Arya Songs

Arya Aramnejad has been writing and performing songs from an early age. Most of Arya's compositions are social and political critiques, thus he was not allowed to record them in authorised music studios in Iran as the Ministry of Culture placed severe restrictions not only on the people who run the studios, but on the content of the music they produced. Aramnejad managed to distribute his songs underground and over the internet, and has reached great popularity. He is most famous for his song Ali Barkhiz where he denounces the Islamic regime’s crimes during the 2009 Ashura protests. After this, he lived under threat and was imprisoned several times.