Benyamin Bahadori

Benyamin Bahadori is an Iranian Pop singer, composer and songwriter from Tehran, Iran. His first album 85 released in 2006, was a massive commercial success within Iran and with the Iranian diaspora abroad. He is one of the most popular pop singers in Iran. Benyamin has released four studio albums and numerous singles so far. He also sang sound tracks for the Movies Gorgo Mish and A Few Cubic Meters of Love . In 2007, a BBC documentary called Rageh Inside Iran described him as a Big Star of Iran who had sold twenty million copies of his album at the beginning of his career. Although basically a pop singer, Benyamin often includes elements of hip hop and rap into his music and some of the songs in his latest album 94 have English lyrics. Benyamin is also known as Aghae Eshgh or Mr. Love among his fans because his songs are mostly centered on romantic themes.

Benyamin was born into a very religious and traditional Muslim family of Jewish descent and grew up in a small neighborhood in the south of Tehran. He became interested in music since he was very young.

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