Iranian Singer/ Songwriter/ Instrumentalist

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یک ریسمان فکندی، بردی‌م بر بلندی
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Danial Khorsandi, known as Dani Khorsandi, is a MashUp composer living in Los Angeles, California. He is a pharmacist/Scientist. His focus is on traditional/Classical Persian vocal music (known as Avaz) and he arranges/mixes them with electronic/pop music in order to make them digestible for the new generation and non-Persian music lovers.

Moody (Mohammad Moussavi) is an Iranian Rock Guitarist, Singer, Composer, and Music Producer, born May 14th, 1995 in Rasht.

Shayan Gorji is a Persian Composer and Music Producer and Multi-instrumentalist who started and continued playing music with Percussion Instruments at the age of 6, and learned Piano and Guitar & Sound Engineering as a teenager.

He has performed and activated as Arranger and Singer in many traditional and fusion Iranian music groups concerts.

He attaches great importance to the minimalism and simplicity of his pieces, and his goal in his pieces is to combine Persian traditional music with other world music styles and genres in order to familiarize and express the understanding of Iran's cultural and musical similarities with other countries of the world.

Aida Shahghasemi is a Minneapolis based musician with roots in Iran. She studied Psychology and Anthropology at University of Minnesota with a focus on the cultural aspects of Persian Classical Music and the restrictions imposed on the voices of Iranian female vocalists. She received her Masters degree from New York University in Arts Politics where she also served as an adjunct instructor teaching a course she developed on arts activism in Iran. She has worked with a number of different Art and Social Advocacy groups in New York and Minnesota as a musician, graphic designer, and developer and has served as an Assistant Program Coordinator at Hamline University’s Making Waves Social Justice Theatre Troupe. She has been a touring member of Iron and Wine and Marketa Irglova’s band while also being a recording artist on two of Glen Hansard’s albums. Her three albums are “Wind Between the Horse’s Ears,” released in 2015, “Cypress of Abarkooh,” released in 2019 and “Chashmandaaze Rooydaad,” released in August of 2022. She is a McKnight Music Fellow and serves as an adjunct faculty in the MFA program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Aida is a mental health therapist at Hiraeth Psychotherapy and works primarily with adults and couples dealing with trauma.

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