Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. Mehdi Rajabian: Besides the philosophical gist of this album, either from musical ...

Mehdi Rajabian: "In the Middle East, an instrument can be as powerful as a gun." Mehdi Rajabian could be arrested at any moment. The 30-year-old has already been imprisoned twice for making music the ...

Dissident composer Mehdi Rajabian’s music has already landed him to prison. But the Iranian musician is back with a new album of political songs that includes a collaboration with recently imprisoned ...

Iranian artist Mehdi Rajabian released another album on Friday, once again defying a prohibition that reportedly landed him in prison for two years. Rajabian captured the interests of American ...

Mehdi Rajabian once had his own recording studio in Sari, Iran, boasting moody overhead lighting and blond wood walls. Now, he spends most of his time in the dark basement of his home, crouching on a ...

Iranian composer Mehdi Rajabian has defied the efforts of the Iranian authorities to silence him, by releasing a new album in collaboration with a string of prominent international musicians. It ...

Mehdi Rajabian is thirty years old. A music lover from a young age, the creative arts forever beckoned to him. His appreciation of music took him on a journey from a young composer to the owner of a ...

Mehdi Rajabian is considered a dangerous criminal In Iran: he’s been arrested several times, spent months in solitary confinement, and is closely monitored by the government while under house arrest.

In September, four of Rajabian's pieces will be performed live for the first time in Zurich, Switzerland, and he is working with family music act Alphabet Rockers on new music. By Frank DiGiacomo ...

Mehdi Rajabian could be arrested at any moment. The 30-year-old has already been imprisoned twice for making music the Iranian authorities considered unacceptable. The first time, he was kept in ...