Cyrus Faryar

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Cyrus Faryar (born February 26, 1936 in Tehran , Iran ) is an American folk musician , songwriter and record producer .

biography

Born in Tehran, as a child in England for a few years, Faryar grew up in Honolulu . Dave Guard, one of the founders of the Kingston Trio , was his school friend. From 1957 Faryar had a coffee house in Honolulu. In 1961 Guard invited him to participate in his new group "The Whiskeyhill Singers", which only existed for half a year.

Back in Honolulu, Faryar co-founded the Modern Folk Quartet , which released two albums before disbanding in 1966. Later there were several reunions of the group, at times as a quintet.

In May 1967 the psychedelic album The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds was released, which Faryar had recorded with Paul Beaver on the Moog synthesizer . At the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967 Faryar performed with a "Group with no Name". In 1968 he played guitar and ukulele on Cass Elliot's album Dream a Little Dream, for which he also wrote two songs.

In the early 1970s, Faryar released two solo albums, Cyrus (1971) and Islands (1973). As a producer he worked in particular for the comedy group "The Firesign Theater" and as a session musician with Linda Ronstadt, among others .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Cyrus Faryar on Allmusic (English)
  2. Richie Unterberger: Liner notes for Cyrus Faryar's Cyrus (English)