Song of the day: Mahsa Vahdat/Ha Leyli

Mahsa Vahdat was born in 1973 in Tehran. She began her musical journey at a very young age. She moved to Paris due to the Iranian Regime’s pressure. After learning to play piano, she studied traditional Persian singing under Pari Meleki and Mehdi Fallah. She entered Tehran Arts University in 1993 and graduated with a B.A. in Music in 1995. As women are not allowed to sing in public as a solo singer after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Mahsa Vahdat secretly recorded her “Songs From The Persian Garden” album. Mahsa has performed as an independent artist in concerts and festivals in Asia, Europe, the US, and Africa together with musicians from Iran, Europe, and America since 1995. Following her participation in Lullabies from the Axis of Evil (2004), Mahsa started a long-lasting collaboration with the Norwegian record label Kirkelig Kulturverksted (KKV) and producer Erik Hillestad, which led to a worldwide release of a series of records.