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Kaveh Yaghmaei (born December 12, 1968) .He is an award-winning Iranian-Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, arranger, pianist, keyboardist, flutist.

Career
He was born in Tehran, Iran, in a well-known family of musicians. His father, Kourosh Yaghmaei, is a legendary musician who pioneered electric guitar and rock music in Iran in the 1960s.

In 1976, at the age of eight, Kaveh started learning piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music with Ms. Novin Afrouz. Although he had been making excellent progress in his classical piano studies, his first instrument studies were shut down in 1979 due to the Iranian Revolution.

After two years, the Tehran Conservatory of Music reopened, and in 1988 Kaveh received a music diploma with flute as his main instrument. Meanwhile, he was also learning guitar, songwriting, arranging, and studio recording techniques from his father and uncles Kamran Yaghmaei and Kambiz Yaghmaei.

Awards

 * In 2016,Kaveh released his third solo album, Manshour, which became the bestselling pop-rock album of the year in Iran and received the following awards:


 * 2017 Fajr International Music Festival Awards for Best Pop Album of the Year.


 * 2017 Musicema Awards [Awards|Musicema Awards] for Best Pop-Rock Album of the Year (based on the opinions of music experts and notable professional musicians)


 * 2017 Barbad Awards for Best Pop-Rock Album of the year (based on the opinions of music experts and notable professional musicians)


 * 2017 Chelcheragh People’s Choice Award Chelcheragh Awardsfor Best Lyrics


 * Kaveh wrote and arranged Houman Ghafoori’s album "Suddenly Gone" the same year.He received the Fajr music festival Awards for Best Pop Songwriter of the Year award at the 33rd Fajr Music Festival Awards.

influences:
Baroque, classic and romantic music

Rock bands such as Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Jeff Beck, AC/DC, Camel, Dire Straits, Elton John, Alan Parson, Eric Clapton , Rush , Supermax and Alanis Morissette.

Pop artists such as Michael Jackson

History

 * In 1989, he recorded his first single with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra members at Saba Studio.
 * In 1990, he began recording albums with his father, including Diar, Gorg haye Ghorosneh, Sib e Noghrei, Mah o Palang, Kaboos, Arayesh e Khorshid, Tofang e Dasteh Noghreh and Malek Jamshid. Sib e Noghrei was the first pop music album to be recorded and successfully released in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
 * In 1992, Kaveh performed concerts with Kourosh Yaghmaei in stockholm,Gothenburg,Karlstad,Malmö,Oslo.
 * since 1993 he taught music production and helped develop many notable musicians, including his students Ario Habibi and Sirvan Khosravi.
 * In 1994, he began his Bachelor of Music studies at the Azad University of Tehran, specializing in classical guitar with his teacher Behdad Moghadasi.
 * In 1994, Kaveh formed a band with Babak Amini called Babak & Kaveh. They were the first musicians following the revolution to hold an official concert in the Rock music and Flamenco music styles. This was a landmark occasion, as current western-style concerts had previously been banned in Iran from 1979 until that day.
 * In 1997, he established his band, Kaveh Band, which has since performed 102+ concerts mainly in Iran and Canada.
 * In 1998, he started arranging and producing for several artists and released over 50 albums and singles.
 * In 1999, he married Niloofar Farzandshad, a classical pianist and musician who graduated from the Tehran Conservatory of Music and Trinity College of London. They began their professional music collaboration at that time as well.
 * in 1999 Babak & Kaveh’s band won the Best Band of the Year award at the 1st Fajr Pop Music Festival Awards.
 * In 2000, for the first time in Iran, Kaveh established an electric guitar field at the University of Applied Science and Technology that focused on Rock music and digital recording science.
 * In 2001, Kaveh and Niloofar immigrated to Canada and became Canadian citizens.
 * In 2003, Kaveh released his first solo album Matarsak (ScareCrow), which became Iran’s best-selling pop album of the year.
 * In 2003 he also released his concert’s official DVD, marking the first time any performer in Iran professionally recorded a multi track concert with high-quality audio and video for a DVD.
 * In 2005, he released his second album, Sokoot e Sard (Cold Silence), in the United States with Taraneh Records. Three songs from this album entered the PMC TV Top Twenty chart .“Avalin Harf”, became the #1 song in Top 20 PMC tv chart.
 * In 2008, he performed in Vancouver with his Canadian band members. Since then, he has worked with several well-known international musicians and producers, including Daniel Adair (from Nickelback and 3 Doors Down), Brian Poulsen, David Edward Valentine Spidel, Frank Baker, Shane Gaalaas, Andranic Madadian, and Ben Kaplan of Kaplan Krunch Studios.
 * In 2018, for the first time in 40 years, Kaveh received special permission from the Iranian government to perform with his Canadian and American band members in Iran. This event was seen as a significant cultural milestone.
 * In July 2021, he released his new album “Adamhaye Shabzadeh“.

Equipment

 * Guitars Yaghmaei's preferred guitar is a Fender Stratocasters, but he is also known for playing Gibson Les Paul,Taylor,Yamaha.
 * Amplifiers The amplifiers he uses include Fender, Hiwatt and Marshall.
 * Effects The multi effects that he uses are Boss GT6,Helix,RP6 digitech,ARP Avatar.
 * KeyboardsKaveh and Niloofar uses keyboards such as Yamaha PSR90, Hammond,Roland D-70,ARP omni,Yamaha Motif 8,Roland RD 2000,Roland JD-XA, Nord C2D,Arturia MatrixBrute 4 Octave Analog Super-Synthesizer,Roland SH201.

Discography

 * Matarsak 2003
 * Sokoote Sard 2007
 * Manshour 2016
 * Adamaye Shabzadeh 2021

Singles

 * “Bahar nazdikeh”
 * “Safar”
 * “Kouleh”
 * “Dejavu”
 * “jaye man nisti”

Categories: Iranian singer | Musician |Rock Music