Nazeri’s career is not yet over, but he will surely be remembered for the important role he played in keeping Sufi musical traditions alive in Iran and for promoting Iranian cultural awareness outside Iran at a time when the country’s image in the West often was dominated by negative images.
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.
