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Place of Birth: Babol, Mazandaran Province, Iran
About Afshin (singer)
- Afshin Jafari (Persian: ????? ??????) known by the mononym Afshin (Persian: ??????; born in Babol, Iran on 6 May 1978) is an Iranian singer based in Germany and well known as an Iranian diaspora international pop star. Afshin moved with his family when he was seven.
- He started learning guitar at age 10 and started writing music and lyrics early on.
- In 1995, his family immigrated to Germany when he was 17 where they resided in Mannheim.
- Singing in Persian diaspora events and venues, at 21 he signed a contract with ParsVideo specializing in Iranian music.
- Afshin incorporated elements of Iranian music and youth-oriented western pop, hip hop and rap music in his songs and launched a number of albums and music videos that became popular in Germany and the Iranian diaspora.
- He is supported by Taraneh Records and Avang Music.
- His brother Amir Ali, a rapper, has contributed to some of his more recent releases.In addition to his shows in Germany accompanied with his German-based band of musicians, Afshin has also toured in more than 300 occasions in venues in Austria, Belgium, Canada, USA, UK and Scandinavian countries.
- His band includes musicians Daniel Schild, Kostas Karagiosidies, Simon Wegerle, Amir DadashPoor, Amirali Armakan, Jens Steffan, Payman Barazandeh, and Nico Schliemann.
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