monika Jalili
Monika Jalili is a vocalist singing songs of Iran, mostly in Persian.Born in the United States, Monika is of Dutch, German and Iranian descent. She studied music at The Manhattan School of Music. She was a student of Beverley Peck Johnson...
Hamavayan Ensemble
Hamavayan ensemble
Hamāvāyān Ensemble is a renowned Persian music group.- History :Led by Iranian master instrumentalist and composer Hossein Alizadeh, the Hamavayan Ensemble performs new interpretations of classical Persian music....
Parvaz Homay
Parvaz Homay
Parvaz Homay is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his given birth name Saieed Jafar-Zadeh, he is better known in the public as Homay...
Sa'id Hormozi
Sa'id Hormozi
Ostad Sa'id Hormozi was born in one of the old neighborhoods of Tehran called Sangalaj. He was a great radif master and virtuoso tar and setar player. His most important teacher was Darvish Khan, who awarded Hormozi with the medal of the "Golden Hatchet", which was given to his most prominent...
Hossein Khajeh Amiri
Hossein Khajeh Amiri
Iraj , was born on the 2nd day of January, year 1932, in Khaled Abad a small town located 55 kilometers west of Kashan, Iran. He began his musical career at the age of 6 by practicing traditional Persian singing under his father's direction...

(Iraj)
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor
Kayhan Kalhor , born 24 November 1963, is an Iranian kamancheh player, composer and master of classical Kurdish and Persian music.-Youth and studies:...
Hamid Motebassem
Hamid Motebassem
Hamid Motebassem is a renowned Iranian musician and tar and setar player.His first teacher was his father. Later he started to study with musicians like Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Hossein Alizadeh and Hushang Zarif. In 1991 Motebassem founded Dastan ensemble which is one of the outstanding ensembles...
Hossein Behroozinia
Hossein Behroozinia
Hossein Behroozinia is a renowned Iranian barbat and oud player.He studied oud, playing under the supervision of Mansour Nariman...
The Kamkars
Ruhollah Khaleghi
Ruhollah Khaleghi
Rūhollāh Khāleqi , also spelled as Khaleghi, was a prominent Iranian musician, composer, conductor and author.-Education:...
Lian Ensemble
Lian Ensemble
Lian Ensemble is a Persian classical music ensemble based in Los Angeles, California, USA.- History :The Lian Ensemble was established in 1997 by Pirayeh Pourafar, Houman Pourmehdi and Mahshid Mirzadeh. The group has performed throughout the U.S. and internationally...
Mohammad Reza Lotfi
Javad Maroofi
Javad Maroofi
Javād Ma'roufi , was a celebrated ethnic Persian composer and pianist.-Biography:Javād Ma'roufi was born in Tehran to the musician father Musā Ma'roufi and mother Ozrā Ma'roufi who both were distinguished pupils of Darvish Khan, a renowned music master of the time in Iran...
Marzieh
Mastan Ensemble
Mastan Ensemble
The Mastān Ensemble is an Iranian musical group performing traditional Persian music.- History :The group was founded as Hafez Ensemble in 2005 by Mr Sa'id Jafarzādeh Homāy , also known as Parvāz Homāy and Homāy Foomani...
Rokneddin Mokhtari
Sahba Motallebi
Sahba Motallebi
Sahba Motallebi is an Iranian, musician, songwriter and a tar player and also the author of two books on Persian classical music, namely "Tolou" and "Nyaiesh".- Biography :...
Mohammad Mousavi
Mohammad Mousavi
Mohammad Mousavi is an Iranian musician noted for his ney work.Born in Ahvaz, south of Iran, he studied ney initially with Hassan Kassai. In 1966, he started performing for Iranian national radio programs.-External links:* ....
Shahram Nazeri
Shahram Nazeri
Shahram Nazeri is a contemporary Iranian tenor of Kurdish ancestry who sings classical Persian music from Kermanshah. He is one of Iran's most respected vocalists...
Morteza Neydavoud
Morteza Neydavoud
-life:He was born to a Persian Jewish family in Isfahan during the Qajar times. His family was satiated with music and he began to love music at an early age. His father Bala Khan played the tonbak, and the sound of instruments played by the musicians of the time echoed in their music-loving...
Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh
Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh
Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh is a Persian classical vocalist and musician.He studied Iranian classical music under the supervision of Mohammad Reza Shajarian and has performed with several music ensembles, including the Shams Ensemble and the Aref Ensemble, as well as with the Ukraine Philharmonic...
Hossein Omoumi
Hossein Omoumi
Hossein Omoumi is a scholar and teacher of Persian music, who is Maseeh Professor in Persian Performing Arts of music at the University of California, Irvine. He has performed at many concerts and music festivals as a player of the ney, the traditional reed flute of Iran.-External links:*...
Parisa
Parisa
Fātemeh Vā'ezi , commonly known by her stage name Parīsā , is a Persian Classical vocalist and musician.----...
Faramarz Payvar
Faramarz Payvar
Master Farāmarz Pāyvar was an Iranian composer and santur player. Payvar died on December 9, 2009 after a long struggle with brain damage.-Works:...
Pooran
Pooran
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Siamak Pouian
Siamak Pouian
Siamak Pouian is an acclaimed Iranian Tonbak player. Tonbak is considered to be the chief drum of Iranian classical music. He has been a music professor at the University of California Santa Barbara for 9 years, and also he has been teaching in other universities in Southern California. He is...
Mirza Hossein-Qoli
Afsaneh Rasaei
Afsaneh Rasaei
Afsaneh Rasaei is a Persian vocalist who began training with Mahmoud Karimi in 1974. After Islamic Revolution it was forbidden for women to perform in public, so all the activities of women vocalists was limited to teaching. Now Iranian women are permitted to perform in concert with men, not solo...
Abolhasan Saba
Abolhasan Saba
Abol Hasan Sabā , was a renowned Iranian musician, composer, violinist, and setar player.-Biography:He was born in Tehran to Abul Qasim Khan Kamal ol-Saltaneh, son of Mohammad Jafar Khan Sadr ol-Hekma, son of Mahmud Khan Kashi Malak ol-Shoara Sadr ol-Shoara Saba ol-Shoara, son of Mohammad Hossain...
Dariush Safvat
Dariush Safvat
Dariush Safvat is an internationally renowned and well-respected Persian music master and ethnomusicologist. Along with Nur-Ali Borumand, Dr. Safvat was the co-founder and a former director of the Center for Preservation and Propagation of Iranian Music. Some credit Dr. Safvat with saving...
Abdolvahab Shahidi
Jalil Shahnaz
Jalil Shahnaz
Jalil Shahnaz is an Iranian tar player born in 1921 in Isfahan.- Biography :Shahnaz studied under the supervision of Abdolhossein Shahnazi and Hossein Shahnaz and befriended ney player Hassan Kassai....
Ali-Akbar Shahnazi
Homayoun Shajarian
Homayoun Shajarian
Homayoun Shajarian is a renowned Persian classical music vocalist, as well as a Tombak and Kamancheh player.- Biography :...
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
Shams Ensemble
Shams ensemble
The Shams Ensemble is a musical group that performs traditional Sufi and classical Iranian music with the tanboor, Daf , Ney and various other percussion instruments...
Farhang Sharif
Farhang Sharif
Farhang Sharif born 1931 in Amol is a well-known Iranian musician and renowned tar player.- Biography :Learnt music under the mentorship of his father. played his first solo song in Radio when he was 12...
Haj Ghorban Soleimani
Haj Ghorban Soleimani
Haj Ghorban Soleimani was a celebrated dotar player and vocalist from Iran. Dotar or Dutar is a form of Central Asian lute. He was also the pioneer of a new model of the ancient stringed Azeri instrument the gopuz.-Biography:...
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...
Dariush Talai
Dariush Talai
Dariush Talai plays both the Tar and Setar.Born in 1953 in Iran, he studied Persian music with masters of the Radif. His teachers include Tar player Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Nur Ali Borumand with whom he studied Musical radif and old compositions, as well as youssef Forutan and Abdollah Davami, with...
Hossein Tehrani
Hossein Tehrani
Hossein Tehrāni , was an Iranian musician and tonbak player. He is regarded as the father of the modern tonbak.-Early life:...
Mortezâ Varzi
Mortezâ Varzi
Mortezâ Varzi was an Iranian musician and kamancheh player.- Biography :He was born in Tehran of an artistically-inclined family. He started his music lessons on the violin at age 15 with Morteza Neydavoud, one of the greatest Persian instrumentalists of the twentieth century...
Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri
Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri
Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri is Iran's "Queen of Persian Music" and a prominent vocalist and intellectual....
Alinaghi Vaziri
Jalal Zolfonun
Jalal Zolfonun
Jalal Zolfonun is a master of the setar, as well a composer and teacher of Persian music.-Biography:...
Mahmoud Zoufonoun
Mahmoud Zoufonoun
Ostad Mahmoud Zoufonoun is an accomplished musician in the art of Persian traditional music.-Life and career:...
Zyriab

Modern / Traditional

Axiom of Choice
Axiom of Choice (band)
Axiom of Choice is a southern California based world music group of Iranian émigrés who perform a fusion style incorporating Persian classical music and Western classical music.- History :...
Zohreh Jooya
Zohreh Jooya
- Music career :Jooya's father was an Afghan and her mother an Iranian. Zohreh Jooya has been said to have moved to Europe for further advancement into music studies. After earning her classical music education from Amsterdam she then moved to Vienna in 1980, where she later earned a masters degree...
Niyaz
Niyaz
Niyaz is an Iranian musical trio. The group was created in 2005 by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Ali's husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, of the Iranian crossover group Axiom Of Choice...
Mohammad Nouri
Mohammad Nouri (singer)
Mohammad Nouri was one of the foremost folk and pop singers in Iran.- Biography :He studied the English Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, but continued his professional career in music. He studied Persian music under Esmaeil Mehrtash and music theory and piano under Sirous...
Ramin Rahimi
Ramin Rahimi
Ramin Rahimi is a percussionist and songwriter. His music mostly focused on drums and Iranian Percussions Daf and Tombak. he is also one of the members of Power metal act Angband.- Biography :...
Roseland
Roseland (band)
Roseland is a musical partnership between Azam Ali and film composer Tyler Bates. It features Azam singing entirely in English against a rock/ambient soundscape that, on several tracks, includes the drumming and percussion of Greg Ellis, who co-founded Vas with Azam Ali back in 1996.-History and...
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
Shanbehzadeh Ensemble is an Iranian folk band, formed in Bushehr in 1990. The band offers a rare aspect of the traditional music and dance of the Persian Gulf, more specially of the province of Bushehr, south of Iran and bordering Persian gulf....
Vas
Vas (band)
Vas was an alternative world musical group composed of Persian vocalist Azam Ali and American percussionist Greg Ellis. Vas is frequently compared to the Australian band Dead Can Dance. The band released four full-length albums, and both artists have released a few solo albums and participated in...

Western Classical / Persian Symphonic

Lily Afshar
Lily Afshar
- Awards and recognition :Afshar has been praised for her performances.She won the 2000 Orville H. Gibson Award for Best Female Classical Guitarist. as well as the Tenth, Eleventh, and the Twelfth Annual "Premier Guitarist" awards by the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts &...
Samin Baghtcheban
Samin Baghtcheban
Samin Baghtcheban , was an Iranian musician, composer, author and translator.-Biography:Samin Baghtcheban was born in 1925 in Tabriz, and grew up in Shiraz and Tehran, where his father established the first modern kindergartens and schools for the deaf in Iran...
Darya Dadvar
Darya Dadvar
Daryā Dādvar, is an accomplished Iranian soprano soloist and composer living in Paris, France.-Education:Darya is a native of Rasht but grew up in Tehran. In 1991 she left Iran for France where she studied music. She is a graduate of The National Conservatory in Toulouse, France...
Hossein Dehlavi
Hossein Dehlavi
- Biography :He was born in 1927 in Tehran and studied composition at the Tehran Conservatory of Music with Hossein Nassehi. He studied Persian music with Abolhassan Saba and, from 1957 to 1967, was the principal conductor of the Persian Fine Arts Administration Orchestra.For ten years, Dehlavi was...
Mahan Esfahani
Mahan Esfahani
Mahan Esfahani is an Iranian-American keyboardist; he is the first harpsichordist named as a BBC New Generation Artist. As a concerto soloist, recitalist, and collaborative musician, he has gained an international reputation on a variety of early keyboards.- Biography :Born in 1984 in Tehran,...
Tania Eshaghoff
Tania Eshaghoff
Tania Eshaghoff is a contemporary pianist and musical performer. Her Jewish family fled the politically unstable country during the rise of the Islamic Revolution....
Farhad Fakhreddini
Farhad Fakhreddini
Farhad Fakhreddini is a renowned Iranian composer, conductor and founder of Iran’s National Orchestra.Fakhreddini has composed music for some of Fereydoon Moshiri's poetry....
Hormoz Farhat
Hormoz Farhat
Hormoz Farhat Born 1929 Tehran, is a significant Iranian composer, ethnomusicologist and University lecturer.- Musical career :...
Shahin Farhat
Shahin Farhat
Shahin Farhat is a prolific Iranian composer studied in the University of Tehran where he got bachelor's degree in music, later he studied with the well-known American composer Ezea Laderman in the state University of New York in Binghamton, where he got his master's degree in composition.He...
Fereidoun Farzaneh
Fereidoun Farzaneh
Fereidoun Farzaneh was an Iranian composer of Western classical music. He was the son of Ismail Farzaneh and Fatemeh Sheikh....
Karishmeh Felfeli
Karishmeh Felfeli
Karishmeh Felfeli is a radio broadcaster, pianist, vocalist and creator of , a critically acclaimed classical music and arts radio program for Dublin City FM...
Cyrus Forough
Cyrus Forough
Violinist Cyrus Forough began violin studies at age five with his mother, a graduate of the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music. At nine, Forough was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Music, Brussels as a pupil of Arthur Grumiaux. Later studies were with the legendary David Oistrakh at the...
Morteza Hannaneh
Morteza Hannaneh
Morteza Hannaneh ‎ was a well-known Persian composer and horn player.- Musical career :...
Aminollah Hossein
Aminollah Hossein
André Hossein, born Aminoullah Husseinoff was a celebrated Iranian composer of Neo-Romantic music and a tar soloist residing in France....
Mehdi Hosseini
Mehdi Hosseini
Seyed Mehdi Hosseini Bami is a contemporary Persian composer and Musicologist.-Biography:...
Parviz Mahmoud
Parviz Mahmoud
Parviz Mahmoud was a Persian composer and conductor. He was the founder of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in its modern form. His father Mahmoud Mahmoud was a famous Persian writer, researcher and politician.- Education :...
Lotfi Mansouri
Lotfi Mansouri
Lotfollah “Lotfi” Mansouri is an Iranian-born opera director and manager. He was an opera director from about 1960 onwards, and is most well known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the San Francisco Opera from 1988 through 2001...
Alireza Mashayekhi
Alireza Mashayekhi
Alireza Mashayekhi is a notable Iranian musician, composer and conductor. He is one of the first Iranian composers who has pioneered Persian Symphonic Music.-Early life:...
Nader Mashayekhi
Nader Mashayekhi
Nader Mashayekhi is a Persian composer.Since 2006 until July 2007 he was conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra.In 1990s he was music director of an Austrian new music ensemble named "Wien 2001"....
Kayvan Mirhadi
Kayvan Mirhadi
Kayvan Mirhadi is an Iranian composer, conductor, and guitarist.In the course of his career Mirhadi has conducted many choirs and chamber orchestras dedicated to classical music....
Soheil Nasseri
Soheil Nasseri
Soheil Nasseri is an Iranian-American recital pianist based in New York and Berlin. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Berliner Philharmonie, among other venues. He has premiered over 2 dozen works by contemporary composers since 2001. Also notably, he...
Houshang Ostovar
Ahmad Pejman
Ahmad Pejman
Ahmad Pejman , also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, is an Iranian classical composer who resides in the United States.-Biography:Born in 1937 in Lar, Iran, Pejman was exposed to the sounds and rhythms of southern Iran from early childhood...
Ali Rahbari
Ali Rahbari
Ali Rahbari is a Persian composer and conductor, who played with more than 120 European orchestras including Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
Behzad Ranjbaran
Behzad Ranjbaran
Behzad Ranjbaran is a leading Persian composer.Ranjbaran was born and raised in Iran. He entered the Tehran Conservatory at the age of 9. Ranjbaran continued his study of composition at Indiana University...
Anoushiravan Rohani
Anoushiravan Rohani
Anoushirvan Rohani also spelled Anooshiravan Rowhani is an Iranian pianist and songwriter.Born in Rasht, Iran in 1939, Anoushiravan received music lessons from his father Reza Rohani, himself a poet and violinist...
Shahrdad Rohani
Kiawasch Sahebnassagh
Kiawasch Sahebnassagh
Kiawasch Sahebnassagh is Iranian music composer, researcher and pianist.He studied the Piano with A. Haraturian, F. Behboud & H. Shahsa and the Music Theory with S. Lotfi, M. Darvishi, M. Rohani and A. Mashayekhi. He began composing at the age of 18. Since 1994, Kiawasch has been enrolled,...
Heshmat Sandjari
Daryush Shokof
Daryush Shokof
Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
Loris Tjeknavorian
Loris Tjeknavorian
Loris Tjeknavorian is a contemporary Iranian-Armenian composer and conductor...

(Loris Cheknavarian)
Reza Vali
Reza vali
Reza Vali is an Iranian musician and composer.Reza Vali was born in Iran and studied at the Tehran Conservatory. In 1972, he attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he studied composition. He later attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received his PhD in...

Singers

Afshin
Afshin (singer)
Afshin Jafari is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter.- Background :Along with the title song Maach, he has made repeated airings on various Iranian radio and TV stations....
Alireza Assar
Alireza Assar
-Biography:The oldest child of a 4 member family in Tehran, His studiedthe piano under the supervision of Kavous Samandar, Javad Maaroufi and Mostafa Pourtorab. His first concert was in "Aboureihan-e Birooni " Hall in Shahid Beheshti University at age 16. Since then he had several concerts...
Andy Madadian
Andy Madadian
Andranik Madadian , better known by his stage name, Andy , is a famous Iranian-Armenian singer-songwriter. He is a naturalized American and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
Anousheh Khalili
Anousheh Khalili
Anousheh Khalili , born 1983, is an Iranian-American singer-songwriter. She is known for providing vocal talent and appearing in the videos for Deep Dish's "Flashdance" and "Say Hello," the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 in the Best Dance Recording category.She recorded her...
Arash
Arash (artist)
Arash Labaf is an Iranian-Swedish singer, dancer, entertainer and producer.- Early life :Arash Labaf was born in Tehran, Iran. At age ten, he and his family moved to Sweden, where he still resides. In an interview with BBC Persian Television, he has mentioned that his mother and father are from...
Aref
Aref (Aref Arefkia)
Aref Arefkia, known as Aref , born August 10, 1941 in Miyaneh, Iran, is an Iranian-born pop singer. Aref’s first introduction to music came in part from his Azari mother listening to Radio Baku as a child. Radio Baku played Azari and Western music as well as European operas in that time...
Arian Band
Arian Band
Arian is the first pop band consisting of both male and female singers and players in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Pahlavan and Salehi are the band's lead vocalists, and the songwriters are Pahlavan, Salehi, Amirkhas, Khahani and Farnejad. Their second, third and forth albums were the...
Arsi Nami
Arsi Nami
Arsalan Nami, better known as Arsi Nami, is a Persian-Swedish singer and songwriter living in Los Angeles, California...
Bijan Mortazavi
Bijan Mortazavi
Bijan Mortazavi , born on November 16, 1957 in Babol, is a popular Iranian violinist, singer and songwriter. Although his albums are banned in Iran his instrumental pieces aired many times in Iran TV.- Background :...
Cameron Cartio
Cameron Cartio
Kamran Sabahi better known by his stage name Cameron Cartio , born on 9 April 1978) is an Iranian-born Swedish pop singer and songwriter....
Dariush Eghbali
Dariush Eghbali
Dariush Eghbali better known by his stage name Dariush is a famous Iranian pop singer best known for his warm and plaintive bass voice heard in both ballads and political songs. He is also a social activist who directs a recovery center.-Early life:...
Ebi
Ebi
Ebi is a Persian Singer-songwriter and performer currently living in Marbella, Spain. He has combined musical influences from traditional Persian music, western pop and sometimes Latino style rhythms and is a major name in Persian music...

(Ebrahim Hamedi)
Faramarz Aslani
Faramarz Aslani
-Biography:He was born in Tehran and later moved to England to get his bachelor's degree from London University's college of Journalism. After graduation he moved back to Tehran and worked for several publications, including Tehran Journal and CBS. After the Iranian Revolution he moved back to...
Farhad
Farhad
Farhad is a Persian name meaning elation or happiness, and may refer to:*Farhad or Phraates, the name of 5 kings in the Arsacid Empire**Phraates I of Parthia**Phraates II of Parthia**Phraates III of Parthia**Phraates IV of Parthia...

(Farhad Mehrad)
Fereidoun Farrokhzad
Googoosh
Googoosh
Faegheh Atashin also known by her stage name Googoosh is an Iranian singer and actress. She is known for her contributions to Iranian pop music, but also starred in a variety of movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s...
Habib
Habib
Habib is an Arabic male name with the meaning "beloved", or "darling", it also appears as a surname. The name is popular in the Middle East, Africa, and France.-Given name:* Habib Beye , French-Senegalese footballer...
Hayadeh
Hassan Shamaizadeh
Hassan Shamaizadeh
Hassan Shamaizadeh is a famous pioneering and respected Persian singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, saxophonist, pianist. He is maestro in playing Saxophone and also play the Flute, Oboe and Clarinet with complete virtuosity. He is mostly known for his composition...
Jamshid (musician)
Javad Yasari
Javad Yasari
Javad Yasari is an Iranian "kooche baazaari" singer of popular music.He comes from the South of Tehran, and started singing in 1972 with the song called Poole Siah...
Kouros
Kouros
A kouros is the modern term given to those representations of male youths which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece. The term kouros, meaning youth, was first proposed for what were previously thought to be depictions of Apollo by V. I...
Laleh
Laleh
Laleh Pourkarim is an Iranian born Swedish singer-songwriter and former actress. She uses her given name Laleh as a stage name. She left Iran when she was a one year old and came to Sweden as a teenager, attending school in the multicultural district of Hammarkullen, Angered of Gothenburg. Before...
Leila Forouhar
Leila Forouhar
Leila Forouhar is a singer and actress from Iran. She relocated to Los Angeles after the Iranian Revolution.-Career:Leila is the daughter of the late Iranian actor Jahangir Forouhar, who had already established a solid background in the Iranian entertainment industry by the early 1970s. She speaks...
Mahasti
Mahasti
Mahasti bornEftekhar Dadehbala was a legendary Persian Pop and classical singer and diva and the younger sister of singer Hayedeh.- Background :...
Mansour
Mehrzad Marashi
Mehrzad Marashi
Mehrzad Marashi; is an Iranian-German singer and winner of Deutschland sucht den Superstar season 7.-DSDS Performances:- Albums :-Singles:-External links:...
Moein
Moein
Nasrollah Moein known as Moein is an Iranian singer known for his love songs. Born in 1951 in Najaf Abad in Esfahan, he has played lots of concerts across the world...
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:...
Nima
Nima (musician)
Nima is a Persian pop musician, television producer and television host.-Biography:Born in the 1973 in Shiraz, Iran, Nima became interested in music around age nine. In the early 1990s, he studied music in Europe and by the late 1990s, he had relocated to the United States to record music. Nima...
Nooshafarin
Nooshafarin
Nooshafarin is a popular Iranian singer. She is part of a large network of Iranian singer, composer, and songwriter exiles of the 1970s era who live and work in Southern California. Her name means "creator of joy" in Persian.-Early years:...
Pyruz
Pyruz
Pyruz Payandeh Azad is a famous Persian pop singer, songwriter, guitarist and former frontman and leadsinger of Black Cats.- Biography :Pyruz came to the United States in 1977 to finish school but because he had a passion for music, he and his best friend Ebi Hamidieh started a band called Shish O...
Reza Sadeghi
Reza Sadeghi
Reza Sadeghi is an Iranian pop singer and songwriter.Sadeghi belongs to the new generation of pop singers who emerged in post revolutionary Iran. He gained popularity among young Iranians. His most famous song is "Black is the color of love" . His first song was created in 1992...
Hassan Sattar
Shadmehr Aghili
Shadmehr Aghili
Shadmehr Aghili born 27 January 1973 in Tehran, Iran) is the most favorite Iranian pop singer, musician, composer, music arranger, producer and song-writer, and formerly an actor. He emigrated to Canada first, but currently resides in Los Angeles, California.-Career:Shadmehr was a child prodigy...
Shahryar
Shahryar (singer)
Shahryar is a Persian pop artist. He was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up in Europe . He started playing the piano from the age of 11....
Susan Roshan
Susan Roshan
Susan Roshan , born September 23, 1967 in Hamedan, Iran is an American singer of Iranian origin.-Biography:Susan born in Tehran and her family moved to the United States when she was 9 years old. She entered the Iranian music scene with her first album " Khakestar" only released on tape. Her...
Shahkar Binesh Pazhooh
Sacha Sacket
Sacha Sacket
Sacha Sacket is an American pop singer-songwriter who resides in Los Angeles, California. Sacket has produced four albums, Alabaster Flesh , Shadowed , Lovers and Leaders , and Hermitage...
Shaheen Jafargholi
Shaheen Jafargholi
Shaheen Jafargholi is a Welsh teen actor and singer from Swansea, Wales. He is of Iranian and Welsh descent. He appeared on ITV's Britain's Got Talent show and sang "Who's Lovin' You" at Michael Jackson's globally televised public memorial service in July 2009...
Shahram Shabpareh
Shahram Shabpareh
Shahram Shabpareh , is a famous Iranian pop singer, songwriter. His career spans more than 4 decades, he has had countless hits and sold many albums worldwide. -Career:...
Shahrum K
Shahrum K
Shahrum Kashani better known as Shahrum K or SK is a Iranian pop singer. He has released 8 commercially successful albums with notable hits.-Biography:...
Sheri Nowrozi
Sheri Nowrozi
Sheri Nowrozi is a Swedish pop singer. Sheri's single, "U Got Me Good," reached nr 2 on the Swedish single chart. It is produced by Jörgen Elofsson and is the lead theme in the screen adaptation of Snabba Cash.-Albums:-Singles:- External links :* *...
Shohreh Solati
Shohreh Solati
Shohreh Solati is a popular Iranian singer. She has had one of the most consistently active and prolific careers among contemporary, women Iranian singers...
Daryush Shokof
Daryush Shokof
Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
Siavash
Siavash
Siavash or Syavash is a Persian male given name.The following people have the given name Siavash:*Siyâvash, a character in the Persian epic Shahnameh*Siavash Alamouti, Iranian scientist*Siavash Akbarpour, Iranian footballer...
Siavash Ghomeyshi
Siavash Ghomeyshi
Siavash Ghomayshi is an Iranian musician, singer and song writer.Siavash studied music in London where he got his Master's degree. He left Iran after 1979 and now lives in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
Vigen Derderian
Vigen Derderian
Vigen or Viguen, born Vigen Derderian , known as "Sultan of Pop" and "Sultan of Persian jazz", was a hugely popular Iranian pop music singer and actor...

Songwriters

Andranik
Armik
Armik
Armik is an Iranian-Armenian flamenco guitarist and composer.Armik was born in Iran of Armenian descent. When he was just seven years old, he pawned his watch for a classical guitar, which he hid and practiced in his basement. At 12, he was a professional recording artist...
Shahyar Ghanbari
Shahyar Ghanbari
Shahyar Ghanbari is an Iranian lyricist, songwriter and singer of Persian pop music.Shahyar is the son of Hamid Ghanbari; Iranian actor, dubber and singer. He writes and sings in Persian, English and French...
Esfandiyar Monfaredzadeh
Siavash Ghomayshi
Saeed Shahram
Saeed Shahram
Saeed Shahram is a noted composer with over 40 feature length movie soundtracks to his credit since 1983.His accomplishments include awards for the film "Two Sides of a Coin" and "Abadanies", the latter winning the prize for Best Film at the 1994 International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland....
Daryush Shokof
Daryush Shokof
Daryush Shokof is an Iranian artist, film director, philosopher, writer, art director, and film producer, and singer...
Parviz Yahaghi
Parviz Yahaghi
Parviz Yahaghi was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He was born in Tehran in 1936 and died in Tehran in 2007....
Farid Zoland

Lyricists

Leila Kasra
Leila Kasra
Leila Kasra also known as Hadieh or Hedieh , was a legendary Persian poet, writer and lyricist who wrote many hits for many famous Persian artists like Ebi, Dariush, Sattar, Vigen, Moein, Mahasti, Andy, Homeyra, Hassan Shamaizadeh, Siavash Shams, Shohreh, Shahram Solati, Nooshafarin, Habib,...
Maryam Heydarzadeh
Maryam Heydarzadeh
Maryam Heydarzadeh is a contemporary Iranian poet, lyricist, and singer.She is a blind young woman who attracted Iranian nation with her poems and voice...
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi
Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi is an Iranian lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Iranian traditional music.-Biography:Master Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was born in 1922 in Kermanshah, Iran...
Shahyar Ghanbari
Shahyar Ghanbari
Shahyar Ghanbari is an Iranian lyricist, songwriter and singer of Persian pop music.Shahyar is the son of Hamid Ghanbari; Iranian actor, dubber and singer. He writes and sings in Persian, English and French...

Rock/Metal

Agah Bahari
Agah Bahari
Agah Bahari , born July 3, 1983, is an Iranian Rock musician.Agah's works are Instrumental Progressive metal/Rock. He has been deemed one of "Iran's guitar monsters" according to Iranian Rock magazine "Zirzamin"....
Angband
Angband (band)
Angband is a Persian power metal/ progressive musical group, formed in 2004 in Tehran.-Band history:Angband was formed in 2004 in Tehran by Mahyar Dean, a classically trained musician and author who is known for writing books about the bands Death and Testament...
Barad
Barad (band)
Barad were an Iranian rock band from Tehran. The main language for their lyrics is Persian, although English has appeared in their lyrics as well.-History:The history of Barad reaches back to the early 2002...
Amir Derakh
Amir Derakh
Amir Davidson is an American musician. He is currently guitar/synthesizer player for the band Orgy and guitar player for the band Dead by Sunrise...
Kiosk
Kiosk (band)
-Introduction:Kiosk is an underground Iranian music band founded in 2003 by Arash Sobhani in Tehran. Like many other bands in Iran, they had to set up their studios in the underground basements of friends and families, fearing of the Islamic regime’s constant surveillance and strict censorship...
Meera
Meera (band)
Meera is an Iranian rock band based in Tehran.Band members are Babak Akhondi , Dara Daraee , Farzam Rahimi , Reza Moghaddas , and Kasra Ebrahimi ....
O-Hum
O-Hum
O-Hum is an Iranian underground rock band fronted by singer/songwriter Shahram Sharbaf. Their style is what they call "Persian Rock", combining rock with Persian instruments and modes, together with lyrics drawn from the works of Hafez, the esteemed fourteenth century Persian poet.-Biography:The...
Kavus Torabi
Kavus Torabi
Kavus Torabi is a British musician and composer . A multi-instrumentalist, he is known for his work in the avant-garde rock field...
The Yellow Dogs Band
The Yellow Dogs Band
The Yellow Dogs are an Iranian Indie Rock band. Members include Obash , Looloosh , Koory and Zina .-Biography:...

Electronic

Leila Arab
Leila Arab
Leila is an Iranian recording artist, producer and dj based in London.She has worked with prominent European musicians such as Björk, and has released music on Rephlex Records, XL Recordings and Warp Records....
Deep Dish
Deep Dish
Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...
DJ Aligator
Steve Naghavi
Nami
Arsi Nami
Arsalan Nami, better known as Arsi Nami, is a Persian-Swedish singer and songwriter living in Los Angeles, California...
Omid Nourizadeh
Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
Citral
Citral
Citral, or 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal or lemonal, is either of, or a mixture of, a pair of terpenoids with the molecular formula C10H16O. The two compounds are double bond isomers. The E-isomer is known as geranial or citral A...

Rap/Hip Hop

Erfan
Erfan
Erfan Hajrasuliha, better known as Erfan , is an Iranian rapper and producer. His views are a result of his personal experiences and that is reflected in his poems. His songs provide a mixture of commentary on daily life as well politics, poetry and social issues.-Life and career:Erfan was born in...
Hichkas
Hichkas
Soroush Lashkary better known by his stage name Hichkas is an Iranian rapper based in Tehran....
Shahin Najafi
Shahin Najafi
Shahin Najafi is an Iranian musician, poet and singer currently residing in Germany. He began his music career in Iran before emigrating to Germany in 2005....
Salome
Salome (rapper)
Salome , is a woman rap artist from Iran. She is known for being Iran's first female rapper, and today is one of very few...
Yas
Yas
Yaser Bakhtiari is an Iranian rapper.-Childhood and youth:Yas first began to listen to rap music at the age of 16, when his father would return from business trips in Germany and bring him the latest Tupac Shakur CDs and other hip hop music. After the sudden death of his father, Yas was forced to...

Jazz

Ardeshir Farah
Ardeshir Farah
Ardeshir Farah is an Iranian musician and guitarist. He was born in Tehran. Farah is half of the guitar duo Strunz & Farah.Farah's work in Strunz & Farah earned him a Grammy Award in 1991. His works include jazz, rock and pop music. Influence of Iranian music is evident in his works. He is a...
Rana Farhan
Rana Farhan
Rana Farhan, is an Iranian musician and singer of Jazz and Blues. She was born in Iran. After graduating from Tehran University, she left Iran, and is living in New York since then.- Career:...
Shahin and Sepehr
Shahin and Sepehr
Shahin and Sepehr are an Iranian-American guitarist duo.Their music is mainly composed of Spanish guitar melodies fused with components of soft rock, flamenco, jazz, new age, and influences of traditional music of Iran. Their influences also include artists such as Cat Stevens among others.The...
Ziba Shirazi
Ziba Shirazi
Ziba Shirazi is an Iranian Jazz/ Pop musician , her songs mostly focused on women’s emotion, bold expressions of Love and Feminism.-Biography:...
Cymin Samawatie
Cyminology
Cyminology is an ethnically diverse Jazz band performing with Persian and own lyrics sung by Iranian/German singer Cymin Samawatie who writes most of the tunes. The music of the quartet is a synthesis of contemporary jazz, classical elements and oriental meters.-History:The band formed in 2002 and...

Persian Classical / Traditional

Modern / Traditional

Western Classical / Persian Symphonic

Singers

Songwriters

Lyricists

Rock/Metal

Electronic

Rap/Hip Hop

Jazz

See also