Shahram Nazeri
Shahram Nazeri ( Persian شهرام ناظری Schahram Naseri , DMG Šahrām-e Nāẓerī ; * February 18, 1950 in Kermanshah ) is a Kurdish-Iranian singer and composer.
Life
Nazeri was introduced to classical Persian music as a child by his father, who was himself a singer and setar player. He made his first appearance on local radio in his hometown at the age of eleven. He later studied classical Persian singing in Tehran with Abdollah Davami , Abdol Ali Vaziri , Nourali Boroumand and Mahmoud Karimi and Setar with Ahmad Ebadi , Bigjeh-Khani and Jalal Zolfonoun . After the Islamic Revolution , he appeared as an important interpreter of classical Persian poetry from the 1980s , including above all poems by the Persian Sufi mystic Rumi . In contrast to many other artists, he did not leave his homeland and became one of the most successful singers of classical Persian , but also Kurdish music .
Internationally, Nazeri performed at the Festival in Aix-en-Provence, the Festival of Avignon, the Roma Europa Festival , the São Paulo Music Festival and the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, the Summer Festival in Tokyo, the Beiteddine Festival in Lebanon and the Festa del Popolo in Italy, the Theàtre de la Ville in Paris, the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles and the Royal Albert Hall , at the Asia Society , the World Music Institute and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.
Since the beginning of the 2000s he has also worked with his son, the singer and composer Hafez Nazeri . From 2005 to 2006 he undertook a very successful concert tour through North America with him and his ensemble under the title In the Path of Rumi . In total, Nazeri published more than forty albums, mostly with settings of Rumi's poems. The album "Gol-e sad barg" (The Hundred Petal Flower), which he recorded for Rumi's 800th birthday, became one of the best-selling in Iranian history.
The Iranian Ministry of Culture honored Nazeri as the best singer in classical Persian and Sufi music. The University of California awarded him the Living Legend Award and the United Nations recognized his contributions to the revival of classical Persian and Kurdish music. In 2007 he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres for his life's work .
Web links
- Codoom Cologne - Shahram Nazeri
- Qantara.de - The Persian Nightingale - The Iranian musician Shahram Nazeri
- Allmusic - Shahram Nazeri
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nazeri, Shahram |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nāẓirī, Shahrām |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish-Iranian singer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kermanshah |