Entertainment, Culture Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /Desert Rose (1999), a duet performance of British singer known as Sting and Algerian raï singer Cheb Mami, was one of first commercially successful world music intercultural mixes that brought western and eastern music together. ...
Culture and Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /For the first time musical work by twice Grammy-nominated Iranian-American composer, Richard Danielpour, is performed at the prestigious Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, by pianist ...
Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /She was once called the hottest woman in America but nowadays she seems aged and under a lot of stress. Last month a disheveled-looking, once-legendary pop music star Britney Spears, was seen celebrating Easter in the Montage hotel in ...
Culture and Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: /Founded in Paris in 2010 within the cultural association BAHAR (association for the purpose of organizing intercultural exchanges between young people from different backgrounds), the Paris-Est Philharmonic Orchestra is not ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-Related News/Events, Kodoom.com: A group of Shia Muslims in Iraq now use a style of religious (Mahdavi) rap music and songs during their mourning ceremonies for their Imams, according to a report by Euronews:/A group of Shia clerics support the ...
A Turkish cleric who hit headlines as a "rocker imam," has been dismissed from his profession by Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, after co-founding a music band. [http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkeys-rocker-imam-dismissed-by-religious-authority-137572 ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Opium Moon, a self-titled debut album by the Los Angeles-based multi-cultural musical ensemble "Opium Moon" has received a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. And the album's and ...
Culture and Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial /NIYAZ is perhaps the only Iranian-descent group which has been described by the Huffington Post as "an evolutionary force in contemporary Middle Eastern music" and featured so often in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Matrix, ...
Entertainment Blog, Kodoom.com Editorial: Some 40 years after Iran's Islamic revolution, which kind of started a mass exodus, an estimated 4 million Iranians now claim residence outside the country. And the most powerful segment of this population, when it comes to deciding ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: On the 100th anniversary of Tehran's famed music conservatory, youth boys and girls orchestras performed, separately, in Tehran's Roudaki Hall music compositions by grandmasters such as Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Faramarz ...
