Sima Bina Singer of local songs

Bina has also designed her own clothing, both for herself and her band, and created set designs. While studying painting, she learnt from Abdollah Davami, a master of Iranian music, and set out to put together a collection of folk songs. Her search began at her place of birth, Khorasan, where she listened to villagers singing old folk songs, wrote them down and eventually added them to her collection. This revived songs that the younger generation had never heard and made them available to city-dwellers.