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Ardalan Sarfraz (born on July 24, 1329 in Darab) is a poet and songwriter who is one of the modern Iranian songwriters, along with Shahyar Ghanbari and Iraj Jannati Atai.

Life
Ardalan Sarfraz was born in 1329 in Darab city located in Fars province. He was the eldest child in the family and his mother also had a hand in poetry. The beginning of Ardalan's poetic life was in the first year of high school in Amirkabir School and with the encouragement of a teacher named Daneshmand. In his youth, he was accepted to study psychology at Pars University and went to Tehran. At the suggestion of his mother's cousin (Hossein Sarfraz, a famous poet and journalist of that time), he started his career as a songwriter while studying to make a living with Iran Radio and Youth Orchestra. After a year, he left Iran Radio for some reasons; But Sarfaraz started writing songs professionally and with the song "Night", both he and Abi, the singer of this song, became famous. Ardalan Sarfaraz left Iran for Germany a few years after the revolution in 1362. When leaving Iran, Darabi announced to his acquaintances that I am leaving here only to make Iran proud.

During his life, he has spent time in different countries such as Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Italy, America, etc., and the effect of being in these countries and the suffering caused by sojourn is evident in many of his poems.

Political poems and songs
Ardalan Sarfraz brings all his political concerns to the fore in his poems and believes that oppression should be fought with the language of poetry and songs. Songs such as: "Gol Pone", "Rozai Roshan" and "Diger Bas ast" show the fact that many of Ardalan Sarfraz's songs have a political theme.

Artistic collaboration
He has collaborated the most with singers such as: Dariush, Moin, Ebi, Heideh, Sattar and Gogoosh. ArEf, Farhad Mehrad, Mehsti, Maziar, Leila Forohar, Siavash Qomishi, Shahrokh and Shakila are among other singers who have collaborated with Ardalan Sarfraz. Among the composers, he collaborated with Farid Zoland, Siavash Qomeishi, Varujan, Babak Afshar, Toraj Shabankhani, Mohammad Heydari, Manouchehr Cheshmazar, Hassan Shamaeizadeh and Fariborz Lachini. It should be mentioned that some time ago, two books containing a selection of his songs named "From the Roots to Always" and "Sal Safar" were printed and published. This book is important from the point of view that many songs with Ardalan's political approach are included in them. The song "Diger Bes Is" in 2019 with the voice of Mehtab Safovian (singer and painter living in Paris) is one of Ardalan Sarfraz's songs.