Iranian pop music

[4] Some of Iran's classical pop artists include Hayedeh, Mahasti, Andy, Aref, Dariush, Ebi, Faramarz Aslani, Farhad, Fereydun Farrokhzad, Giti Pashaei, Googoosh, Hassan Shamaizadeh, Homeyra, Leila Forouhar, [[Nooshafarin]], Parviz Maghsadi, Ramesh, Shahram Shabpareh, and Varoujan,shohreh solati,Bijan Mortazavi After the 1979 Revolution, pop music was banned and completely disappeared from the scene in Iran.

Ali Moallem (poet)[8] and Fereydoun Shahbazian (musician) headed a council at the IRIB that supervised the revival of domestic pop music.

[9] Shadmehr Aghili was one of the first post-revolutionary Iranian singers who received significant support, including promotion by national television, to produce new Persian pop songs inside Iran.

[11] They collaborated with the well-known British-Irish singer Chris de Burgh in their fourth album Bi to, Ba to,[12] and were the first Iranian band to be featured in the English biographical dictionary and directory of International Who's Who in Music.

[citation needed] In late 2009, Sirvan Khosravi became the first domestic Iranian artist to achieve high-rotation airplay on a regular European radio station.