List of Iranian musicians explained

This is a list of Iranian (Persian) musicians and musical groups.

Classical

Persian classical/traditional

• Mirza Abdollah
• Maryam Akhondy
• Nematollah Aghasi
• Salar Aghili
• Azam Ali
• Hossein Alizadeh
• Hossein Khajeh Amiri (Iraj)
• Aref Ensemble
• Davood Azad
• Pejman Azarmina
• Gholam-Hossein Banan
• Iraj Bastami
• Hossein Behroozinia
• Sima Bina
• Delkash
• Chemirani Ensemble
• Mehdi Bozorgmehr
• Alireza Eftekhari
• Nur Ali Elahi
• Reza Ghassemi
• Akbar Golpayegani
• Mohammad Mehdi Goorangi
• Shusha Guppy
• Hamavayan Ensemble
• Parvaz Homay
• Sa'id Hormozi
• Mirza Hossein-Qoli
• Kayhan Kalhor
• The Kamkars
• Darvish Khan
• Ruhollah Khaleghi
• Fariborz Lachini
• Lian Ensemble
• Mohammad Reza Lotfi
• Javad Maroofi
• Marzieh
• Mastan Ensemble
• Moein
• Rokneddin Mokhtari
• Mohammad Motamedi
• Hamid Motebassem
• Shahram Nazeri
• Hamid Reza Noorbakhsh
• Hossein Omoumi
• Parisa
• Faramarz Payvar
• Iraj Rahmanpour
• Mehdi Rajabian
• Afsaneh Rasaei
• Anoushiravan Rohani
• Reza Rohani
• Ezzat Rouhbakhsh
• Abolhasan Saba
• Bardia Sadrenoori
• Dariush Safvat
• Shahin Shahbazi
• Abdolvahab Shahidi
• Jalil Shahnaz
• Ali-Akbar Shahnazi
• Homayoun Shajarian
• Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
• Shams Ensemble
• Farhang Sharif
• Haj Ghorban Soleimani
• Ali Tajvidi
• Dariush Talai
• Hossein Tehrani
• Ali Zand Vakili
• Alinaghi Vaziri
• Qamar ol-Molouk Vaziri
• Mortezâ Varzi
• Parviz Yahaghi
• Amir Abbas Zare
• Hasan Zirak
• Jalal Zolfonun
• Mahmoud Zolfonun
• Zyriab

Modern/traditional

• Axiom of Choice
• Chaartaar
• Zohreh Jooya
• Mohammad Nouri
• Niyaz
• Ramin Rahimi
• Hangi Tavakoli
• Roseland
• Shanbehzadeh Ensemble
• Vas

Western classical / Persian symphonic

• Habibollah Badiee
• Hossein Dehlavi
• Farhad Fakhreddini
• Hormoz Farhat
• Cyrus Forough
• Morteza Hannaneh
• Aminollah Hossein
• Ashkan Saberi
• Mehdi Hosseini
• Ramin Karimloo
• Hooman Khalatbari
• Parviz Mahmoud
• Fouzieh Majd
• Lotfi Mansouri
• Alireza Mashayekhi
• Nader Mashayekhi
• Kayvan Mirhadi
• Idin Samimi Mofakham
• Bijan Mortazavi
• Alireza Motevaseli
• Reza Najfar
• Anousha Nazari
• Ahmad Pejman
• Houshang Ostovar
• Ali Rahbari
• Mehdi Rajabian
• Behzad Ranjbaran
• Anoushiravan Rohani
• Arshia Samsaminia
• Heshmat Sandjari
• Hangi Tavakoli
• Loris Tjeknavorian
• Reza Vali
• Saman Samadi
• Samin Baghtcheban
• Soheil Nasseri
• Sadegh Nojouki
• Shahrdad Rohani

Pop

Singers

See main article: List of Iranian singers.

• Afshin
• Afshin Moghaddam
• Ali Abdolmaleki
• Ali Lohrasbi
• Ali Pahlavan
• Alireza Assar
• Alireza Kiarashi
• Alireza Talischi
• Andy
• Arash
• Aref
• Babak Jahanbakhsh
• Benyamin Bahadori
• Bijan Mortazavi
• Dariush
• Ebi (Ebrahim Hamedi)
• Ehsan Khajeh Amiri
• Elaheh
• Faramarz Asef
• Faramarz Aslani
• Farhad
• Farman Fathalian
• Farzad Farzin
• Farzane Zamen
• Fereydoon Forooghi
• Fereydoun Farrokhzad
• Googoosh (Faegheh Atashin)
• Habib
• Hassan Shamaizadeh
• Hayedeh
• Homeyra
• Hooshmand Aghili
• Javad Yasari
• Kouros Shahmiri
• Kian Pourtorab
• Laleh
• Leila Forouhar
• Mahasti
• Mahvash
• Majid Akhshabi
• Mansour
• Marjan
• Martik
• Maziar
• Mehdi Yarrahi
• Mehrnoosh
• Moein
• Mohammad Esfahani
• Mohsen Chavoshi
• Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh
• Mohsen Yeganeh
• Morteza
• Morteza Pashaei
• Nematollah Aghasi
• Omid Hajili
• Pooran
• Pouya Kolahi
• Pouya Pourjalil
• Pyruz
• Roozbeh Azar
• Rana Mansour
• Reza Sadeghi
• Roya Arab
• Sahar
• Sami Beigi
• Sami Yusuf
• Sasy
• Sattar
• Sepideh
• Shadmehr Aghili
• Shahkar Bineshpajooh
• Shahram Shabpareh
• Shahram BozorgMehr
• Shahrum Kashani
• Shakila
• Shohreh Solati
• Siavash Ghomayshi
• Siavash Shams
• Sirvan Khosravi
• Susan
• Susan Roshan
• Viguen
• Xaniar Khosravi

Bands

• 25band
• Abjeez
• Arian
• Barobax
• Kako Band

Songwriters

• Ilya
• Hangi Tavakoli
• Roya Arab
• Mina Assadi
• Laleh

Lyricists

• Amir Tataloo
• Molana
• Shahyar Ghanbari
• Maryam Heydarzadeh
• Leila Kasra
• Hangi Tavakoli
• Sahar Ajdamsani
• Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi

Rock/Metal

Singers

• Afshin Moghadam
• Ali Azimi
• Azita Youssefi
• Kamil Yaghmaei
• Kavus Torabi
• Kourosh Yaghmaei
• Kaveh Afagh
• Kian Pourtorab
• Habib
• Martik Kanian
• Maryama
• Mohsen Chavoshi
• Morteza Pashaei
• Pouya Kolahi
• Reza Yazdani
• Salim Ghazi Saeedi
• Shahin Najafi
• Mohsen Namjoo

Bands

• 127
• Angband
• Antikarisma
• Arashk
• Arsames
• Barad
• Hypernova
• Kiosk
• Take It Easy Hospital
• The Yellow Dogs Band

Electronic

• Ashkan Kooshanejad
• Leila Arab
• Deep Dish
• DJ Aligator
• Masoud
• Steve Naghavi
• Nami
• Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia
• Sharam Tayebi
• Patrick Alavi
• Kian Pourtorab

Rap/Hip Hop

• Hichkas
• Erfan
• Reza Pishro
• Zedbazi
• Bahram
• Shahin Najafi
• Amir Tataloo
• Yas

Jazz

• Ardeshir Farah
• Rana Farhan
• Cymin Samawatie
• Shahin and Sepehr
• Ziba Shirazi
• Golnar Shahyar

Blues

• Kourosh Yaghmaei
• Martik Qarah Khanian

Film composers

• Saeed Shahram^[1]
• Fariborz Lachini

See also

• Music of Iran
• Shiraz Arts Festival
• Iranian rock
• Iranian pop music
• Iranian hip hop

Notes and References

1. Book: Cowie, Peter . Iran . Variety International Film Guide . Andre Deutsch . 1998 . 978-0-233-99183-2 . 207.