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 ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: Iranian pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been banned after publishing a music video criticizing constant wars and bloodshed. In part of the song, Yarrahi's lyrics translate to "Death won again, Wisdom lost again, All our ...
Independent aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: It appears that this December, the majority of the half million Iranian Americans living in Southern California prefer to celebrate Christmas and New year near home instead of travelling to Las Vegas for the annual ...
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: It is rare to hear well-crafted fusion music of Persian, Jazz and classical genres but Passion Dance, the work released this Summer by Makan Foundation, is an audio visual feast for the senses that masterfully ...
Earlier this year, some 17000 Iranian Americans attended one of the largest and perhaps most political Persian concerts in Los Angeles' history, performed by Iranian diva Googoosh at the Hollywood Bowl./Many in the audience were ecstatic when Googoosh ended the concert with ...
