Real name: کورش یغمایی (= Kourosh Yaghmaei)

Effective period / Period of releases: 1973 - 2011

Kourosh Yaghmaei (Persian: کورش یغمایی‎ also spelled as Kourosh Yaghmaee, born 3 December 1946) is an Iranian singer, songwriter, composer and record producer, who started his career in the early 1970s. Regarded as one of the greatest Persian psychedelic rock musicians in the history of Iranian rock music, he is known as "the Godfather of Iranian psychedelic rock", as well as the "king of rock". His voice was banned for 17 years after 1979.