In 1981, he began collaborating with the Kurdish singer Shahram Nazeri, and performed throughout Europe and North America.

He is an expert on the tanbur instrument, which is considered sacred in Kurdish Yarsani[1] and sufi music.

On 30 September 2006, he gave a special program as part of Voices of Kurdistan in San Francisco World Music Festival, he has been appointed as one of fifty of the best musicians around the globe by a British music magazine.

Moradi has written a book about playing Kurdish tabur, which includes most well-known maqams of tanbur.

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