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Farman Fathalian
12+ albums
PersianpopIraniansufirock
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Farman Fathalian was born in 1970 in Tehran. When he was five years old, his parents encouraged him to learn the violin in a music institute. After the Islamic revolution, he played different musical instruments and gradually guitar became his specialty. In 1992, he performed his first guitar concert at the Centre for Mental Nurture of Children and Teenagers cinema in Tehran, which attracted much attention. Farman Fathalian is best known as a devotee of Ali-ibn-i-Abi-Talib, who is the first leader, after Islam's prophet, in Shiite and the fourth caliph in Sunni religions. In music, he intelligently mixes these religious aspects with elements of Indian instruments like tabla as well as acoustic/electric guitar, bass, and drums. After 1992, during several travels to India, he became familiar with Indian temples and the history of Indian theosophy and traditional Indian music. In his continued journeys to India, he also learned to play the Indian tabla from Usman Khan and companioned with many Qawwals. Indian Qawwali music has had a profound effect on his musical thought. In 1998, after six years, he performed a guitar recital in Golestan cultural house in Tehran, and in the same year, he won the brilliant performance award in the first Iranian popular music festival. He composes and arranges almost all of his songs and plays Spanish/acoustic guitar, tabla, keyboards, and percussion. Also he has recorded a few songs with lyrics by himself as well. Farman has recorded three alb
