Simin Ghanem | pt

Simin Ghanem (Persian: سیمین غانم‌) (born 1944, Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian classical and pop singer. Simin started singing when she was at 9. she was the best singer in the "Iran's school competition" at 1962. After 7 years she started her professional singing with TV program that called : Moje Khorooshan" (1969). She leaned Iranian Traditional music with Morteza Hannaneh & Ali Tajvidi, both real professional master of music of Iran. Her first Song in this style was : Gollake Cheshat (قلک چشات) that for some many year was more popular song between Iranian. Her Most famous song is...

Russell Simins used to be the drummer of the "Jon Spencer Blues Explosion", before he started working on his solo projects. He is partly known for one of his songs being used in a videogame called "Jet Set Radio Future", titled "I'm Not a Model". .

Virtually unknown outside his native Romania, with a perfectly pencil-thin mustache and a voice that flutters in mid-air, Siminică packed cafes and clubs in Bucharest in the 1960s. The tables filled with guests almost as quickly as the glasses with tuica or wine and the patron's till with Lei. Dona Dumitru Siminica sang songs which offered consolation to the lonely, tended the wounds of the lovesick, and prepared those newly-infatuated for the end of their love. Siminica had a disturbing, androgynous falsetto voice and a large number of female fans who hung on to every word uttered by the man...

Rewind << As any good mix tells a story, Simina Grigoriu does more than just impress techno music through her DJ sets, she herself is a mixture of diverse cultural and musical influences. Born in Romania, raised in Toronto and since then arriving to Berlin, she describes a synthesis of the violin and keyboard lessons she had in her childhood, the discovery of her parent's vinyl treasures and the hip-hop freestyling in her student days. Paired with her love of techno, which she discovered somewhat later in the clubs in Toronto, as well as the musical influences of Jeff Mills,...

With her voice and songs Simin Tander tells stories, even without words, trusting her music to do the speaking - her voice as a universal instrument. Improvisation is important to her. Also impulsiveness and spontaneity. „Music is an almost sacred space in which I can be Me“, she says. Jazz-icon Sheila Jordan is so impressed by Simin´s voice that she has taken her into training. „It was a very special encounter“, says Jordan. „I´m deeply stirred by Simin´s unique talent“. After a scholarship and various workshops in New York, Sheila Jordan remains close to Simin Tander as her mentor. Through...