Concert of Shahram and Hafez Nazeri at Chehelsotun Palace

He often works with his son Hafez Nazeri, a composer. Born in a Kurdish family, he was the first vocalist to set Rumi’s poetry to Persian music thirty-five years ago, thus establishing a tradition of Sufi music within both Persian classical music and Kurdish music and his music was instrumental in introducing Western musical audiences to both Sufism and to the poetry of Rumi.