The Armenian musician Hamlet Minassian was born in Tabriz
(North-Western Iran) in 1940. After graduating from the music school of
his native city, he attended advanced courses at the Teheran
Conservatoire followed by musical research work in Europe and the United
States. His career began with composing chanson type songs.
He then
moved into the film industry where he rapidly built up a reputation as
the composer of a number of popular themes. Hamlet Minassian has also
produced original vocal and orchestral arrangements of Armenian folk
tunes and has composed a number of romances and the ballet.
Awinsome and dizzying spin on disco pop, recorded in westernized Iran
during the last moments before the 1979 revolution. All but criminalized
in the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini's theocratic repression, Hamlet
Minassian's solo masterpiece is a testament to the Middle East's
forgotten dance music culture.
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