Still missing homeland, Iranian singer Sadegh Nojouki forges career in U.S.

When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home ...
WRAL

Iran's legendary classical singer and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian dies

By 1960, he had become a prominent figure in classical Persian music in Iran. Shajarian focused on Persian folk, classical and traditional styles of music, and after college dedicated himself to ...
Los Angeles Times

Iranian music master Shajarian, who backed anti-government protests, dies

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before he was blacklisted for supporting protesters after Iran’s contested 2009 election ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Acclaimed Iranian Singer Faramarz Aslani Dies After Cancer Diagnosis

Faramarz Aslani, the acclaimed Iranian pop and folk singer, died of cancer on March 20, less than three weeks after he announced he had been diagnosed with the illness. "On the evening of March 20, ...
Tehran Times

Veteran Gilan folk music singer Nasser Masoudi passes away at 90

His son, Ali Masoudi Nia, a renowned literary critic and writer, announced the sad news, expressing deep sorrow over the loss of this iconic artist, Mehr reported. Born in 1935, in Rasht, Nasser ...
CNN

Iran’s legendary classical singer and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian dies

Regarded as a great ostad – or maestro – of classical Persian music, Shajarian was adored by fans across Iran and around the world. Born in Mashhad in 1940, Shajarian started singing at the age of ...