Mahsa Vahdat: Vocal
Marjan Vahdat: Vocal
Mehdi Teimori: Ney
Ali Rahimi: Percussion
Born in Tehran in 1973, Mahsa Vahdat started her music career by taking piano lessons from Minoo Mohebbi. Later she continued to work with Laleh Axevlî. She worked on traditional Iranian music with Pari Melekî, Mahdi Fellah and Muhsin Keramati. First, Ramín Kakawend, then Mesud Shuari, took lessons from Kurdish sadar coaches. In 1993, she graduated from the Faculty of Music of Tehran University with a master degree.
Marjan Vahdat, who was born in 1976 in Tehran, started her music by taking piano lessons from Minoo Mohebbi like her sister Mahsa and performed vocals of Peri Melekî. She was in collections with Mahdi Fallah and Sîma Bína and began to work on Kurdish percussion instruments. She got a rightful reputation in music and she organized concerts in various cities by establishing Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat group together with her sister.
They came to the world music agenda for the first time on the Lullabies from the Axis of Evil album in 2004, collected by Norway's most prestigious music company KKV. On this interest, the duo, who made an album in the name of Songs from a Persian Garden (2007), began to be searched for their music surroundings as a voice of Iranian women by offering their concerts abroad. They released examples of the 11th, 12th and 13th century Iranian poems with their album Ez Hewa me (I am Eve) which they released in 2008, and the album received many international awards.
In 2009 Mahsa released “Scent of Reunion” – love duets with American blues singer Mighty Sam McClain. In 2010 the album “In the mirror of Wine” with the Norwegian choir SKRUK and in 2012 the sisters published the album “Twinklings of hope” which won the American Independent Music award. In 2012 Mahsa released another album with Mighty Sam McClain: “A deeper tone of longing” and Marjan released her first solo album “Blue Fields”. In 2015 Mahsa released “Traces of an old Vineyard” a collaboration with the Norwegian jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen. In 2016 she released her a cappella album “The sun will rise” for which she won the German critics’ award. In 2017 Marjan released her second solo album “Serene Hope”.