WMirza Abdollah, also known as Agha Mirza Abdollah Farahani (1843–1918), was a tar and setar player. He is among the most significant musicians in Iran's history. Born in Shiraz, he and his younger brother Mirza Hossein Gholi started learning music from their father Ali Akbar Farahani who was a well-known musician.
WKaveh Afagh is an Iranian singer, songwriter, arranger, guitarist as well as an actor and painter.
WAli Azimi is a Persian rock and alternative rock singer. He was the vocalist and songwriter of the band Radio Tehran until the early 2010s. After they disbanded, Ali embarked on a solo career, and released his debut album Mr. Mean in 2013. Ali released his third album in 2019.
WDaryā Dādvar is an Iranian soprano soloist and composer living in Paris, France.
WHossein Dehlavi was an Iranian composer.
WAhmad Ebādi was an Iranian musician and setar player. Born in Tehran, he was a member of the most extraordinary family of Iranian music. Ahmad's father, Mirza Abdollah, is arguably the most influential figure in Persian traditional music, and his paternal uncle, Mirza Hossein Gholi, is also well known for his mastery in playing the tar. Ahmad's paternal grandfather, Ali Akbar Farahani, was also a talented musician.
WEbrahim Hamedi, better known by his stage name Ebi, is an Iranian singer. He left Iran in 1977, currently residing in Spain.
WDariush Eghbali better known by his stage name Dariush is an Iranian singer.
WOmid Hajili is an Iranian trumpet player, pop singer, musician, composer and music arranger. He has released three albums, Allegro and Darkoob and Hajilitto.
WHâyedeh, born Ma'sumeh Dadehbâlâ, was an Iranian classical and pop music vocalist with a contralto vocal range. She was well known for her wide range of voice. She was active for more than two decades, and was considered as one of the most popular singers of 20th-century Iran.
WJavād Ma'roufi, was an Iranian composer and pianist.
WMehran Modiri is a prolific Iranian actor, television and cinema director, comedian and musician. He is considered to be the leading artist in social satire in Iran. His various series which have been broadcast through IRIB have set records in terms of viewership, as well as make him a popular personality among masses. His artistic career began in his teenage years as he was acting in local plays. He then entered the world of radio and television in the early 1990s, actively writing scripts for and participating in various comedy skits during the annual Norooz comedy television shows broadcast by the IRIB.
WMorteza Neidavoud (1900–1990) was a prominent Iranian musician.
WNematollah Azmoodeh, better known as Nematollah Aghasi, and better known as Aghasi or was an Iranian singer and songwriter. He was one of the most notable pre-Revolution singers.
WBahram Nouraei also professionally known as Bahram is a hip hop recording artist and record producer from Tehran, Iran currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. He is one of the premier hip hop artists in Iranian underground music and Hip Hop and Rap music in Iran movement and considered to be one of the 50 most influential people in the culture of the Middle East.
WSanam 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.
WMorteza Pashaei was an Iranian musician, composer, and pop singer.
WRita Yahan-Farouz, also known mononymously as Rita, is an Israeli pop singer and actress.
WAli Sadeghian is a Persian-Swedish musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He has been living in Sweden since 1984. He studied computer science at Örebro University and has been working as a system engineer since 1991.
WPouya Saraei is an Iranian Composer and Arranger, conductor, lecturer, Critique, Researcher and Santour Instrumentalist. He started playing Santur from age of seven and some of his music Masters were: Javad Bathaie, Faramarz Payvar, Hossein Alizadeh, Pashang Kamkar, Dariush Talai, Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab, Dr.Hassan Riahi, Sharif Lotfi, Farid Omran, Majid Derakhshani, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, etc.
WAli Tajvidi was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University. He composed more than 150 songs and discovered and produced for many Persian performers such as Delkash and Hayedeh. He was born in Tehran, where his father was active as a painter in the style of Kamal-ol-Molk. In his youth he took violin lessons for two years under Hossein Yahaghi and for many years was under the tutelage of Abol-Hassan Saba for the violin as well. also took Harmony lessons under Houshang Ostovar.
WAlireza Talischi is an Iranian singer, songwriter and Music Producer. He is originally from Hamadan.
WShamiram Urshan, also known as Shamiram Ourshan and occasionally Shamiram Oshana, was an Assyrian singer and entertainer from Iran, who gained popularity in the 1980s.
WKourosh Yaghmaei is an Iranian singer, songwriter, composer and record producer, who started his career in the early 1970s. Regarded as one of the greatest Persian psychedelic rock musicians in the history of Iranian rock music, he is known as "the Godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock", as well as the "king of rock".
WParviz Yahaghi was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He resided in Tehran city for practically his whole life, and was born and died there.
WHoushang Zarif was a master of tar and Persian classical music.