Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When protests broke out in Iran in 2009 over the fraudulent presidential election, one of the country’s leading artists stood up ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian may be the most famous singer in all of Iran. He's also Iran's most famous protest singer — even though, strictly speaking, his music doesn't directly protest the government at ...

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian performs at the Durham Performing Arts Center Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5–$55. See Duke Performances. Amir Rezvani pauses a moment before he can talk about it.

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, an Iranian master singer of traditional Persian music, known for supporting a 2009 protest movement, died at 80. Remembering Iranian singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian (SOUNDBITE ...

Iran's legendary classical singer and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian dies Iranians around the world flooded their social media accounts with tributes, songs and poetry dedicated to legendary Iranian ...

Internationally-acclaimed Iranian virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor has won the WOMEX 19 Artist Award for “bringing the Persian classical music tradition to the ears of people all over the world.” Kalhor ...

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Joined by three excellent collaborators, Shajarian gives what amounts to a brief master class in the art of singing. In the course of this love... Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Tiny Desk Concert Every Tiny ...

The Iranian singer is the country's most famous protest singer — even though, strictly speaking, his songs don't directly denounce the... Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Protest Through Poetry Mohammad Reza ...

When protests broke out in Iran in 2009 over the fraudulent presidential election, one of the country’s leading artists stood up against the regime and its violent repression of demonstrators.