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Akbar Golpayegani (Persian: اکبر_گلپایگانی; 30 January 1934 – 4 November 2023), also known as Golpa (Persian: گلپا), was an Iranian traditional singer. Life and career [ edit ]
The Golha (Persian: گلها, romanized: Flowers) was a radio broadcast on an Iranian government-owned radio station Radio Tehran, active from 1956 to 1979. [1] [2] The history of the broadcast is supported by The Golha Project. There were 1,578 programs, consisting of approximately 847 hours of music and poetry. [1]
Persian traditional music or Iranian traditional music, also known as Persian classical music or Iranian classical music, [1] [2] [3] refers to the classical music of Iran (historically known as Persia). It consists of characteristics developed through the country's classical, medieval, and contemporary eras.
[1] and also there are many notable and top-notched scholars and ethnomusicologists who have studied on Persian folk music around different ethnicities to collect and analyze the Iranian folk music. Among them Morteza Hannaneh, Bahman Kazemi, & Mohammad-Reza Darvishi have had a deep authentic researchers on Iranian folk music. [13]
The ninth century Persian poet Rudaki, who lived under the reign of the Samanids, set his own poems to music. At the court of the Persianate Ghaznavid dynasty , who ruled Iran between 977 and 1186, 10th-century Persian poet Farrokhi Sistani composed songs together with songster Andalib and tanbur player Buqi.
Sattar has recorded over 350 songs and is among very few Persian singers who in addition to diverse sound of Pop, performs both Persian traditional and classical music professionally. Sattar has also recorded a number of cover songs in English such as "Feelings", "A time for us", "Speak softly, Love" and "I Believe".
His father, Karim Khan Banān ol-Dowleh (son of Mohammad-Taqi Mirza Fazlollah Khan Mostowfi Nuri) was an admirer of traditional music. [1] His mother was related to the ruling Qajar dynasty of Iran; she was the daughter of Mohammad Taqi Mirza Rokn ed-Dowleh, a brother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (r. 1848–1896). [1]
Mohammad-Reza Lotfi playing tar in a concert. Mohammad-Reza Lotfi died on 2 May 2014 (age of 67) suffering from prostate cancer.According to Hamid Dabashi, Lotfi's death marked "a crucial turning point in the history of classical Persian music and its spectacular rise and fall as a performing public art."