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Amir Tataloo

Iranian singer

Amir Tataloo (Persian: امیر تتلو), is an Iranian singer-songwriter and rapper.

Amir Tataloo
Tataloo in 2018
Born
AmirHossein Maghsoudloo

(1987-09-21) September 21, 1987 (age 37)
Tehran, Iran
Occupations
  • Artist
  • Singer
  • rapper
  • songwriter
Musical career
Genres
Years active2003–present
Labels
WebsiteOfficial Website

Tataloo is the first R&B singer in Iran and also he is part of the first generation of the Iranian underground hip hop scene.

His debut album, Zire Hamkaf, was released in 2011. Since then, he has released 16 albums.

Tataloo was arrested several times when living in Iran by the Islamic Republic authorities.

In 2021, Amir Tataloo released the album Fereshteh by Universal Music Group. He is the first Iranian to collaborate with Universal Music Group.

Career

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Tataloo started his music career in 2003. He began by releasing songs on his personal blog. He started as an underground musician. He remains unauthorized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. He was described by Time magazine[3] as "A rapper with so many fans" and by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty[4] as an artist with a "strong fan base" among the youth in Iran. His music style has been described as a "popular flashy blend of pop, rap and R&B".[5]

He released a single, "Manam Yeki az un Yazdahtam" (I'm Also One of Those Eleven Players), for the Iranian National Football Team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[6]

During the Iran/5+1 nuclear talks in Vienna in July 2015, he released a song supporting the Iranian nuclear program. The music video was produced on the Iranian navy ship Damavand.[7] The song was the top trending Google search in Persian.[8] This song became an instant controversy in Iran, mostly for the Iranian Reformists. They compared the song to Mohammadreza Shajarian's songs in support of Iranian protests in 2009.[9]

In 2015 he attended the Tehran Peace Museum. He was praised by the Iran-Iraq war veterans for his music video, Shohada (The Martyrs). He was introduced as the peace ambassador of the museum.[10][11]

In 2018, after many arrests by the Iranian authorities and failing to get a music activity license from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tataloo left Iran and moved to Turkey. This where he is currently lives.[12]

Personal life

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Tataloo is vegan.[13][14] He is preaching the vegan philosophy and lifestyle. He asks his fans not to kill and eat animals.[15][16] One of his many nicknames is Nature's Son.[17]

Discography

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Albums

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  • Zire Hamkaf (2011)
  • Tatality (2013)
  • Man (2014)
  • Shomareh 6 (2015)
  • Mamnoo'e (2015)
  • Shomareh 7 (2016)
  • Ghahreman (2017)
  • Amir (2017)
  • Sayeh (2018)
  • Behesht(2018)
  • Dozakh (2019)
  • 87 (2020)
  • Yakh(2021)
  • Fereshteh (2021)
  • Sahm (2022)
  • Boht Nadaram (2022)
  • Koni Monia (2022)

Notes

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  1. ↑ Carles Feixa; Carmen Leccardi; Pam Nilan (2016), Youth, Space and Time: Agoras and Chronotopes in the Global City, BRILL, p. 227, ISBN 9789004324589
  2. ↑ Rouzbeh Hamid (2 October 2016), "Tataloo: the regular arrest of cursed celebrities in Iran", Radio Zamaneh, retrieved 11 June 2017
  3. ↑ Kay Armin Serjoie (16 July 2015). "This Is the Surprising Way the Iranian Military Responded to the Nuclear Deal". Time. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
  4. ↑ Farangis Najibullah & Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah (25 August 2016). "Iranian Fans Take To Social Media To Demand Rapper's Release". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Hanif Kashani (15 July 2015), "Iran's Foreign and Defense Policies", Al-Monitor, archived from the original on 26 January 2021, retrieved 1 March 2017
  6. ↑ محمدی, مجید (13 June 2014). "چندگانگی و سرگشتگی هویتی در آهنگ‌های ایرانی "برزیل ۲۰۱۴"". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  7. ↑ Ishaan Tharoor (16 July 2015). "Watch: Iranian rapper celebrates nuclear power from the deck of a warship". Washington Post.
  8. ↑ "This Nuclear Propaganda Video Was Top Google Search During Talks". 2015-07-17. Archived from the original on 2015-07-17. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  9. ↑ "از انرژی هسته‌ای تا 'بغ‌بغو' در گفت‌وگوی رشیدپور و تتلو". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  10. ↑ "دیدار امیر تتلو با جانبازان صلح طلب - گزارش های تصویری - تولیدات نصر - ویدیو - نصر تی وی". 2015-10-10. Archived from the original on 2015-10-10. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  11. ↑ "تتلو سفیر صلح شد و تتلیتی‌ها را هم دعوت کرد / عکس این خواننده در کنار دو جانباز". 2015-10-11. Archived from the original on 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  12. ↑ "تتلو آزاد شد". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  13. ↑ جم, جدیدترین اخبار ایران و جهان خبرگزاری جام. "چهره های گیاهخوار؛ از تتلو تا محسن چاوشی+عکس". fa (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  14. ↑ "در بشقاب ناهار امیر تتلو چه خبر است؟". پایگاه خبری شما نیوز (in Persian). Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  15. ↑ "امیر تتلو", ویکی‌پدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد (in Persian), 2021-01-26, retrieved 2021-01-29
  16. ↑ "انتقاد امیر تتلو از مهران مدیری! +عکس".
  17. ↑ http://jamejamonline.ir/fa/news/945220%7Caccess-date=2021-01-29%7Cwebsite=fa%7Clanguage=fa

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