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Ali Sorena
Ali Khodami is known professionally as " Ali Sorena" was born in April 1990 in Garmsar. He is an Iranian rapper, songwriter, and underground music producer. Ali Sorena started his activity in the field of rap and hip hop music in 2008. At the beginning of his career, Sorena worked with Benjamin and Farzan Vahshat. The songs "You will not be forgiven" with Benjamin, "Crime" with Benjamin and Farzan Vahesht, "Now is not the time to sleep" and and "Vatan" which he published individually, are among his first works published in late 2011. Ali Sorena wrote and sang protest texts from the beginning of his career. The theme of his songs was against the situation of the people, poverty, and society's problems.

After several years of activity and the release of several singles, Sorena released her first official album called "The Lonely Man" on February 10, 2012. This album consisted of 10 songs, and Sorena composed, arranged and mastered this collection. This musical work became one of the most famous Persian rap albums and attracted many underground music listeners.

In this album, Sorena has narrated the life of the lower classes and strata. He sang for the lives of people who are unable and deprived of ordinary life and deprived of the minimum of welfare and livelihood. "The Lonely Man" was published only two years after the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. The piece "Khake Sorkh (Red Soil)," which was one of the songs on this album, had a relatively direct reference to the political and social events and developments of that period. The song was an expression of the disgust and hatred of those who went to the streets, protested, and were arrested or killed. The "Masti" piece in this collection is one of the first examples of storytelling in Persian rap. In this album, Sorena has a direct reference to the "Iran corruptions" and "inefficiencies" of the Iranian government and the crises that have always afflicted the lower classes. He narrates his experiences in life by singing rap. Sorena's second album titled "Avar" was released on February 10, 2014 (the second anniversary of the release of the album "Lonely Man"). This album contained eight songs, and "Atour," "Mezrab," and "Ali Sorena" composed the composition of this collection, and its mix and master was done by Ehsan Zia (Atour). Like his first album, this collection had a social-protest nature only and was released with more radical and rebellious lyrics, such as "I'm Not Afraid" and "Majnoon Shahr", which was a continuation of the atmosphere of his first album. The songs "Majnoon Shahr", "Tell your children" and "Atal Matal" from this album were pieces that had a social-protest atmosphere and were able to attract the attention of many audiences. "Negar" was released as the third Sorena's Album on March 17, 2016, by Divar Records. The composers of this collection were Ehsan Zia (Atour) and Mezrab, and Daria Fedorova designed the cover of this collection. This album contains 13 songs, and in an abstract atmosphere, in a long story, it tells the story of a girl named Negar who was created by the poet.

In this collection, the content of the songs changed from previous works and turned from personal space to mythological and figurative poetry to abstract and surreal poetry. The content of Negar, especially in the piece "Negar", was written with metaphors and similes of women and emotional relationships with women. This collection has characters such as Negar, wind, water, fire, hair, scissors, turbines, and death that dialogue with each other along the way of the collection. After this album, Sorena fans called him "Ferdowsi Rap".

Ali Sorena's fourth studio album was released on November 19, 2017. The collection, called "Kavir", contained seven songs and was composed and arranged by Saeed Dehghan. Unlike Negar, the lyrics of this album are far from the abstract space and more straightforward, more objective and personal, and closer to the singer's character and life. In his texts' content and atmosphere, which have found a more poetic and abstract direction, he remains faithful to his class origins and the voice of the inferior.