:Kourosh Yaghmaei

Kourosh Yaghmaei was born on 3 December 1946 in Central District of Shahrud, Semnan, Iran to a well-off family. His name Kourosh ({{langx|peo|𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁}} Kūrauš), is a common Iranian male given name, shared with the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great.{{r|Rock Icon}} He is the second oldest of four brothers; Yaghmaei's brothers Keyvan, Kamran, and Kambiz are also rock musicians. His grandfather was a landowner and one of his distant ancestors was a popular Iranian poet.{{r|Holslin-Vice}} The family later relocated to Tehran, where Yaghmaei studied at Shahid Beheshti University.{{r|Rock Icon}}

Yaghmaei began playing music at the age of ten upon receiving a santur as a gift from his father. Having no music teacher, he taught himself to play traditional Iranian music for several years. When he was able to buy an instrument on his own at fifteen, he began teaching himself to play the electric guitar {{r|Godather}} {{cite web |title=Kourosh Yaghmaei |url=http://munster-records.com/en/artist/YZ/kourosh-yaghmaei |website=munster-records.com |publisher=Munster Records |access-date=19 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008114247/http://munster-records.com/en/artist/YZ/kourosh-yaghmaei |archive-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=live }} and became interested in Western music.

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In the early 1960s, Yaghmaei started his first band, The Raptures, with some of his friends. Inspired by listening to the vinyl records of surf-rockers like The Ventures, The Raptures covered The Ventures, The Kinks, The Beatles, and The Monkees. The 1967 lineup of The Raptures consisted of Yaghmaei (lead vocal, guitar), Bahram Saeedi (electric guitar), Kamran Khasheh (organ), Jahangir (bass), and Viguen (drums). He also played in another group named Rebels for a while, the members of which later gradually took their own places in the Iranian rock scene.{{r|Rock Icon}}

During the early 1970s, Yaghmaei set up his solo band with his brothers Kamran and Kambiz.{{r|Holslin-Vice}} At that time he was on guitar, bass, and vocals.{{r|Rock Icon}} His music combined Iranian melodies, instrumentals, vocals, and tones with Western harmonies, scales, and modes.

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In 1973, Yaghmaei made his debut single when he was studying in Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. The song "Gol-e Yakh" was written by Mahdi Akhavan Langeroudi, who was Yaghmaei's friend at the university and one of the significant modern Persian poets.{{sfn|Breyley|Fatemi|2015|p=129}}{{r|Rock Icon}} "Gol-e Yakh" penetrated beyond the borders of Iran, and thereafter various performances in other countries of the world continued to this day.{{Cite web |url=https://www.kaleme.com/1392/08/11/klm-163498/ |title=دردنامه كوروش يغمايي؛ 25 سال ممنوع‌الکار بوده‌ام « سایت خبری تحلیلی کلمه |website=kaleme.com |access-date=14 August 2019 |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814070644/https://www.kaleme.com/1392/08/11/klm-163498/ |archive-date=14 August 2019 |url-status=live }}{{r|Sodomsky}} The song brought Yaghmaei great fame and it was adapted for various languages.{{r|Rock Icon}} In the same year, he released debut solo album Gol-e Yakh under the label of Now-Again Records,{{cite news |last1=Gouvrion |first1=Alain |title=Kourosh Yaghmaei, Back From The Brink |url=https://www.rollingstone.fr/kourosh-yaghmaei-back-from-the-brink/ |access-date=14 January 2020 |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=17 November 211 |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030071942/https://www.rollingstone.fr/kourosh-yaghmaei-back-from-the-brink/ |archive-date=30 October 2019 |url-status=live}} an American independent record label based in Los Angeles which is also a subsidiary of Stones Throw Records.

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|text=When you stay by me, my loneliness is swept by winds

Winter flowers grow in my heart

|title="Gol-e Yakh", 1973

|sign=Mahdi Akhavan Langeroudi

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He released 4 singles from his contracted record company Ahange Rooz. In 1973 "Gole Yakh" / "Del Dareh Pir Misheh" and "Leila" / "Paiz", in 1974 "Hajme Khali" / "Akhm Nakon" and in 1975 "Saraabe Toe" / "Dar Enteha" was released. Despite high record sales, he earned only modest royalties.{{r|Rock Icon}} He released two albums before being banned, both of which are important works of Iranian rock history. Between 1975 and 1979, Yaghmaei recorded 24 songs in total. 17 of those songs were collected in two albums named Hajm-e Khali (1975){{r|maharat}} and Sārāb-e Toe (1977) released on cassettes. The remaining 7 songs were recorded in the pre-revolution riot period between 1978 and 1979.{{r|Rock Icon}}

Yaghmaei performed on radio and television in Iran until the late 1970s.{{cite news |last1=Peter |first1=Holslin |title=From National Star to Enemy of the State: Iranian Rock Pioneer Kourosh Yaghmaei Fights On |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnjp88/from-national-star-to-enemy-of-the-state-iranian-rock-pioneer-kourosh-yaghmaei-fights-on |access-date=7 January 2020 |publisher=Vice |date=18 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726212520/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnjp88/from-national-star-to-enemy-of-the-state-iranian-rock-pioneer-kourosh-yaghmaei-fights-on |archive-date=26 July 2019 |url-status=live }} However, following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the newly-formed Islamic Republic prioritized the rooting out of Western influence in Iran and began banning the music of many Iranian artists, including that of Yaghmaei.{{cite news |last1=Fanen |first1=Sophian |title=Rock around Téhéran |url=https://next.liberation.fr/musique/2011/12/17/rock-around-teheran_782477 |access-date=19 January 2020 |publisher=Liberation |date=17 December 2011 |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221230346/https://next.liberation.fr/musique/2011/12/17/rock-around-teheran_782477 |archive-date=21 December 2018 |url-status=live }} Government authorities swiftly shut down his music, barring him from releasing records or performing live.{{r|Holslin-Vice}} As he was no longer allowed to sing and perform publicly in Iran, Yaghmaei's career suffered profoundly,{{r|RS-Alain}} and aside from a few concerts in Sweden and Norway in 1993, he did not perform much outside the country. Spurred by the regime's ever-increasing pressure on music immediately following the revolution, {{r|Rock Icon}} Yaghmaei spent over a month recording albums Sol-e 1 (1979, reissued on CD as Parandeye Mohajer by Los Angeles-based record label Caltex Records), Sol-e 2 (1980, recorded with Fereydoon Forooghi) and Sol-e 3, which was renamed to Arayesh-E Khorshid during its release in 2000,{{sfn|Breyley|Fatemi|2015|p=135}} According to Kevan Harris, a lecturer from the University of California, the government after the Islamic revolution were too much motivated to stop the impacts of Western and European culture; therefore it was convinced to diminish musicians like Kourosh.{{r|Rock Icon}} Although many musicians immigrated to cities like Los Angeles, Montreal, Paris and other European countries where exile communities were settled, Yaghmaei preferred to stay in Iran for his principles. Where he stated that:

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|quote="I believed that if I had changed my career it would be an unrespectful behaviour to my music and myself and also it would mean betrayal to my cultural roots. Now that I look back, I am glad I did not bribe anyone or bow to pressures, but lived all these 37 years with honour. I believe even in an unequal battle, resistance is preferred to giving up."{{r|Holslin-Vice}}

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After the Islamic Revolution, Yaghmaei was banned from performing for seventeen years. During that time he worked for children and published books and cassettes. In 1987, he released his fourth solo instrumental album Diar which was recorded without bass, guitar and drums, as dictated by the Iranian government. In addition, Yaghmaei arranged folkloric pieces to be played by the Great National Orchestra.

In the early 1990s, Yaghmaei got permission from the Iranian government to release albums under some restrictions. He released studio album Gorg haye Ghorosneh in 1990. Caltex Records titled his "best of the 1970s" as "Gole Yakh" released in 1991. During 1993, the restrictions became looser and Kourosh got permission to perform concerts in Norway and Sweden. In 1994 he released studio album Sib-e Noghreii (The Silver Apple), in which the regime didn't let him publish his portrait as an artwork, therefore album cover was only graphic arts. In 1996 Mah va Palang and in 1997 Kabous was released.

In the early 2000s, he released two solo albums Arayesh-E Khorshid (2000), which primarily recorded as Sol-e 3 was censored one track before released and Tofang-e daste Noghre (2001), was the last album that legally published in Iran.

{{main|Malek Jamshid}}

Between 2003 and 2006, Yaghmaei worked with his last studio album titled Malek Jamshid.{{cite news |title=KOUROSH YAGHAEI's album Malek Jamshid released in the west after censorship in Iran |url=https://www.rappcats.com/kourosh-yaghmaei-malek-jamshid/ |access-date=21 January 2020 |publisher=Now-Again Records |date=10 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520053819/https://www.rappcats.com/kourosh-yaghmaei-malek-jamshid/ |archive-date=20 May 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last1=Irfani |first1=Faisal |title=40 Tahun Revolusi Iran 1979: Geliat Musik Bawah Tanah Iran 40 Tahun Pasca-Revolusi |trans-title=40 Years of the 1979 Iranian Revolution: Twisted Iranian Underground Music 40 Years Post-Revolution |url=https://tirto.id/geliat-musik-bawah-tanah-iran-40-tahun-pasca-revolusi-dhAU |access-date=21 January 2020 |language=id |date=23 February 2019}} After 12 years of trying to obtain the required permit from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the authority denied to release this album in Iran. Latter in 2016, since two years of restriction not to use types of equipment such as acoustic system, sound engineering, professional microphones, amplifiers, Roland keyboard, electric guitar, 8 track recorder and other necessary equipment{{r|NA-censorship in Iran}}{{r|Holslin-Vice}} the album was released by Now-Again in United States and the album was banned by the Iranian government.{{r|Rock Icon}}{{r|NA-censorship in Iran}}

He released debut compilation Back from the Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran: 1973–1979 in 2011.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Randall |title='70s Iranian rock of Googoosh and Kourosh gets reissued [MP3] |url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/08/70s-iranian-rock-of-googoosh-and-kourosh-gets-reissue-treatment.html |access-date=9 January 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111071009/https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/08/70s-iranian-rock-of-googoosh-and-kourosh-gets-reissue-treatment.html |archive-date=11 January 2020 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Kourosh – Back From The Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock From Iran |url=https://www.nowagainrecords.com/kourosh-back-from-the-brink/ |publisher=Now-Again |access-date=8 January 2020 |date=15 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602122021/http://www.nowagainrecords.com/kourosh-back-from-the-brink/ |archive-date=2 June 2017 |url-status=live}} A two-disc celebration of Yaghmaei's most well-known numbers, recorded between 1973 and 1979, before the Islamic Revolution.{{cite journal |last1=Bekhrad |first1=Joobin |title=Back from the Brink |journal=Reorient |date=17 July 2012 |url=http://www.reorientmag.com/2012/07/kourosh-yaghmaei-erkin-koray-are-back-from-the-brink/ |access-date=16 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508181744/http://www.reorientmag.com/2012/07/kourosh-yaghmaei-erkin-koray-are-back-from-the-brink/ |archive-date=8 May 2019 |url-status=dead }}

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Yaghmaei has unique Iranian style of psychedelic rock and blues-rock music. He brought a lot of innovation to Iranian rock,{{cite news |title=بیوگرافی کوروش یغمایی، پدر راک ایران |url=https://setare.com/fa/news/26468/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86 |access-date=19 January 2020 |publisher=Setare |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719001506/https://setare.com/fa/news/26468/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86 |archive-date=19 July 2019 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Biography |url=http://www.kourosh-yaghmaei.com/biography/Biography-p.htm |website=kourosh-yaghmaei.com |publisher=Kourosh Yaghmaei |access-date=19 January 2020 |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119234515/http://kourosh-yaghmaei.com/biography/Biography-p.htm |archive-date=19 November 2015 |url-status=live }} using the keyboard as the rhythm of the song instead of the guitar is part of this innovation.{{Cite web |url=https://persianv.com/maharat/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C.html |title=کوروش یغمایی {{!}} کوروش یغمایی ، پدر موسیقی راک چطور زندگی کرده است؟ |date=1977 |website=Persianv |access-date=14 August 2019 |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814072154/https://persianv.com/maharat/%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C.html |archive-date=14 August 2019 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://boyernews.com/29242/%da%a9%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%b4-%db%8c%d8%ba%d9%85%d8%a7%db%8c%db%8c-%d8%b1%d8%a7-%da%86%d9%87-%da%a9%d8%b3%db%8c-%d9%88-%da%86%da%af%d9%88%d9%86%d9%87-%da%a9%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%9f-%d8%b9%da%a9%d8%b3/ |title=کوروش یغمایی را چه کسی و چگونه کشت؟ +عکس |date=3 March 2013|website=Boyer News |access-date=14 August 2019 |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814070651/http://boyernews.com/29242/%da%a9%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%b4-%db%8c%d8%ba%d9%85%d8%a7%db%8c%db%8c-%d8%b1%d8%a7-%da%86%d9%87-%da%a9%d8%b3%db%8c-%d9%88-%da%86%da%af%d9%88%d9%86%d9%87-%da%a9%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%9f-%d8%b9%da%a9%d8%b3/ |archive-date=14 August 2019 |url-status=live }} Such as describing a melancholic picture, blues riffs, strings and analog synthesizer sounds make a feeling that settles in the heart. As the songs last for 6 to 8 minutes approximately, many progressive movements could easily be a part of the music.{{r|Rock Icon}} According to Iranian writer Ebrahim Nabavi, "Yaghmaei has had a profound impact on Psychedelic rock in Iran."{{sfn|Nabavi|2014|p=207}} Yaghmaei is known as the father of Iranian rock music because of his deep influence on Iranian rock music.{{cite news |title=کوروش یغمایی؛ پدر موسیقی راک ایران |url=https://www.bartarinha.ir/fa/news/345680/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86 |last=زندگی |first=مجله اینترنتی برترین ها {{!}} پورتال خبری و سبک |access-date=19 January 2020 |publisher=Bartarinha |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814070650/https://www.bartarinha.ir/fa/news/345680/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86 |archive-date=14 August 2019 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telexiran.com/News/برترین-ها/چهره-ها/چهره-های-ایرانی/کوروش-یغمایی؛-پدر-موسیقی-راک-ایران|title=کوروش یغمایی؛ پدر موسیقی راک ایران – اخبار چهره ها|last=تلکسیران|first=پایگاه خبری|website=پایگاه خبری تلکسیران|language=fa-IR|access-date=14 August 2019}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web |url=https://techrato.com/2016/12/04/kourosh-yaghmaei-mini-bio/ |title=Kourosh Yaghmaei Mini Bio |date=1995 |website=Techrato |access-date=14 August 2019 |language=fa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814070646/https://techrato.com/2016/12/04/kourosh-yaghmaei-mini-bio/ |archive-date=14 August 2019 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://iran90.blogpo.ir/post/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%8C%D8%BA%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%82%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9-2329|title=کوروش یغمایی؛ پدر موسیقی راک ایران|website=وبلاگ ایران 90|language=fa|access-date=14 August 2019}} "He was one of the people who was doing the Western-Eastern kind of hybrid music the right way," says Ashkan Kooshanejad, a British-Iranian composer.{{r|Holslin-Vice}}

Yaghmaei has two sons, Kaveh Yaghmaei, also a musician{{r|Ajdamsani}} that lives in Vancouver, Canada;{{r|Holslin-Vice}} and Kamil Yaghmaei. He has a daughter named Satgin Yaghmaei. Due to his records being under heavy censorship in Iran, Kourosh now runs a private music school and studio in Tehran.{{r|LA-Hundley}}

• Gol-e Yakh (1973)
• Hajm-e Khali (1975)
• Sarab-e To (1977)
• Diar (1987)
• Gorg haye Ghorosneh (1990)
• Sib-e Noghreii (The Silver Apple) (1994)
• Mah va Palang (1996)
• Parandeye Mohajer (1996)
• Kabous (Nightmare) (1997)
• Arayesh-E Khorshid (2000)
• Tofang-e daste Noghre (2001)
• Malek Jamshid (2016)
• Rebel (2024)

• Sol-e 1 (1979)
• Sol-e 2 (1980)

• Back from the Brink: Pre-Revolution Psychedelic Rock from Iran: 1973–1979 (2011)
• Happy Birthday (Joyful songs for Children) (2012)

• 50 Golden Songs of Giti, Afshin, Kourosh Yaghmaee & Fereydoon Farrokhzad – Persian Music (2004)

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• "Gol-e Yakh" / "Del Dareh Pir Misheh" ("My Heart is Getting Old") (1973)
• "Khaar" ("Thistle") (1973)
• "Leila" / "Paiz" ("Autumn") (1974)
• "Sarab-e To" ("Your Mirage") / "Dar Enteha" ("At The End") (1977)
• "Hajm-e Khali" ("Empty Bulk") (1975)
• "Akhm Nakon" ("Don't Frown") (1975)
• "Eshghe Iran" ("Iran's Love") (1977)
• "Zadeye Mehr" ("Born to Kindness")(1997)
• "Ghahre Afyoun" (2012)
• "Vatan" ("Birth Country" "Iran") (2012)
• "Faaje-e" ("Crisis") (2013)
• "Kaabous" ("Nightmare") (1997)
• "Nowrouz ("Iranian New Year)" (2016)
• "Asmar Asmar" (2016)
• "Pedar" ("Father")
• "Shabe Yalda" ("Longest night of the year")
• "Nedamatgah" ("Jail")
• "Panjerei Roo Be Sobh" ("A Window Opens Toward Morning")
• "Marde Khakestari" ("A Gray Man" aka "Old Man")

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Kourosh Yaghmaei also composed several film scores, starting in 1991, with Gorghaye Gorosneh.

Vice Principals is an American comedy television series which in season 1, episode 4 called "Run for the Money" when Gamby and Russell experience Psychedelic drugs on themselves when Russell tried to sabotage the football game, the background music plays the song "Saraabe Toe”. The song "Sarab-e To" can also be heard in the 2014 American horror comedy film Summer of Blood.

Yaghmaei's songs have been sampled on several albums by various artists. His 1974 single "Gol-e Yakh"{{r|Setaro}} about disappearing youth is sampled in "Adam and Eve" on 2018 album Nasir by American rapper Nas.{{r|Bromwich}}{{r|Sodomsky}}

In 1989, Bollywood song "Haa Bhai Haa Mai Hu Jawaan" performed by Anuradha Paudwal and Amit Kumar from the film Toofan directed by Ketan Desai was inspired from Yaghmaei's song "Havar Havar". Pakistani singer Hasan Jahangir had copied to come out with "Hava Hava" in his album "Hava Hava". This song was remade in a Hindi movie Aag Ka Gola as "Aaya Aaya Woh Aaya Yaar Mera Aaya Re" by music composer Bappi Lahiri. This song was also remade in another Hindi movie Billoo Badshah as "Jawan Jawan Ishq Jawan Hai" by music composer Jagjit Singh.

Gol-e Yakh was also featured in "The Rock" episode of the Apple TV+ series Little America, which focused on the immigrant life of an Iranian family living in New York.

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{{cite interview |interviewer=Kyle Avallone |title=Interview with the Godather of Persian rock Kourosh Yaghmaei |url=http://altcitizen.com/interview-with-the-godather-of-persian-rock-kourosh-yaghmaei/ |publisher=Alt Citizen |date=2017 |access-date=5 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215140223/http://altcitizen.com/interview-with-the-godather-of-persian-rock-kourosh-yaghmaei/ |archive-date=15 February 2019 |url-status=live }}

{{cite journal |title=Kourosh Yaghmaei : The Resisting Psychedelic Rock Icon of Iran |journal=Trip Magazine |date=April 2018 |issue=1}}

{{cite web |last1=Ajdamsani |first1=Sahar |title=Kaveh Yaghmaei releases "Backpack" video |url=https://rockrageradio.com/kaveh-yaghmaei-releases-backpack-video/ |publisher=Rock Rage Radio |access-date=16 January 2020 |date=5 June 2019 |archive-date=26 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200826073944/https://rockrageradio.com/kaveh-yaghmaei-releases-backpack-video/ |url-status=dead }}

{{cite news |last1=Hundley |first1=Jessica |title=They rocked in Iran before the revolution |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-aug-21-la-ca-iranian-rock-reissues-20110821-story.html |access-date=9 January 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325093111/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-aug-21-la-ca-iranian-rock-reissues-20110821-story.html |archive-date=25 March 2019 |url-status=live }}

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• {{cite magazine |last1=Keshavarz |first1=Mahdis |date=27 August 2011 |title=6 Questions with Kourosh Yaghmaei |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbr6WdsnLzQC&q=Kourosh+Yaghmaei |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media |volume=123 |issue=23 |issn=0006-2510}}
• {{cite book |year=2014 |last1=Nabavi |first1=Ebrahim |author-link1=Ebrahim Nabavi |title=Basement music |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781909641020 |title-link=Basement music }}
• {{cite book |last1=Breyley |first1=GJ |last2=Fatemi |first2=Sasan |year=2015 |title=Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3r4CgAAQBAJ&q=Kourosh+Yaghmaei&pg=PR9 |edition=illustrated |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317336808 }}

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