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Artist
Evin Agassi
12+ albums
nadirlucas
about
I started to sing when I was a kid at school. In my teens, I trained at the Iranian National Radio and Television Station in the music section. I started with Assyrian songs, thereafter, Persian songs. I started working with many famous Iranian poets and composers, and produced many popular songs, which were broadcasted on the radio and TV stations, many of them reaching the top ten records of the time. In 1976, I was invited to the United States for some concerts in California and Chicago, which were very successful. Going back to Iran, I produced many new songs based upon my nice experience in the United States. I produced some social political songs, forgetting the censorship in Iran. These songs, which reflected mostly about the humanities, equality, and freedom, were collected by the government and banned. In such an atmosphere, I decided to move to a democratic country as the Untied States, where my dreams of social and political freedom became a reality. But this reality was not favored by Middle Eastern governments, such as Iraq...where my songs were banned and my name was put on the black list of Saddam Hussein. That government did not like my songs that awoke the Assyrians (my people) of Iraq, to wanting peace, freedom, equality, justice, and human rights. Because Iraq is a created country which came into being after World War I, in actuality, the whole country is ancient Assyria and Babylon. From 1980 and onward, I sang more than two hundred songs which we
