Sedaye Honar (Sound of Art) record label will release the album which includes 12 songs composed by Radmanesh with romantic and spiritual lyrics.

Radmanesh’s first album as singer in ‘Oh Heart’ was released in Iran in 2015 in which he had his first duet with Sami.

A multi-talented artist in music and poetry, Radmanesh has been a musician, composer, lyricist, poet, teacher and a singer for over three decades.

He was born in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, and studied music at the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran.

He is an expert on and an instructor of Persian instruments tar, setar, santour, barbat, kamancheh, tonbak and ney. He plays the violin, piano and keyboard. He benefited from the teachings of great music masters like violinists Abulhassan Saba and Ali Tajwidi and kamancheh player Asghar Bahari.

Radmanesh is an erudite lyricist. His book of poetry ‘Moonlight of Love’ was published in 2009 by the Badragheye Javidan Publications in Tehran. The 191-page book is the result of his decades of professional career in the UK and contains sonnets, odes, quatrains and couplets.

He has to his credit numerous works both in traditional Iranian music and pop genres and was active as a composer and a musician with the state broadcaster IRIB for ten years.

Notable among his works is the piece on the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war ‘Pilots’ performed by singer Jamshid. The lyrics are a combination of Farsi and Azeri language and written by Radmanesh.

International Muslim Singer

Sami Yusuf is a well-known singer in the world whose fame emanates largely from the religious themes he uses in his songs.

The famous Muslim singer, songwriter and composer of Azarbaijani descent, Yusuf, 37, was born in Tehran. He grew up in London and learned the piano, violin, tambourine, tabla, lute, and Persian instruments tar, santur and daf.

Born as Siamak Radmanesh, he later chose the artistic nickname Sami Yusuf. He sings in English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Azeri and Malay to complement his multi-instrumental art. He has so far released seven albums.

He gained widespread fame with his self-produced groundbreaking debut album ‘Al-Muallim’, which sold well over 7 million copies and earned him a massive following in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

In his 2015 album ‘Songs of the Way’, he was assisted by his father and other Iranian musicians in playing some traditional Persian instruments. Despite being born in Iran and singing in Persian, he has not performed in Iran yet. However, he has held several concerts, including in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UAE.

Source: Financial Tribune