Mohammad Esfahani محمد اصفهانی | |
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| Birth name | Mohammad Mahdi Vaezi Esfahani |
| Born | 5 July 1966 Tehran, Iran |
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| Website | mohammadesfahani |
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| Years active | 1994–present |
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Mohammad Mahdi Vaezi Esfahani (Persian: محمدمهدی واعظی اصفهانی; born 5 July 1966), better known as Mohammad Esfahani, is an Iranian Persian pop and traditional singer. He graduated from The Medical Sciences University of Iran in 1997, while learning Iranian music from the famous Iranian traditional singer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and his best student Ali Jahandar.[1]
He was born in Tehran. His father, Mohammad Ali Vaezi, was a physician who was also the governor of Esfahan shortly after the revolution. He was of Esfahani descent, and his mother was born in Tehran. Mohammad Mehdi completed his primary and secondary education at the Alavi School and won a place in the juvenile category in the Quran competitions before the revolution. He was scheduled to be sent to Kuwait to win a position in the Quran competition, which was canceled due to his mother's opposition. From an early age, he learned to recite the Qur'an in three narrations from the masters of the time and has benefited from various methods of this art, especially the Mustafa Ismail method. Mohammad Mehdi entered Medical School of Iran University of Medical Sciences and graduated in 1997. He is married and has three children.[2]
Esfahani has released 14 albums to date. In his albums, he has worked with great music masters such as Homayoun Khoram, Babak Bayat, Fereydoun Shahbazian[3] The wordless is the name of another work of Mohammad Esfahani; The wordless was released in a completely new atmosphere, the wordless is accompanied by a clip about Emam Reza, which has been released on this album. The album distribution company has announced that 200,000 copies of this work have been sold in the first 2 weeks of its release.
With the election of the new leader of the Iran's National Orchestra, Mohammad Esfahani was introduced as the singer of the National Orchestra.[4]
