Shahram Nazeri is one of most celebrated singers and a master of the Persian classical and Sufi repertoires. He was born to a musical Kurdish family in Kermanshah, on 18 February 1950. At the age of eight he joined Sufi ensembles and When he was eleven, he sang on Iranian national television. and started to study the traditional repertoire or radif.
He became attracted to the mysteries of Sufism and its music and literature through the works of Mowlana Jelaladin Rumi, Sheikh Attar and others. His teachers include some of the most important exponents of Persian music, Abdollah Davami, Nourali Boroumand, and Mahmood Karimi.
