Erfan Hajrasuliha, known professionally as Erfan Pāydār, is an Iranian rapper, songwriter, producer, and label owner. He is one of the pioneers of Persian Rap. Erfan's "Az Khaneh Ta Goor" was the one of the first professionally produced Persian rap album, released by a major record label. He is nicknamed as "Sun of Persian Rap" by his fans. He is the founder of the label Paydar. His views are a result of his personal experiences and that is reflected in his poems. His songs provide a mixture of commentary on daily life as well politics, poetry and social issues.
Biography
Life and career
Erfan was born in Isfahan, Iran, on 3 August 1983. He ended his career after the "Khodahafezi" album was released in 2016 but he returned to Iranian hip-hop in 2018 with the single song "Khosh Omadi"..
Work to date
He released his debut albumAz Khaneh Ta Goor in 2007. Erfan's focus on his first album was to introduce Iranian hip hop to a wider audience and detail some of his frustrations with Iranian music. The album was named after a poem by Molaana Rumi about death. The album encompasses some of his thoughts as a travelling immigrant from his home country Iran. On 1 September 2011 Erfan released the single, 'Donya Male Maast" featuring Sami Beigi.
''Az Khaneh Ta Goor'' (2007)
On 24 July 2007, Erfan released his first album. Earlier events had provided inspiration for Erfan's first album. Erfan was briefly arrested and jailed in 2002. "Sad Ghasam" was featured on Erfan's debut album, Az Khaneh Ta Goor.
Musical style and influence
Erfan has said that "many old school/new school musicians and many old school/new school Iranian poets" have influenced him in his style. In his interview with Radio Javan he names some of his influences as traditional Iranian poets such as Omar Khayyam, Hafez and Saddi Shirazi and more recent Iranian poets such as Sohrab Sepehri and Parvin E'tesami. He also mentions traditional Iranian music and names singers Dariush and Googoosh as well as American rappers Tupac Shakur, Nas and Mos Def.
In 2016, he released an album which he ended his career with. This album includes 15 tracks named Mosafer, Almas, Gaahi, Khodafezi, Chimigi, Alefba, Virus, Enekas, Barnameh, Rahe Man2, Khuneye Madarbozorge, Ghahvetalkh, Lorazpam Intro, Lorazpam, Khodafezi. He made this album featuring Taham, Gdaal, Cornellaa, Behzad Leito, Nona, Khashayar, Paya, Sijal, Sami Beigi and album mixed and mastered by APlus and AFX. His reason for ending to his career is mentioned in "Khodafezi" track, which was the fourth track of his Khodafezi album.
Khosh Oomadi
in 2018, he came back to the market by his song named Khosh Oomadi. Sina Valiollah, producer of Chand Shanbe ba Sina, asked him that is there any relation between Khodafezi and Khosh Oomadi because you finished your career by Khodafezi and you started it again by Khosh oomadi. But he said "No there was not any relation between my song's name and my career."
After Khosh Oomadi
He released two songs after Khosh Oomadi named, Mano Natarsoun and Hale Man Khoobeh.
