By playing whirling music for restless globetrotters of most various cultures, his style changed and melted the traditional songs into a new form, creating a sphere refreshing the body and soul. Nature and people are wonderful - it changed my life.“ says Bahramji. After Bahram had lived 25 years in Iran, where he also went to school ending with a highschool diploma, he left the country in 1977, studied in and travelled to India and later to Europe. A good friend taught him the first steps on this traditional instrument and already soon he became such a virtuoso, that he already performed in public. Bahrams musical career began at the age of 15 when his father, who plays the violin himself, gave him a Santoor. As a child he heard the old Sufi melodies, which are still inspiration for him today. He therefore had contact to music at early age. Bahram grew up in a large family, in which there were many good musicians and singers. Kermanshah is a small city in a beautifully location: surrounded by mountains, rivers and trees, it was therefore also called „the city of the kings“. BAHRAMJI aka Bahram Pourmand was born 1952 in the Persian city Kermanshah, in the Kurdish part Iran.
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