Abdi Behravanfar
Iranian singer
Abdi Behravanfar (Persian: عبدی بهروانفر; born in Mashhad, Khorasan, 1975) is an Iranian singer and songwriter. He is founder of the MUD band, based in Mashhad. He plays the guitar, harmonica and dotar (Persian folk lute). He learned guitar with Fleming Khoshghadami and dotar with Master Bakshi Almajughi.
Behravanfar has recorded nearly 40 songs, in five studio albums with the others as singles. The 2 albums, Shalamroud and Kokheo & Kalakhet were released by two production companies in the United States. The first one by Bamahang Production and the second album released by Zirzamin Production. In 2012, "White Dwarf" and in 2013 "Sorrow", were released by CD Baby. He also has performed as a film-score player for short films.
He produced and released an album by Bakhshi Almajughi in 2017; Behravanfar also produced a documentary about him showed in BBC Persian.
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