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Artist
Siavash Nazeri
12+ albums
DAFIraniankurdishClassicalpercussion
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Autobiography I was born in Tehran in an artist family. My grand-parents were apt to learn music. My grand-father played and sang, and my grand-mother has a pleasant and sweet voice. My uncle –Shahram Nazeri– grew up in such a family and with such parents. He also had a good voice, and with his soft and kind heart he could enter the world of spiritual music. He lived with his parents and we were lived in their neighborhood, we all lived together in a friendly, poetic and artistic atmosphere. This is how I first came to know music and poesy. Whatever he sang, I repeated and whispered and I imagined myself singing like him or simply being him. He was my icon, my idol. At the age of 9, when I first saw the Daf in Shahram Nazeri’s “Shour-Angiz” concert, it was as if I was taken in a dream. I was fascinated by its mystic tone. It was in the same year -1989- when I first touched the Daf and started playing it. I played 10 hours per day. I practiced, listened, repeated and did not give up. Unfortunately, in this way I did not have any encouragement and there was nobody who may have been listening to me and understanding me. My father was totally opponent to my desire and he believed that in the way I had just started, I would not succeed and it would even prevent me from advancing in my real life! However, I did not give up and I worked even harder and more seriously as if my father’s disagreement had given me more force to show him the opposite and to make him have more confide
