Davood Azad
Background information
Born6 October 1963
Urmia, Iran
Occupation(s)Singer, musician & composer[1][2]
Instrument(s)Tar, setar, tanbour, oud, daf, robab[2]

Davood Azad (born 6 October 1963) is an Iranian singer, multi-instrumental musician and composer[1][2] who sings both Iranian classical music and Azeri folk music.[3] He is the first Iranian lecturer invited to Oxford University to lecture about Iranian music and its forms.[2][4]

Davood Azad was born in Urmia, Azerbaijan. He is an ethnic Iranian Azerbaijani multi-instrumentalist and vocalist in Iranian classical music, Azerbaijani folk music, Ancient Persian music, and Persian Sufi music.

In his work "The Divan of Rumi & Bach" Azad joins Iranian Traditional music with Bach's famous melodies.[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 جهت برگزاری کنسرت خیریه برای زندانیان دستگرد،«داود آزاد» به زندان می‌رود!، موسیقی ایرانیان
  2. 1 2 3 4 "biography of David azad". Archived from the original on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  3. "A master of Iran's mystical music". 2 November 2004.
  4. داوود آزاد در همدان به روی صحنه می‌رود Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine، هنر آنلاین
  5. Davood Azad image persiangig.com


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