Mohsen Namjoo

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Mohsen Namjoo (Persian: محسن نامجو‎‎) is an Iranian singer-songwriter. His style of music is influenced by blues and rock as well as Iranian folk music. The lyrics of his songs are also a combination of Persian classical poems, his own lyrics, and contemporary poems; Namjoo uses the words freely, infusing them with irony and sarcasm to carry the music and to create a free style form of singing.…

Known for

• Mitra — Mohsen2021
• Syphonic odyssey 2020 — Mohsen namjoo2020
• Radio Dreams — Hamid2017
• Farhad's Fridays — Himself2012
• A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral — Abbas2006
• Relax with Diazepam 10 — Himself2005

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1976-03-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

36,832

Total plays

1,468,437

Mohsen Namjoo (Persian: محسن نامجو) was born in 1976 in Torbat-e Jam, Iran. When he was one year old, his family moved to Mashhad where he spent the next seventeen years of his life. When he was 12 his father, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, died. A few months later, his family encouraged him to start attending music classes. He started classical Persian vocal music with Ali Shakeri and solfège with Kaivan Alaee. Soon after, he got to know Ali Shakeri through Nasrollah Nasehpoor on a trip to Tehran. <a

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Mohsen

Gender

male

Citizenship

Iran

Place of birth

Torbat-e Jam

Occupation

actor

Languages spoken

Persian

Genre

folk music

Instrument

voice

Official website

www.mohsennamjoo.com

Image

Mohsen Namjoo, New York 2013.jpg

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