Artist's albums
Ahe Madar
2023 · single
چرا نمیرقصی (جشن تولد شانزده سالگی گوگوش)
2023 · single
Match Made in Mecca
2023 · single
If You Don’t Exist (Hirosan Remix)
2022 · single
Shahre Sokoot
2021 · single
Bebakhsh
2021 · single
Arezome
2021 · single
Sarzamine Madari
2020 · single
Bargashte Mozghan
2020 · single
Nameh
2020 · single
Mojeze Eshgh
2019 · single
Khatereha
2018 · single
Yaadvaareh
2018 · single
Be To Hedyeh Mikonam
2018 · single
Hamin Basseh
2018 · single
Pishmarg
2017 · single
Aziztarin
2017 · single
Boghze Darya
2016 · single
Ki Behtar Az To
2016 · single
Mondegar
2015 · single
Asheghooneh
2015 · single
Geryeh Nakon
2015 · single
Eshgh
2014 · single
Voice of Persia (The Battle)
2013 · album
Toofan
2013 · single
Greatest Hits 2013 (Persian music)
2013 · album
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Biography
Aref Arefkia ( عارف عارفکیا), known as Aref (Persian: عارف; also Romanized as Āref, born August 10, 1940) is an Iranian pop music singer and former actor. He is known as "The king of hearts" and "The legend of pop" in Iran. He graduated from Tehran Industrial School of Art in 1958. Before starting his career as a singer, Aref worked as a teacher in Qazvin industrial school of art for two years, but the truth is that he has been singing since he was 12 years old. In the 1960s, Aref introduced a new wave of romantic styles to the large spectrum of romantic Persian music. He first lived in London, England, for three years, then moved to Los Angeles, United States. Song Style: In the past, Aref's work was known among music pursuers as "Aref style.". The process of shaping this style was as follows: In the mid-1940s, songs were performed as ballads that had Arabic themes and were mostly needles and gloomy. The course was attended by singers Qasim Jebeli, Manouchehr Shafiee, Alfred Lazarian and Houshang Shokati. Some poets and translators translated the lyrics of the European song "Wow to Wow". Hamid Ghanbari and Jamshid Sheibani were among the first to perform the translated lyrics with the same original song. This style was pop, but it was not Iranian. In the early 1950s, love songs were performed with Western orchestration and Persian theology. This style of songs was presented to the public by Mohammad Noori, Vigen and Manouchehr Sakhaei.