Pop · DevelopingFP-033 · Side B
Hamidreza Ghorbani writes, records and masters pop in Persian and English from Tehran
The Isfahan-born singer-songwriter handles every stage of his records himself, and his 2026 output has been steady: an eight-song album in June and a 15-track collection in August.
Hamidreza Ghorbani is an independent singer-songwriter and producer who, according to his Music In Africa directory profile, was born in Isfahan in 1991 and lives in Tehran. He works in pop and pop-rock, sings in Persian and American English, and handles recording, mixing and mastering himself. Public coverage of him beyond his own listings is thin, so this piece sticks to what the release pages show.
Where he started
The same profile says he began writing songs at 16, started out in hip-hop around 2007, and moved to pop on guitar and then piano. It lists three records from 2021 and 2022: Songs of Hope and Peace, Love Is Enough and Life Goes On. The Free Music Archive bio carries the same discography and, as of this writing, shows 55 tracks and 30.5K plays.
On Apple Music, the English-language material sits under a shared artist page, Shay Watson And Hamidreza Ghorbani. It includes the Life Goes On EP from March 2022, with guest vocalists named on three of its four songs: Ella Hartt on "Crazy", Jenny Teator on "Life" and Sarah Rebecca on "Hello". A single, Caged (feat. Shay Watson), followed in August 2022. His own Apple Music artist page lists the 2019 single Molana under a second profile.
The 2026 releases
The recent work is in Persian. Rooz O Shab came out on June 2, 2026, with eight songs including "Ba To", "Nabze Ashegh" and "Khabe Parvaz", each running between about two and a third and three and a quarter minutes. On August 8 he followed it with The 2026 Collection, Vol. 1, 15 tracks that mix Persian titles such as "Traffic", "Madar" and "Zire Pooste Shahr" with English ones such as "Stay With Me" and "Pain And Rain". Both are also on Deezer, where the artist page showed two fans at the time of writing.
What to watch
The output is large for a one-person operation, and the audience numbers are still small, so the question is whether any of these songs finds listeners outside the Persian-language market. Volume 1 in the collection's title suggests more is coming. For now, the catalog on Apple Music and Deezer is the verifiable record, and it is worth hearing for the Persian-language material alone.