Filed under: Iran
Manouchehr is from Iran. I have not been able to find any information about him, except that his last name is either Sakhai or Sakhaie…
Unfourtunately, when Farsi is translated into English… You tend to get many different variations depending on who translated the text. For instance, I have seen multiple different spellings on the name Kourosh Yaghmaie (Yaghamaie, Yaghmayee, Yaghmaee…) as well as two totally different spellings for The Remarkables (Aajubehaa and Ojoobeha).
Thanks to Arash who runs a very informative blog on Iranian music on MySpace called Fars Funk. Keep an eye out for his compilation “Pomegranates”, which is to be released on the B-Music label.
Catalog number SARE-1045 on Ahang Rooz (which means “Song Of The Day”) of Iran, no release date given.
Filed under: Iran
This song, which title translates into “Hey Girl”, was recorded with the band Golden Ring.
Born Aref Arefkia, he introduced Western melodies with romantic lyrics to Iran in the 1960’s at a time when the only kind of popular music was in “Tasnif” style. Aref was one of the pioneers of this trend. This style was quite popular among the youth, so much that at the age of 21 he was invited to appear and sing on the Iranian National Television.
His first hit was “Daryacheye Noor” which is still popular among most Iranians to this day. Aref was also a very popular singer for movie soundtracks. His songs were heard on numerous Iranian films of the 1960’s & early 1970’s among which “Gholam Gandarm” and “Soltan-e Ghalbha” are the most famous. He also appeared in six different musical films.
Aref received many awards, one of which was granted to him by the Shah himself. Aref received the Highest Cultural Imperial Medallion from the Shah for singing at the Asian Games of 1974 in Iran. In this concert with Tehran’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Aref sang in front of 100,000 Iranians and in the presence of many International state officials and dignitaries. Aref performed his first concert out of Iran in New York City in Madison Square to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the American Independence.
Aref and his family left Iran in 1979, following the Islamic revolution. He first lived in London for a period of 3 years, then moved to Los Angeles, California.
Thanks to Delaram Koushyar for translating the Farsi for me.
Catalog number C – 2126 for MonoGram Records of Iran. No release date listed.
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