Ali Pahlavan (born 1 May 1975) is an Iranian musician, singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

, lyricist

Lyricist

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 and composer

Composer

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. He was a founding member of the pop

Pop music

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 band Arian Band

Arian Band

Arian is the first pop band consisting of both male and female singers and players in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Pahlavan and Salehi are the band's lead vocalists, and the songwriters are Pahlavan, Salehi, Amirkhas, Khahani and Farnejad. Their second, third and forth albums were the...

 , serving as guitarist

Guitarist

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 and co-lead vocalist. The band subsequently achieved nationwide success in the 2000s with the album

Album

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s Sunflower

Sunflower

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, And but love , Till eternity and Without you, with you . Their second album has the record of best selling pop album in the history of pop music in Iran.

Personal life

Ali Pahlavan was born on 1 May 1975, thirteen years before his younger brother, in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

, Iran. Although Pahlavan's primary instrument was the Daf , a traditional musical instrument from Iran, he decided to continue his musical life with the Guitar. He started learning guitar from Vafa Faraji when he was 17. He studied Industrial Engineering in university and after collecting his bachelor, he went to do his military service. During his service, he met Payam Salehi, the other co-lead vocalist of Arian. They decided to create a band and have a concert together. This decision resulted a concert in Qeshm island one year later on 1998. This concert was the biggest leap for the group, where they met a producer who asked them to do an album, and things got bigger than they expected.

Pahlavan works as an Industrial engineer at South pars gas company. He also teaches Project Management at Sharif university of technology

Sharif University of Technology

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Arian Band (1998–present)

Having a contract with a producer, Pahlavan and other members of Arian started to work on their first album, Sunflower. The album was released in 2000 and it was so successful that they decided to continue this way and start working on another album, which was released in 2001 named And but love and was the best-seller album of the year. Till eternity was the name of their third album which was released in 2004 and was also the best seller album of the year. Being on top of the charts in Iran, Arian decided to distribute its name over the boarders and hold concerts world wide. They traveled to Canada, Europe, USA and some Asian countries and had many successful concerts world wide. At one point the band sold more than 54,000 tickets to one of their concerts in less than six hours. Touring Europe, they met Chris De Burgh

Chris de Burgh

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 and produced a Persian-English version of his song The Words I Love You. They released their fourth album, Without you, With you in the year 2008 which included the song with Chris De Burgh. Pahlavan became more responsible when Ninef Amirkhas, Arranger and Keyboard player of the group left Arian to continue his studies. Now he has the responsibility to arrange the songs as well.