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Mohsen Namjoo

Singer & Songwriter

Mohsen Namjoo, (Persian: محسن نامجو‎‎), is an Iranian singer-songwriter. His style of music is influenced by blues and rock as well as Iranian folk music. The lyrics of his songs are also a combination of Persian classical poems, his own lyrics, and contemporary poems; Namjoo uses the words freely, infusing them with irony and sarcasm to carry the music and to create a free style form of singing. An Iranian correspondent for the The New York Times in Iran wrote that "some call him a sort of Bob Dylan of Iran".

Konserthuset

The Stockholm Concert Hall is the main hall for orchestral music in Stockholm, Sweden. With a design by Ivar Tengbom chosen in competition, inaugurated in 1926, the Hall is home to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

2017-05-05
Doors:
Show Time: 19:30
Konserthuset, Hötorget 8, Stockholm, 103 87

Visionary Artist Returns to Stockholm Concert Hall!

The New York Times called Mohsen Namjoo “Iran’s Bob Dylan”. His lyrics often contain a special bite through satirical elements. A musical lone wolf who has voiced the thoughts of many Iranians, he recently released a new album entitled Personal Cipher (sefre shakhsi).

Namjoo is active as a vocalist, composer, music scholar and setar player (a traditional Persian lute). His music and lyrics are highly emotional, and his style features a combination of classical Persian poetry – with inspiration from Hafez, Rumi and Saadi, for example – and Western influences from rock, blues and jazz.

Among other thing, the lyrics reflect the frustration and resignation felt by many young Iranians in our time. In 2009, Namjoo was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison by an Islamic court for “ridiculing” a particular surah in the Koran (Ash-Shams). He now lives in the US in New York and is also active as a music professor at Stanford University.

The concert is part of Riksteatern’s theme initiative Voices of Change‚ which features artists from all over the world who work for positive change through their art – voices that cannot make themselves heard in their home countries without risking imprisonment.

Mohsen Namjoo has guest-performed at Stockholm Concert Hall on two earlier occasions: in October 2013 and February 2015.

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