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Maya Ebrahimi Zanjani, born in Mashad, Iran in 1975, was fortunate to come from a musical family. She is the nephew of Mansour Nariman, a musician famous for his playing of the oud. Under the guidance of her grandfather and father, she was introduced to music from childhood and began singing popular Iranian songs at the age of two. When she was nine, her grandfather taught her to recite the Quran. Maya’s grandfather was a professional singer and musician, who played a range of traditional instruments including the tar, setar and ney. Maya’s first formal singing teacher was her father, who was highly experienced in traditional Iranian music. She continued her singing training with a teacher known as Mr Shakery, who is highly regarded in Iranian Dastgah and Radif, in the Khorasan province. A few years later, she had the opportunity to take singing lessons from master musician Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and his daughter Mozhgan Shajarian. After completing solfege courses at Jahad Daneshgahi, she was offered a place singing alto in this university’s choral group. In 2013, Maya undertook a singing course at the University of Adelaide. The following year, she performed with Keivan Saket at a concert in Sydney. In 2015, she took part in performances and events with Arash Kamvar and the Soroushan band in Tehran. Over the years, Maya has also performed in India, Melbourne and Adelaide. Maya has created fusion (East-West music) with The Wisp band, performing and recording with this Adelaide group. At present, she lives in Melbourne and works as a lecturer at Monash University. In her free time, she enjoys taking part in Iranian community music events and teaching traditional Iranian singing. With her brother, she has composed various original pieces of music with lyrics based on poems by her husband (Dr Benyamin Mansoori). These songs will be released later this year.