Biography
Amanj Azarmi
The time when he was an 8-year-old boy sneaking around reaching to the guitar on the top of the closet due to his inner childhood curiosity and enthusiasm which made it fall down and break he had no idea what that instrument would mean in his future. Amanj Azarmi as we consider him one of the best singers of his generation is mostly self-taught, only taking four or five lessons from Bijan Pourgol when he was 12 years old, and some lessons from his older brother,Omid Azarmi.

When he was a teenager he wrote lyrics and melodies and started his musical experience in his home's basement, recording his music with a double deck cassette recorder. playing an already recorded part from one deck and recording in the other deck time and again to make a sequenced piece and then singing on it. The piece that we know it now as Bitdozmewe was written when he was 15 years old and was the accomplishment of one of those experiences. Then when he was 16 years old he formed a musical band in Sanandaj, a city in Kurdestan. Although he was not the singer, he was the its director and composer. While most of his friends were into Classical music because of those days in, he believed that he should make what belongs to him, something that he could represent himself in it. At the age of eighteen he went to college and studied Cinema majoring in Animation. He got his Associate degree from University of Applied Science and Technology.

Studying in the university he made lasting friendship with some people like Amir Moqimi, now one of the best photographers and video maker in Iran, and Majid Panahi, now a video and movie maker. "Amanj's lyrics are very different, very honest, and so passionate," Moqimi uttered. And Panahi believes that he has a wonderful voice. Amanj attributed his musical taste to the good music which he listened to as a kid because of his brother's taste. Amir Moqimi directed his first music video entitled "Parsehzan"(which means the wanderer in English) in 2003. There are some stories behind the recording of "Parsehzan." While he was recording the soundtrack in a studio in Tehran he made acquaintance with a man named Hamid Reza Yaraqchian who asked for Amanj's assistance in composing TV series' music. He accepted and composed the melody for a TV series called "Mehr-o-Mah" (which means The Sun and the Moon). There was no contract and Amanj made it out of goodness of his heart but after 3 months the series was shown on TV and the name of the composer appeared to be Hamid Reza Yaraqchian! While recording the same soundtrack he was acquainted and made friends with Sai'd Kazemi, a composer, who helped him arranging and recording "Bitdozmewe" giving him his musical equipments. Kazemi also helped him collect and rearrange a set of Kurdish folklore melodies which was supposed to be Amanj's first musical album but when he traveled to Iraq to publish and distribute the album he faced no enthusiasm regarding the album for two reasons. first he was not famous enough and second they believed that his musical style would lead to nowhere. It was a set back. "Kemere Sil" that was one of the pieces which were supposed to be on that album found its way out unintentionally and was distributed by the people who liked it. They attributed the unknown piece to Shadmehr Aqili. It is worth mentioning that the music video of "Bitdozmewe" was made there. When he came back to Iran he was depressed for a period of time and music was not as important to him as before. The skeleton of some pieces such as "Taraneh Goft," Qadam Qadam," "Khodahafez," and "Hamishe ba Man Bash" formed in that period,though. When he thinks about that period now he smiles and says that he was waiting for the others to make a change. Of course that failure motivated him to make his second album "Bitdozmewe."

Sai'd Kazemi also introduced him to Bernard Israeler, a generous man who gave a guitar to Amanj as a present, a guitar that is very dear to him and he plays that instrument in almost all of his music. Israeler had a friend who was one of the Arminian President's artistic advisers, he introduced Amanj to him and he liked his music and his voice, so he invited him to a festival in Arminia in which Amanj couldn't participate because of some personal problems.

During his musical career Amanj worked with some well-known people. He played the guitar in Nima Masiha's album called Shabe Sorbi but because of a typographical error his name was printed Amanj Azarsi. Fereidoun Shahbazian also promised him to help him record and distribute his album but for some reasons this cooperation never happened. He also worked with Roozbeh Mosleh. Roozbeh's first and second albums were mixed and mastered by Amanj and some pieces were recorded by him.

Amanj's first album "Bitdozmewe" was released in 2011 by Vin TV company. It consists of 8 tracks 4 of which were supposed to appear in his first album and the others are his more recent pieces. All pieces are in Kurdish and they are Pop or Pop rock. The lyrics are composed by Hamid Sharifi, Simin Chaichi, Shaho Mahmudi, and shahdom Alimohamadi. Amanj composed, arranged and mixed the music for all the tracks, and some of them were recorded in Tehran studios and some in his personal studio in Sanandaj.

Amanj made a lot of music videos the first of which was "Parsehzan" that was shown on PMC in 2005. It was one of first music videos of the Iranian singers who lived inside Iran. The second one was a cover of the Italian singer Gigi D'Alessio's "Sei Importante" which was shown on PMC and Iran Music. "Khodahafez," "Hamishe ba Man Bash," and Kemere Sil" all directed by Jacob Alison were shown on PMC. And "Khodahafez" reached to the number 8 in PMC's Top 20. Amanj appeared for the first time on TV in an artistic program on Zagros TV in Iraq.

Now Amanj lives in Sanandaj and works in Canzone studio which was founded by Amanj and his friend Behzad Salari. He is working of his second Album which would be in Persian and he hopes to release in 2012. He is also working on some new music videos.




A Kurdish Rock Band formed in 2001 in Mahabad, Iran

این صفحه رسمی پادکست کمپین حقوق بشر در ایران است. مجموعه‌ پادکست‌های «داد بی‌ داد» با نگارش و اجرای امید مهرگان آخرین محصول شنیداری کمپین حقوق بشر در ایران است که قصد دارد تا به مفاهیم بنیادین حقوق بشر بپردازد؛ به شرایط و معنای دادن «حق» گرفتن و نقض آن. ما در این مجموعه پادکست قصد داریم به‌میانجی «نقد» و نقد «میانجی‌ها»، پاسخی برای این پرسش بیابیم که «چگونه می‌شود متفاوت بود بی هیچ هراسی؟»
هفت قسمت اول این پادکست از جنبه‌های مختلف «مجازات اعدام» در ایران بحث می‌کند و فصل دوم این مجموعه «سلول انفرادی» را بررسی و واکاوی می‌کند.

Born in 1976 in Khorasan province, one of epicenters of poetry and music north east of Iran, Mohsen Namjoo is a Singer Songwriter, Music scholar and Setar (traditional Persian lute) player currently based in New York City. Featured on many world renowned press such as NY Times, The Guardian, BBC, LA times and many more Namjoo is considered a visionary artist who speaks for the youth in Iran. Seamlessly blending the Classical Persian music and scales with electric guitar,Rock and Blues vocal techniques with Persian Avaz (singing). He fuses the ancient with the current. His unique style of singing and effortless mixture of music from east and west has made him an iconic persona in contemporary world music.

Since his arrival to the U.S. in 2009, Namjoo has been touring the world to sold out concerts at prestigious halls including Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco; Conservatorio Sala Verdi, Milan, Italy;  Disney Hall and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Barbican Hall, London, Symphony Space NYC, Volkswagen Arena Istanbul and many more. He is one of the few middle eastern artists who has following all across the world from Tehran to New York to Melbourne to Istanbul to Berlin and many more cities.

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