Aref (singer)

Aref Arefkia, known by the mononym Aref (also Romanized as Āref, born August 10, 1940) is an Iranian pop music singer and former actor.

He is known as "The king of hearts" and "The Legend of pop" in Iran.

In the mid-1940s, songs were performed as ballads with Arabic themes, mostly needles and gloomy.

The course was attended by singers Qasim Jebeli, Manouchehr Shafiee, Alfred Lazarian and Houshang Shokati.

Some poets and translators translated the lyrics of the European song "Wow to Wow".

Hamid Ghanbari and Jamshid Sheibani were among the first to perform the translated lyrics with the same original song.

This style was pop, but it was not Iranian.

In the early 1950s, love songs were performed with Western orchestration and Persian theology.

This style of song was presented to the public by Mohammad Noori, Vigen and Manouchehr Sakhaei.

When Aref started his career, Viguen was referred to as the "founder of pop music".

He created a "Aref style" by adding Iranian melodies and musical instruments to the previous style.

The concept of songs :

Love Songs : Aref had suffered many hardships in his life, so there was a "disdain" in his voice.

His loneliness also made the songs he sang more palpable to the listener, and the sense of the song conveyed well.

This was lost by performing the song "Lake of Light (= Daryache ye Noor)", and he had to use his thoughts to create it in his songs to create sense.

(Aref never used smoke or alcohol) Shahbal Shab-parish wrote in "The Pop Fader Song" about Aref: "The Sultan(=King) of Hearts was Aref, reading it was for the heart of love. Everything he read smelled of love, promise, friendship and compromise."

Political and Patriotic Songs:

With the outbreak of the revolution, Aref tried to distance himself from singing love songs and singing about the pains of the people of his community.

During his time in the country, he performed the songs of "brother (=baradar)" and "I will give you my hands (= dast hayam raa be to midaham)".

Abroad, songs such as "My Pulse for Iran (=nabze man baraye Iran mizane)", "People Always people (=mardom hamishe mardom)" , "Little Soldier (=sarbaz kochoolo)" , "Blackout (=khaamooshi)" , "Strange Days of Nazanin(= roozegare ajibist nazanin)" , "Beman Madar" , "khakeh man Irane man Koo", "Anthem of Iran (Polyphony)", "Persian Gulf(=khalije fars)" , "Beat the Fire(= bezan atash)" released.

He graduated from the Tehran Industrial School of Art in 1958.

Before starting his career as a singer, Aref worked as a teacher at Qazvin industrial school of Art for two years, but the truth is that he has been singing since he was 12 years old.

In the 1960s, Aref introduced a new wave of romantic styles to the large spectrum of romantic Persian music.

After the Islamic revolution Aref left Iran and went to London and Los Angeles.

He has one son and four daughters.

His first hit was "Daryacheye Noor", which is still popular among all Iranians.

Like the song "I Don't Believe (=delam bavar nadareh)" with a poem by Shahyar Ghanbari that was performed in the mid-1960s : [ I know, like everyone else, you'll be fed up with me, and you'll be saddened by my grief / These two white hands in my hand, I know, will eventually put my hand back / I know, but I don't believe it's enough that it's simple, it brings me bad back ]

Polyphony Songs :

1. Duet with female singers :In addition to Narmela and Pouran and Delkash, Ramesh, Googoosh, Ahdieh, Beheshteh, Shahin, Hayedeh, Pouran Zandi (wife of Jamshid Zandi ), Aref also performed duets that were mostly made for feature films.

In the 1960s and 1970s, most of the Selway choruses of Aref songs were performed by a woman named Hermineh.

New Persian Songs: In the early 1970s, great songwriters such as Shahyar Ghanbari, Ardalan Sarfaraz and Iraj Jannati-Ataei began to change the course of songs and used heavy Persian literature.

These types of poets were like unknown 2-3 equations that led the listener astray.

Aref sought to perform simple poets that would be tangible to the listener.

Aref and his family left Iran in 1979, following the Islamic Revolution.

He first lived in London, England, for three years, then moved to Los Angeles, United States.

In 2002, Aref appeared as a guest singer at the Kodak Theatre and performed the song "Sultan of Hearts (=sultane qalbha)" along with Leila Forouhar.

Duet male singers :

A number of songs: I present you (August 2018), that's Enough (June 2018), Peshmerga (February 2017), who better than you (November 2016), Love (July 2016), Bagh-e Darya (February 2016), Mondgar (December 2015), Don't Cry (January 1, 2015), Song of Nostalgia (June 2014), Love (May 19, 2014), Storm (October 1, 2013), Aramesh (2012), If you're not (with Reza Naderi- 2011), Stars, Fire (2007), Persian Gulf.

Song Style: In the past, Aref's work was known among music pursuers as "Aref style.".

The process of shaping this style was as follows: