Alireza Assar


Alireza Assar is an Iranian musician and Persian pop singer and composer, and piano and guitar player.

Biography

The oldest child of a four-member family in Tehran, His studied the piano under the supervision of Kavous Samandar, Javad Maaroufi and Mostafa Pourtorab. His first concert was in Aboureihan-e Birooni Hall in Shahid Beheshti University at age 16. Since then he had several concerts worldwide.
He began his career as a pop singer in March 1997 by performing "Eidaneh" on television. His first album, Kouch-e Asheghaneh, published in 1999, with the hit single "Ghodsiane Aseman" made him one of the most popular singers of the new generation of pop singers after the Islamic Revolution.
He continued his career with Foad Hejazi as his co-worker and band director. He released four more albums with Hejazi and toured many cities in Iran with him.
In 2006, Assar started a new genre of Persian pop in collaboration with renowned conductor, Shahrdad Rohani and the London Symphony Orchestra. Open Secret comprises seven pieces inspired by poems from Ahmad Shamlou, Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, Afshin Yadollahi, Shahkar Bineshpajuh, and Afshin Moqaddam. The work was recorded in Abbey Road Studio.
After that album, Assar released two more albums, Mohtaseb and Bazi Avaz Shodeh.

Discography

Studio albums