Sharam Nazeri (Iran) SUFI SONGS FROM IRAN
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Sharam Nazeri was born in 1950 in Kermansha in Iranian Kurdistan into a family where music occupies a very special place. At the behest of his father, from the age of eight he began participating in Sufi gatherings, where he sang poems by the great Persian mystic Mevlana Jallauddine Rumi, founder of the Order of the Mevlevi Dervishes.
At the age of eleven, having begun the study of Radif, the complex and ancient corpus of ancient Iranian music and song, he appeared on television for the first time.
Sharam Nazeri was the disciple of some of the greatest masters
of Persian music of the past century, such as Abdollah Davani,
Nourali Boroumand, Mahmood Karimi.
In 1975 he won first prize for singing in the most prestigious
traditional music competition in Iran.
Highly respected in his country, this talented singer, with his rare voice, is called the Persian nightingale, and is totally dedicated to his art, living aloof from the fashions and easy attractions of urban agitation, even though he lives in Tehran.
This very demanding man, unusually absorbed in the spiritual import of the music, keeps his public concerts and recordings to a minimum and surrounds himself with a very limited number of students and disciples. His warm, deep voice, with its sometimes heart rending tones, sings the texts of great mystical poets such as Rumi, Hafez or Saadi, the search of man for the Divine and man's unquenchable thirst for Love and Light.
In the midst of his small traditional ensemble he happily plays
the Daf, the drum on a frame often used in ritual music of Sufi
Sama. He is surrounded by his virtuoso musicians on the Zarb,
and the Tar. Sharam Nazeri, one of the foremost musicians on the
Iranian music stage today, performs all over the world.