[4] He began his solo career in 1973 with his first single "Gol-e Yakh" ("Ice Flower"), a track selling more than 5 million copies in the domestic market.

In 2011, his first compilation album, Back from the Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran: 1973–1979, was released by Now-Again Records to international recognition.

[6] Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Yaghmaei's work was banned from the country's airways, markets and homes, and his name from the press.

Kourosh Yaghmaei was born on 3 December 1946 in Central District of Shahrud, Semnan, Iran to a well-off family.

When he was able to buy an instrument on his own at fifteen, he began teaching himself to play the electric guitar [9] [10] and became interested in Western music.

The song "Gol-e Yakh" was written by Mahdi Akhavan Langeroudi, who was Yaghmaei's friend at the university and one of the significant modern Persian poets.

When you stay by me, my loneliness is swept by winds Winter flowers grow in my heart He released 4 singles from his contracted record company Ahange Rooz.

In 1973 "Gole Yakh" / "Del Dareh Pir Misheh" and "Leila" / "Paiz", in 1974 "Hajme Khali" / "Akhm Nakon" and in 1975 "Saraabe Toe" / "Dar Enteha" was released.

[7] Although many musicians immigrated to cities like Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris and other European countries where exile communities were settled, Yaghmaei preferred to stay in Iran for his principles.

In 1987, he released his fourth solo instrumental album Diar which was recorded without bass, guitar and drums, as dictated by the Iranian government.

[16][17] After 12 years of trying to obtain the required permit from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the authority denied to release this album in Iran.

Latter in 2016, since two years of restriction not to use types of equipment such as acoustic system, sound engineering, professional microphones, amplifiers, Roland keyboard, electric guitar, 8 track recorder and other necessary equipment[16][8] the album was released by Now-Again in United States and the album was banned by the Iranian government.

[14][23] Such as describing a melancholic picture, blues riffs, strings and analog synthesizer sounds make a feeling that settles in the heart.

Due to his records being under heavy censorship in Iran, Kourosh now runs a private music school and studio in Tehran.

His 1974 single "Gol-e Yakh"[34] about disappearing youth is sampled in "Adam and Eve" on 2018 album Nasir by American rapper Nas.

Gol-e Yakh was also featured in "The Rock" episode of the Apple TV+ series Little America, which focused on the immigrant life of an Iranian family living in New York.