Mansour

Mansour Jafari Mamaghani (, born 28 July 1971), better known as Mansour, is an Iranian musical artist specializing in Iranian traditional music based in Southern California.

Iran's Green Movement and Nokia Club controversy 2009

After the Iranian presidential election in June 2009 and protests against its results, Mansour recorded a song titled "Nedaye Eshgh". The word "Neda" in the title of this song was used as a symbolic meaning of "calling" for freedom and hope, and also it was the first name of one of the assassinated people in these protests: Neda Agha-Soltan. Mansour also participated in some of the protests that were held in Los Angeles, California.

Despite his involvement in these causes, when Mansour began promotions for his concert at Club Nokia in Los Angeles on 26 September 2009, many people criticized his decision to perform at a place with the name of the Nokia Company, which had sold monitoring technology devices to Iran's government after protests against election outcomes. Mansour reacted against this criticism, saying, "Nokia Club is owned by AEG Company and had nothing to do with Nokia" and "the people who started these rumors should respect these holy activities [protests] in Iran and stop playing games with people's emotions." Despite this comments, Club Nokia is actually owned by both AEG and Nokia, but the planning for the concert was done months before the Iran's Green Movements and Nokia's part against the protesters. Nokia was not the sponsor of Mansour's concert; the program was presented by Century Records and Goldenvoice Company.

Discography

Studio albums

With Taraneh Records 1996: Tasvir Akhar 1997: Daricheh 2001: Zendegi (Life) 2002: Divooneh (Crazy) 2005: Farari (Fugitive) 2007: Ghashangeh (Beautiful)

With Caltex Records 1994: Ferferehayeh Bibaad 1998: Ghayegh Kaghazi 2000: Faghat Bekhatareh To (Only For You)

With Century Records USA 2009: Janjaali

With Avang Music 2013: No Limit

With SOHO Entertainment 2017: Radical 2019: Ensane Nou 2023: Miras

Singles

2009: Nedaye Eshgh 2010: Mikhaam Bahat Beraghsam 2010: Zendegi Chist 2011: Bari Bakh 2011: Beshkan 2012: Eshgh Nemikhabeh 2012: Man Bahat Jooram 2013: Naz Maka 2013: Delam Khoshe 2017: Khoshbakhti 2017: Delshooreha 2017: Ay Eshgham 2022: Miras 2023: Lalaei 2023: Ma Ghahremanim 2023: Sobhe Azadi 2023: Tazeh Kojasho Didi

Live albums

With MZM Records 1996: Mansour Live in Concert 2010: Mansour Live in Concert Club Nokia (Audio CD)

DVDs/music videos

2001: Life ... On The Road DVD (music videos Of "Zendegi" album) 2005: Farari DVD (music videos Of "Divooneh" and some music videos from "Farari", include In "Farari" Album Package) 2007: Only For You DVD (music videos of "Faghat Be Khatereh To" album) 2010: Mansour Live in Concert Club Nokia DVD (includes videos of songs performed at club nokia concert)

Guest appearances

Black Cats (Featuring Mansour) – Gole Yakh (remake of Persian famous song with the same name, the original singer Is Kourosh Yaghmaei). Mahasti and Hayedeh (Featuring Mansour) – Vedaa (Shab-e Eshgh) (remake of song by Hayedeh and her sister Mahasti. She sings this song in the memory of her late sister, after her death. In this song Mansour just sang in the choruses, Mansour's part in original song was performed by Persian pop legend Ebi).

Filmography

2001: America So Beautiful