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Hoda Mohajerani (Persian: هدا مهاجرانی) is an Iranian-born, British singer-songwriter and business developer. She was born in Tehran and fled iran with her family to Paris in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. Her family later moved to London in the mid-1980s. Mohajerani is currently the CEO of Chakra Chai, Inc.

Born in Tehran and raised in London, Mohajerani is a poet, musician, artist singer-songwriter and guitarist and much more. She grew up in a music culture and she is as diverse as she has been described; composing somewhere between Rumi and the Ramones. Ahe started writing music as a teenager. Her early influence were Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Cat Stevens.

She has been described as authentic and warm as well as intensely focused and driven, precise. She frees up in a l family of preachers and musicians and she has said that she was influenced by Islam but was much more drawn to Sufism, a more diverse type of worship that teaches the focus of looking inwards.The practice of Sufi focuses on the renunciation of worldly things, purification of the mind and soul and the mystical contemplation of God's nature.