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Legendary singer Farhad_Mehrad

Thursday, 22. May 2008, 21:14:15

:star: Farhad was born on January 20, 1943. His father was Reza Mehrad, an Iranian diplomat who worked in the Arabic countries for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Being the youngest child, he always behaved differently from his family members and everyone assumed he was trying to act like an adult.

:star: When Farhad was three years of age, his love for music was noticed when he stayed outside his brother's room, listening to his violin lessons. His family bought Farhad a cello and he started taking lessons. After 3 lessons, his cello broke and as Farhad describes "the instrument broke into pieces so did my soul". That was the end of the cello for Farhad and his love and passion for music ended up to be only listening to his brother playing the violin.

:star: In 1993, after 15 years of silence, Farhad was granted permission to release his first album Khab Dar Bidari (Sleep while awake) and it went straight to the top of the charts just after its release.

:star: After this album Farhad lost hope in the Iranian government's grant of permission system and he released his next album Barf (Snow) in the United States in 1999. Barf was released in Iran a year later.

"Last Album"

:star: After Barf, Farhad decided to record an album with songs from different countries and in different languages. He decided to call the album "Amin" (Amen) he started recording, but he died before he could finish the album.
Here is one fom the song "The Beatles : Yesterday" :


:star: In 1969 Farhad sang Marde Tanha (A Lonely Man) for the movie Reza Motori (Reza, the Biker) starring : :the legendary Actor`s : "Behrouz Vossoughi"& legendary Actress /singer Googoosh : here is a link to some clips of the fim:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/iranbehrouz-vossoughi/548222821

:star: The song was composed by Esfandyar Monfaredzadeh and the lyrics were written by Shahyar Ghanbari. After the release of the movie, the song was released on gramophone discs and Farhad became a legendary star.
here is the song :


:star: In September 2000, Farhad's illness became serious and on August 31, 2002, after 2 years of treatment in Iran and France, he died of Hepatitis C in Paris, France.

:star: His funeral was attended by many huge Iranian stars like Dariush, Ebi and many more who all made statements and like all Iranians around the world mourned the death of this legend.

He is buried in the Thiais cemetery just outside Paris, France.
:cry: :cry: awww :heart: rip
:star: :

Farhad Mehrad's Official Website : http://www.farhadmehrad.org/
Farhad`s songs : http://www.iranian.com/Music/Farhad/index.html
for more songs look in the wikipedia`s "References&External links" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhad_Mehrad :wink:

"Links to cool places" Multi tagged !!

Comments

ellinidata 22. May 2008, 21:22

what a great and informative post this is!!
I never knew Farhad Mehrad, I am very glad you did bring all this information to my attention!
Thank you Amir!
:heart:

night wolf 22. May 2008, 21:25

:happy: No problemo :D :heart:

daxonmacs 22. May 2008, 21:51

"Amin" sounds like he knew what was coming.
The man has a voice with a nice timbre and knows how to sing.
Picture makes me think of Omar Shariff having an extremely good day :up:

Nerak 22. May 2008, 21:52

What a shame. rip Thanks for the info!

MizzMartinez 22. May 2008, 22:02

Wow! Thanks Amir for sharing this hidden treasure with us! :heart:

night wolf 22. May 2008, 22:04

:happy: No problemo: DaX/ Karen/ Kerstin :smile:

MizzMartinez 22. May 2008, 22:18

Btw...I got a notification for this post! :headbang:

ellinidata 22. May 2008, 22:45

I did too! I got one finally!

hi, Titi,
how are you pretty face??




@
Hi Dax ,
leave Omar Sharif alone!!
Nobody like Doctor Zhivango .
Our friend Scott I_Art Man plays the "Lara's Theme".How cool is that!

daxonmacs 22. May 2008, 22:47

Problem with Omar is that he himself didn't like to be left alone :lol:

ellinidata 22. May 2008, 22:52

he was a peoples' person :lol:

MizzMartinez 22. May 2008, 22:52

Pretty face? :lol: I'm fine! How are you Angeliki? Working?

ellinidata 22. May 2008, 23:22

yes, still doing some paper work and adding a comment at Opera every 10 minutes :lol:

yes your face is beautiful!
ask the artist, Amir will tell you more! :smile:

MizzMartinez 22. May 2008, 23:23

:lol: I should be writing an essay, but instead I'm online! :faint: I'm addicted! What can I do? p:

My face is beautiful? I have never heard such madness! :lol:

CultureSurfer 23. May 2008, 12:16

Nice to see you again. It's been too long. :love:

night wolf 23. May 2008, 18:13

Kerstin nice to know you had a notification :headbang:

Angeliki Yup her face is one of a kind :wink:

Naomi :smile: I was busy but now Back on track :up: :yes:

angel292005 24. May 2008, 18:00

Sounds like he was a great artist. :cool:

daxonmacs 24. May 2008, 18:03

Nice banner wolf :up:

night wolf 24. May 2008, 18:07

Sarah :D A legend :D

DaX ThanX Man i well keep it for some time :D

CultureSurfer 24. May 2008, 20:40

Very interesting banner. Not quite as scary as the wolf with the spots of blood. :eyes:

night wolf 26. May 2008, 19:32

:D That was the idea Naomi P: to make it less scary :lol: :up:

CultureSurfer 26. May 2008, 22:44

Good. Now I'll sleep better. p:

blondpony 1. June 2008, 21:21

Very interesting post. I didn't know him till now :yes:

Btw, http://my.opera.com/blondpony/blog/ Another tagging game :whistle:

night wolf 2. June 2008, 11:48

Oww Shoot :insane: O.K i well do it in a few day`s to come P:

blondpony 2. June 2008, 14:29

No problem, I know it can be pretty annoying P:

night wolf 3. June 2008, 20:43

Who !!?? you !?? No pretty girl ,:wink: not at all :yes: Nice to see ya on my page again Veronica :heart:

blondpony 3. June 2008, 20:48

I mean playing the tagging game P:

thanks anyway, that's really kind :smile:

night wolf 3. June 2008, 20:56

I got what you meant :wink:

Kind..No It`s the truth :D

p:

blondpony 3. June 2008, 20:57

:yes:

crimo1274 3. June 2008, 21:01

wow what a story man
tnx for sharing this story in his memory

night wolf 3. June 2008, 21:07

Veronica * :headbang:

Crimo :wink: No problemo man :yes: ....:eyes: :yes: cool smilies :wink:

crimo1274 3. June 2008, 21:20

if you want i can tell you how

night wolf 3. June 2008, 22:43

sure :yes:

crimo1274 3. June 2008, 22:54

aaaaa haaaaaaaa you know how , anymore you'll find the explaining here
http://my.opera.com/crimo1274/blog/2008/06/03/how-to-add-other-smilys-in-your-comment

night wolf 3. June 2008, 22:56

Cool ThanX Man :D :yes:

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