Yesterday I saw an anonymous comment from someone calling himself “Faramarz Aslani”. My first thought was that it HAS to be a fake name. If you read the comments you know what I mean: People pick the oddest names for their anonymous comments. Besides why would a huge pop star leave a comment here?
Although I must say the real Faramarz Aslani is no stranger on this site. His with a living legend.
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The embarrassing thing is that I discovered Aslani more than 20 years after he became a huge star in Iran. Seemed like everybody knew him before I did. I came to the U.S. for high school in the summer of 1976 and went back in 1980, after the revolution. In those 4 years, a lot happened in the pop-culture scene which I completely missed… like Aslani, or Fereydoun Foroughi, or even “Daie Jan Napoleon”…
Aslani’s songs are timeless. Three decades later I hear people singing it from the top of their lungs at virtually every party I go to when someone starts playing the guitar.
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Oh and I know who DarvishJo is! Well, indirectly through a friend. Let me just say he knows a lot more about Iran and the Persian language (and music apparently) than most of us Iranians :o)
