Maryam Akhondy

Iranian women and Persian music
Maryam Akhondy (born 1957) is a classical trained singer from Tehran, Iran. She was student of Ostad Esmail Mehrtasch and Ostad Nassrollah Nassehpour, two masters of classical Iranian music. Because of the difficult situation for artists, especially female artists, in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, she moved to Europe and, since 1986, has lived in Cologne, Germany.
After 1986, Maryam Akhondy started working with other Iranian musicians in exile. With Nawa and Tschakawak,... meer