Shahram Nazeri, the "Iranian Pavarotti" at the Asia Society

[atlascn87]

من یکی از دوست داران استاد شجریان هستم. ولی خداوکیلی به این نتیجه رسیدم که تمام کسایی که سنگ شجریان رو به سینه میزنن و از استاد حضرت ساختن، فقط یه مشت آدمای کثیف و بی خرد و بی فرهنگ هستند که تا دیروز نه استاد شجریان رو می شناختن و نه میدونن موسیقی سنتی چیه!

درود فراوان به استاد شهرام ناظری شوالیه آواز ایران

[SamanthaZabalza]

what is that instrument? sounds beautifulll, before i listen that bur i don't know the name, somebady can tell me please..

[iamthemusic69]

@SamanthaZabalza the instrument is SETAR.

[ashfaq2001]

@SamanthaZabalza Persian Sitar

[Max0Inq]

Very good music, indeed.

[AlanMerdin]

Long Live Kurd & Kurdistan!!

[AlanMerdin]

Herbiji Kurd u Kurdistan!!

[may8261]

hala chera tarafdaraye Shajarian inghadr misoozan ta esme Shahram Nazeri miyad?

[persianmusic09]

mardtike man babatam

adam be pedaresh fosh nemide

fahmidi khar kose ??

hala boro jagh bezan

[persianmusic09]

kose nanaye in shahram nazeri ba in sedaye kirish.

kose nanaye hameye tarafdarash

ridam to dahane in agha

[danyele66]

martike kooni,boro hip hopeto goosh kono harfe ezafe nazan

[neverbeeneasy]

@persianmusic09 kiram to kos nanye jendat arab parast kooni bache. madar kooni, khahar jendeh dozd kaseef. kiram to kos madar tamame arabha tamame arabha

[nimaazdk]

1 seri khol o chel omadan inja bi dalil be kasi ke nemishnasan tohin mikonan, 1 nafar nist beheshon bege akhe khodet ki hasti !?

Tohfe bache akhond ??!!

[BastyKurdi]

bzhy kurd

[sadeqin]

in faghat balade arrre arrr bokone..

[arozise]

etefaghan dalile khobie,,,

[arozise]

FUCK U

[arozise]

pavarottie iran? maskhare tar az in nemishe,, khak bar sare shahram konam ke khodesho ba kia moghayese mikone ahmagh kholo chel,, akhe yeki nist behesh bege bichare to bayad khodet bashi,,, na shovalie na pavarottie bad bakhte oghdeii pesare ghollabi az koja ovordi to ke aslan zan nadashti

[p1m4]

حالا از شجریان خوشت میاد دلیل نمیشه بیای به شهرام ناظری توهین کنی. با چاواراتی مقایسه اش میکنند که ذهنیت بدهند به شنوندهء خارجی از همه جا بی خبر. و الا معلومه که هر کس جای خودش رو داره. خواهش میکنم کمی در طرز حرف زدنتون دقت کنید. ممنون

[arozise]

hafez,,,, hafez,,, hala ke dari miri bala ye nargilam bendaz

[SirDelavan]

آره منم زیاد شندیم که این آقای نه چندان با ادب که خیلی هم فریفته ای غرب است پشر خودش نیست و اصلا این آقا عروسی نکرده تا حالا

[AfshinKurdi]

how about the kurdish mamosta... anyway iranian kurds call him either mamosta or ostaad. We dont wanna call him italian this iranian that.. he is a musical genious, period.

[deansusky]

Baba yeki ahanghaye sooznak va karhaye khoobesh ra bogzareh hall konim no talking please man album yadegardoost ra mikhaham please,bichareh delam dar ghame besyar oftad en sher ra mikhaham pleaasaaaaassseeee

[Golnesana]

he is beloved,popular, but what brings people to compare him to Paverotti????

[yashil777]

Ostad Nazeri, brilliant Persian traditional singer,

ASIAN ARYAN POWER.

[chicha1964]

My coment did not have anything to do with who is better or the best. You are right, pavarotti is no Nazer, and Nazer is no Pavarotti. My point is why to even compare? They are an apple and an orange. Just the comparison is an uneducated one.

[chicha1964]

Though he is one of the greatest in the pantheon but I wont call him the "pavarotti".

[fereshtehmeresh]

it astounds me why people usually think ANY damn thing that originated in the west has a higher standard than any other form on earth?!!! well here's the big surprise it's NOT TRUE!

[chicha1964]

you are absolutly right. That is my point. Why should he be compare to Pavarotti? Those who started this comparison they insulted both. Each has his own place in the pantheon.

[fereshtehmeresh]

With all respect for the late paverotti, nor can we Iranians ever call him a "NAZERI"!

open your mind and eyes to see all the different colors of the cultural rainbows that make up all the international cultures and the art & musics they cultivate. Only then will you realize that different tastes like mint and thyme are so nourishing to our tastebuds just BECAUSE they ARE different, not necessarily better or worse than eachother...

peace.

[seshghi]

I just wanted to add that Nazeri was awarded with the FIRST prize & honors in the "World Music" category by Asia Society in 1997 in Fez, and his album was a nominee for the grammy in "world music" just last year....the world is much larger and the arts are more abundant than to be able to measure them all with one stick...Maybe Paverotti is the "Italian Nazeri"!

[sadafraft]

the most PRESTIGIOUS artistic achievement the "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" was proudly presented to Maestro Nazeri in 2007. Let people like dendrix eat their racist hearts out!! :O) BTW dendrix, I do have to give credit for the very POOR and AWFUL quality of the videos posted here of Nazeri, I am SURE u're American, Nazeri is invited by numerous universities and cultural organizations to perform in the US, next time he's around please GO to one of his concerts and judge for yourself.

[sadafraft]

the most PRESTIGIOUS artistic achievement the "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" was proudly presented to Maestro Nazeri in 2007. Let people like dendrix eat their racist hearts out!! :O) BTW dendrix, I do have to give credit for the very POOR and AWFUL quality of the videos posted here of Nazeri, I am SURE u're American, Nazeri is invited by numerous universities and cultural organizations to perform in the US, next time he's around please GO to one of his concerts and judge for yourself.

[sadafraft]

Don't worry everyone.I am POSITIVE this dendrix guy is not even mexican but a white anglo-saxon who thinks the world is as big as his big fat white nose!He probably hasn't seen more than two or three countries, doesn't know anything outside of his small cultural circle hence does NOT know that Paverotti's come in many different forms and voices and languages,like beauty & art. The nickname "Iranian Paverotti" was NOT given to Maestro Nazeri by his fellow Iranians but by world known musicians..

[tabarsi]

Hey friends, why do you fall in the trap of a moron like this guy, who without any knowledge of art or music tries to pollute the nice atmosphere of unity, promoted by Master Nazeri! Without any doubt, he even does not know, who really Luciano Pavarotti is. Let him, be angry, and suffer from his under developed morality! Enjoy the music....

[pos1155]

hey dendrix01, maybe if you weren't so culturally ignorant then maybe you would understand. This music is very special to a lot of people and there are good reasons. So fuck off with your bullshit. Your comments just show that you dont know anything about music and other cultures and overall that you're a stupid fuck.

[dendrix01]

Pos: shit is and will always be shit, no matter where if it comes from Italy, Austria, Burundi or Iran. And you are brilliantly right: any one who considers this music as "art", should be tremendously ignorant. This is a simple and cheap folkloric curiosity, nothing else.

[taraneh23]

dendrix01, what is ur problem u psycho, no one has invited u to listen, so y don't u f..ck off & take ur sh..t with u, apparently u full of it

[dendrix01]

Oh, my friends, why do you get angry? Really, shit like this "music?" is not worth at all... The iranian Pavarotti: the joke of the century!

[sadafraft]

Don't worry everyone.I am POSITIVE this dendrix guy is not even mexican but a white anglo-saxon who thinks the world is as big as his big fat white nose!He probably hasn't seen more than two or three countries, doesn't know anything outside of his small cultural circle hence does NOT know that Paverotti's come in many different forms and voices and languages,like beauty & art. The nickname "Iranian Paverotti" was NOT given to Maestro Nazeri by his fellow Iranians but by world known musicians..

[pos1155]

hey dendrix01, maybe if you

[dendrix01]

Iranian Pavarotti? You must be joking. What the heck does ths guy has in common with the greatest tenors among the greatest? By the way, this music is really awful!

[vollog]

Fuck off asshole! We don't give a damned shit about pavarotti or what so ever... so get the hell out off here and listen to your fucking P music shit!

[dendrix01]

You're right! I will stay away of shit like this or like... Chris de Burgh's. I never thought this kind of shit could be heard by anyone, but I was wrong: there's always out there shit like you! Holy Shit!

[dendrix01]

You're right! I will stay away of shit like this or like... Chris de Burgh's. I never thought this kind of shit could be heard by anyone, but I was wrong: there's always out there shit like you! Holy Shit!

[twinks76]

Oh for gods sake, why are you here then, youve posted this comment so many times, if you dont like it, leave it and leave out all the sillyness that shows you up to be a very immature small minded freak. I'd love to know what cd is currently in your player....I wonder maybe if its shit!!!

[twinks76]

That comment was actually a reply to dendrix the freakweasel.

This music is lovely!!!

[dendrix01]

You're right! I will stay away of shit like this or like... Chris de Burgh's. I never thought this kind of shit could be heard by anyone, but I was wrong: there's always out there shit like you! Holy Shit!

[dendrix01]

Iranian Pavarotti? You must be joking. What the heck does ths guy has in common with the greatest tenors among the greatest? By the way, this music is really awful!

[maymonk]

I love how persians take credit for everything. Shahram Nazeri, Cyrus..Xerxes...the kurds were the only ones who beat Alexander, who had Sulahuddin, who had poets who are mentioned in the koran. They want to compare a kurd to a fucking iranian? take the shit off whoever posted that video and write the KURDISH PAVAROTTI U DUMB FUCK

[bahaaran]

i long for the day that, the kurdish people become independent and leave my homeland.

[blacksmith8844]

all we are doing is fighting over stupid shit like this... and who do u think benefits from that? THINK! what we need to do instead is unite.

This music is beautiful and Shahram Nazeri's message is to bring ppl of all tribes together.

[zipapa]

the world would definitely be a great place if we learn to ACCEPT EACH OTHER not ATTACK each other! do you listen to shahram nazeri's lyrics? does it tell to kill or to love?

[zipapa]

do we have any kurdish classes or turkish classes in let's say tehran? NO! and since when language or culture indicates 'nationality'? our genes as kurds or persians are the same! and dont refer to me or us as people who decided what to do for the region! i'm just a peace-lover and would luv to learn about all the cultures in the world as they all have wonderful aspects but only if we put our angry minds in our back pockets! history is the past, we are living in present making our future.

[maymonk]

iranians are 60% turk, and then theres a few aryans and arabs etc. DO NOT COMPARE pure blooded kurds to a bunch of mongol turks. they have done genetic testing and hace found the majority of supposed aryan persians are axtually turk. I suggest you check the research, dumbass.

[zipapa]

the previous comment was a reply to salahmohammadi! dont know why it appeared here!

[zipapa]

pavarotti??? who titled this? this is spiritual music not pop opera!!!!!

[behnam557]

he's good. i like his songs. but he's not Iran's Pavarotti. as long as there is Ostad Shajarian, nobody is Iran's pavarotti. why we make them spoiled with the flattering. all iranian singers are part of our musical history. but everyone has his own place. nazeri is nazeri and shajarian is himself.

[shahvishtasp]

@babatahirauriani

common go and get yourself a life bro

you're always talking about kurdish and kurdistan OK

everybody knows that nazeri is an iranian kord. but he sings also in persian he and his son speak farsi! they love iran and make iranian music. in fact nazeris maestro was shajarian, a persian. however this clip had nothing to do with kordestan...

[AREZUBABA]

My comment was not something against this video. It was rather an end part of my other comment which was not printed; I don't why but this is so. I am very much in favor of this kind of music. And I am pretty sure that this kind of art is absolutely beautiful and out of this world. HEAVENLY GOOD.

[AREZUBABA]

"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACHEIVE????"

[azooas]

interesting

[kharrazi1990]

ah!bas konin in jarobahse mozakhrafo tucommentatun.yechera shoma irania darin ba ham dava mikonin?che korda va che farsa jofteshun as nejade aryayiyan ke az aval tu iran zendegi mikard,kourosh kabiresh az iran nam mibord na "pars" hala shoma umadin kaseye daghtar az ash shodino zer zer mikonin?!

mohem ine ke irani bashi

mohem ine ke aryayi bashi

zende bad iran.kurds will be in iran forever

[salahmohammadi]

kaka shahram is Kurdistani Pavarotti and not Iran?

we as the Kurish wwill not make the same mistake that we had done everything in Persians name.

from now on thir will be nothing done in persians name and we will divide Iran if same thing happens to it like Iraq and in that time all the Kurdish sinngers, leaders and youth will represent thir own mom's land NOT SOME TRAITERS LIKE THE PERSIAN PEOPLE WHO GAVE MORE THAN HALF OF OUR COUTRY TO TURKY.

[feric77]

well u better talk for yourself, not for all Kurdish People! This is a problem many small minded people have, they think what they wish in their mind is what all others want! Just ask Shahram nazeri himself, if he likes to be considered Iranian or not, and howmany of his songs is based on persian peotry???!!!

Of course he has many beautiful kurdish songs as well,

[salahmohammadi]

hey body most more than 80% of his songs are baba taher's poems which whom he was a kurd not a persian or Iranian and if u say we all r iranians so why aren't we allowd to speak in our mother's tong or language which is kurdish and iranians mean persians not the other nations in ur beuriful country

[Cyrus7500]

Sorry but alot of his songs are from Molana and Hafez don`t give false info. He is a Persian Kurd like there are alot of Armenian Iranians so you can say both. And Persians didn`t give half of Kurdistan to turkey go learn History first. Other than that Persians treated the Kurds better than any other parts were kurdish People are living. And i love both of his songs kurdish and persian songs.

[salahmohammadi]

ur telling ,e to go and read history so why don't u go read about ur king safaweeeeee's fight against the otmans in Turkey in where u won the fight first because of kurds and then the second time u lostso ur king didn't want to be removed and gave half of (KURDISTAN) to turkey u treaters and unfaithfyl people , thire is no persian kurds

persian is Pars or fars kurd is kurdnot pearsian and when we get a chance we will divide urcountry just like we did in (IRAQ)body

[Cyrus7500]

It was becouse Persians did have an idiot as a King who couldn`t win the war and retreated which i agree of but that doesn`t mean every Persian is like him. Your judgement is like hey every kurd is the same which is wrong and every persian isn`t the same aswell. and your name is mohammadi what went wrong with you then kurds tend to be yazidi and not muslim. FOr your info Kurds have their own territory in iran go inform yourself.

[zipapa]

r u out of your mind?? what's this prejudice over ethnicity? first of all who stopped kurds from speaking kurdish or developing their culture? all iranians have to LEARN TO ACCEPT AND RESPECT the diversity in the nation. being persian is NOTHIING but knowing to speak persian. where we're standing now is due to the efforts of our multi-cultural nation and if we dont value this, we'll be doomed! can't u learn from history that WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER!? go cool yourself down with some music dude!!!

[salahmohammadi]

body if you guys haven't stopped us or not stopping us from learning kurdish why can't study abd write kurdish in all the provinces in east of kurdistan in where u guys have occupied it for more than 500 years and still do.

[salahmohammadi]

iran isn't just multi caltureal but it is multi national also don't you now that or you just hide your self from the truth .

all the iranian governments fro the last 500 haundred years till now are stopping us from speaking our mothers language,thts for all the other nations in iran

[zipapa]

oh dear! it's really sad that we still have to argue about borderlines in 21st century! culture i usnderstand but borders na'a! and if kurdish is to be tought that's for kurds to do so not for persian speaking people to teach kurdish or turkish or any other dialectic in iran!!

[salahmohammadi]

ok where have we sad that you persians or the other ethnic groups in so called Iran to study kurdish at school or spek kurdish but you now and the whole world nows that you as the persian are telling and making us as the kurds and the other ethnic groups to study persian, write in farsi and speak farsi in the government building or even in the supermarkets.

why is it sad for us to talk about border lines in 21 centry next week Kosovo in Europe will declare independence in Europe.

[maymonk]

in iran they have to learn arabic. how sad is that? at least we haven't assimilated our entire language to arabic. in Bashur, they now teach kurdish and english instead of arabic like iran. iran is full of arab lovers and nasty ass turks.

[salahmohammadi]

Remember we in the south of Kurdistan are independence and soon enough the other parts will be independence and all 4 parts of KURDISTAN will be united again and we will be the best country in the middle east oh we haven't been free in all the 4 parts Europe wants us to be part of Eropean Union and they call us european.and by the way do u understan culture but not border lines is it because u as the persian will be left alone with no friends in the world and become the poorest in middle east.

[zipapa]

if that's all kurds want,cheers to that!

i dont understand ur hostility! open your heart man! let's share what we cherish in life not make more walls around us! elevate your soul, knowledge and creativity instead of caring about false politics! if you see value in your culture promote it insteada of wasting our time prejedice! have more interesting ideas to offer to the world! and if being european is better than being 'middle eastern' grow up! listen more deeply to nazeri's lyrics if you care!

[salahmohammadi]

actually we were not the ones that made walls in the first place you guys and the turkies in 1514 who devided kurdistan for ur interests and ur so called countries and the only thing that we want is our homelands nothing else and can u tell me how is that a wall in where we want our rights and homes back and if it is walls so we want walls around us so that we have a voice in the united nations and in the whole world, y do u have a wall around us ? y can't we have one like u also.

[BabaTahirAuriani]

Shahram really representing the true Kurdish music. good job

[shahvishtasp]

@babatahirauriani

common go and get yourself a life bro

you're always talking about kurdish and kurdistan OK

everybody knows that nazeri is an iranian kord. but he sings also in persian he and his son speak farsi! they love iran and make iranian music. in fact nazeris maestro was shajarian, a persian. however this clip had nothing to do with kordestan...

[shahvishtasp]

@babatahirauriani

common go and get yourself a life bro

you're always talking about kurdish and kurdistan OK

everybody knows that nazeri is an iranian kord. but he sings also in persian he and his son speak farsi! they love iran and make iranian music. in fact nazeris maestro was shajarian, a persian. however this clip had nothing to do with kordestan...

[arashk83]

With all do respect, he is really out of tune, as alway. the emotion is good thou.

And by the way, Maestro Shajarian is irans "Pavarotti" not Shahram Nazeri.

[chupan]

it's kinda weird that people are talking about who's the "real" pavarotti... in my opinion mr. nazeri and shajarian are more than pavarotti with their soul in their voice!

even mr. nazeri and shajarian don't see them as rivals as u people do! stop being so childish! they are both great and they both have my full respect!

[cosmlayla]

He's so much more than Pavoratti.

His voice has soul.

[hardasanaskiq]

Please do not compare anybody like Mr. Nazeri with somebody like Pavrotti, That is completely

wrong and the people just laugh to us.Even though Mr. Nazeri is great.!

[baju74]

Nazeri is still good but used to be better 25 years ago. I think he does not take care of his voice that much. He has never been the Pavarotti of Iran. However, his master, Ostad Shajarian, is even better than Pavarotti since Pavarotti is a tenor vs Shajarian whose voice covers a wide vocal range.

[jojoejoe]

He is phenomenon, especially his coverage of Rumi poems...

[sorani01]

You should see his kurdish songs they are great.....He is with Kamkar Grup

[tubesrw]

"Pavarotti of Iran" is really to exaggerate!! I myself do not care for him or his voice, and to make a statement like that is really unfair towards the many really good singers Iran has and has had!

[iransalaam]

inspirational singer as i told before i really enjoy his voice

[joesarr58]

good job.