42 Iranian musician stubs

Qadir Abdullahzada born in village of Kulice in northwestern Iran, is one of the best known Kurdish traditional musicians. He played shimshal/ney, a Kurdish traditional music instrument. He started to play shimshal (Ney) as a young and homeless man aiming to earn his daily bread. He played on the streets for an unknown number of years until he was an old man and was filmed by a journalist which was published as a documentary. He was known for the long tones he could create and to play for hours without holding breaks.

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.

Faramarz Assef is an Iranian music artist and former triple jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran.

Davood Azad is an Iranian singer, multi-instrumental musician and composer who sings both Iranian classical music and Azeri folk music. He is the first Iranian lecturer invited to Oxford University to lecture about Iranian music & its forms.

Roozbeh Azar is an Iranian solo guitarist in flamenco and fusion guitarist.

Mohammad & Ali Saeidi ( محمد و علی سعیدی) are Iranian traditional singers. They are considered the only Iranian twins singers.

Qolamhossein Bigjekhani, also Qolam-Hossein Bigjeh-Khani, was an Iranian musician and tar player. He was born in Tabriz.

Negar Bouban is an Iranian oud and barbat player and student of Mansour Nariman, best known for playing Iranian folk music and improvisational works.

Darvish Khan was a Persian classical musician and a tar player.

Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh is an Iranian pop singer and musician. He performed at the 2018 AFC Champions League Final between Persepolis and the Kashima Antlers.

Saeed Farajpouri, was born on February 20, 1961 in Sanadaj, Iran. He is a composer, performer and an instructor of a classical Iranian instrument called Kamancheh or Spike Fiddle.

Mohammad Firouzi is a prolific Iranian musician, whose primary instrument is the barbat.

Fereydoon Foroughi was an Iranian singer, musician and composer. He contributed greatly to Iranian music and arts and his unique voice and style soon caught on with the people. In addition to his studies in acting, playing the guitar, piano and organ he also composed music. His style was inspired by jazz and blues.

Simin Ghanem is an Iranian classical and pop singer. She is best known for her song "Gole Goldun".

Aram Gharabekian was an Iranian-born Armenian conductor, former Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia. In 1983 he founded and until 1996 directed and conducted the Boston SinfoNova Orchestra.

Hossein Gol-e-Golab (Persian حسین گل‌گلاب also given as Hosayn Golgolab, was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the patriotic anthem Ey Iran.

Mohammad Heidari was a Persian santur player and songwriter.

Maryam Heydarzadeh is a contemporary Iranian poet, lyricist, and singer.

Hossein Khajeh Amiri, more commonly known as Iraj, is an Iranian singer.

Ardeshir Kamkar is a Kurdish musician from Iran.

Hassan Kassai was a musician and player of Persian classical music. He played the ney, the traditional reed flute of Persia/Iran.

Golnoush Khaleghi was a Persian-American musician and conductor. She was the first Persian woman conductor.

Muhammad Mamle was a Kurdish musician and singer. He renewed hundreds of Kurdish folkloric songs.

Javād Ma'roufi, was an Iranian composer and pianist.

Mehrdad Minavand was an Iranian professional footballer and coach. He played mostly as a left midfielder but was also deployed as a left winger or left-back.

Nasrollah Moein, more commonly known as Moein, is an Iranian singer. Moein was born in Najafabad, a city in Isfahan Province of Iran. He began his artistic career as a radio singer and released several albums before Yeki Ra Doost Midaram in 1986, which was his first album to be widely noticed in Iran. In recent years, Moein has become widely acclaimed in Iran and he has played concerts throughout the globe. He is referred to as "Javdan Sedaye Eshgh," which translates to "The Eternal Voice of Love". He has two daughters, Parichehr and Setareh.

Hamid Motebassem is a classical Persian musician and tar and setar player.

Mansour Nariman was an Iranian oud player, researcher and writer.

Nasrollah Minbashian was born in 1885 and a received musical education from his father Gholam Reza Minbashian in Dar ul-Funun, as well as from the French music teacher Alfred Jean Baptiste Lemaire. In 1898, he was 13 years old when his father took him to Saint Petersburg and enrolled him in the conservatory, while Gholam Reza himself followed lessons by Rimsky-Korsakov. When he left Russia in 1891, Gholam Reza arranged for his son to stay with his teacher at the conservatory, so that Nasrollah could continue his education privately as well. Nasrollah Minbashian would stay there for seven years. In 1905, he was 20 years old and returned to Iran to teach the cello. He stayed a few years in Shiraz, but then returned to Russia in 1912 where he became the piano teacher of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Romanova.

Giti Pashaei Tehrani was an Iranian singer and musician. Giti was one of the most popular Iranian singers of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Shahrzad Sepanlou is a Persian American singer. She was born in Tehran and migrated to the United States in the mid-1980s. Sepanlou is currently a marriage and family therapist in Orange County, CA.

Abdolvahab Shahidi is a prominent Iranian barbat player, singer and composer in the classical style born on 24 September 1922 in Meymeh. He is noted as one of the contemporary pioneers of Persian music by BBC Persian.

Jalil Shahnaz was one of the greatest maestros of Persian classical music and a virtuoso of the tar.

Ali-Akbar Shahnazi was an Iranian musician and master of the tar.

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.

Hassan Shamaizadeh is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter and saxophonist. Over the past three decades, he composed songs for artists like Googoosh, Dariush, Moein, Ebi, Aref, Homeyra, Farhad and others.

Farhang Sharif was an Iranian musician and renowned tar player.

Susan, born Golandam Taherkhani, was a popular Iranian singer of particularly the 1960s and 1970s. Among her recordings was her 1969 release of "Kolah Makmali"

Ali-Naqi Vaziri, also transcribed as Ali Naghi Vaziri

Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri, born Qamar Khanum Seyed Hosayn Khan, commonly known as "Qamar", was a celebrated Iranian singer, who was also the first woman of her time to sing in public in Iran without wearing a veil. She is known as "the Queen of Persian music".

Javad Yasari is an Iranian Street singer of popular music.

Houshang Zarif was a master of tar and Persian classical music.