Mehrdad Asemani

The first collaboration was the song QQ Bang Bang with a poem by Zoya Zakarian and arranged by Manouchehr Cheshmazar, which was about 13 minutes long. This collaboration continued in the album Last News in 2003. Mehrdad Asemani was the composer of all the songs in this album (except Pir Mashrekh). The songs of this album were written by Shahyar Ghanbari and Zoya Zakarian with arrangements by Mehrdad Asemani, Andy J, and Manouchehr Cheshmazar, who performed the song Last News in two voices in this album. Googoosh appeared as a guest singer in Mehrdad's snapshot album and performed three songs with Mehrdad in two voices. Afterward, Mehrdad appeared in the next album of Googoosh, Mehrdad's Manifest, as a composer and arranger with songs by Shahyar Ghanbari. He also performed the song of birth certificate in two voices with Googoosh; in 2008, after three years of silence, they jointly released the album Shab Speid, which received a lot of attention.

A year and a half later, Asemani achieved fame with the release of the album "Night Skin" and the famous song "Chador" (Chador Nendaz Saret) with lyrics by Masoud Amini and a song by Hassan Shamaeizadeh. The songs performed in his first albums were composed by Mohammad Saleh Ala and Masoud Amini. After these two albums, and after performing a concert in Los Angeles, Mehrdad Asemani started holding concerts in different cities of America and Europe, starting in 1999. He married Ghazaleh in 2000 and had two sons, Mehrzad and Mahan. They separated in 2010. In 2019, Asemani married Shiva Rahimi and had a son named Milan.

This collaboration was released in the form of an album called Gol Gandam jointly with the presence of Sattar and Mahasti. All the songs of this album were written by Mehrdad and lyrics by Alireza Meibodi, Homayoun Hoshiar Nejad, and Masoud Amini, arranged by Manouchehr Cheshmazar, Schubert. Avakian and Saeed Ghorbani, which was published in 1998, in which Mahasti and Sattar performed a two-part song called Booye Noon, Booye Khak, Booye Gandom.

When he realized that he could not pursue his singing career freely in Iran, he decided to leave Iran in 1992 for Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles, Asemani released his first album, "Voice of Sun", which became an instant hit, becoming famous in the Persian community all over the world. With his second album called "Pooste Shab", he became a household name in the Persian community.

Mehrdad Akhavan (Persian: مهرداد اخوان), better known by his stage name Mehrdad Asemani (Persian: مهرداد آسمانی, born July 16, 1967, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian singer, composer and musician. He lives in Los Angeles.