Afra Massawisadeh

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Afra mussawisadeh

Afra mussawisadeh was born in 1973 in Iran / Teheran and started playing the zarb which is the classical Iranian percussion instrument at the age of 6.

He had lessons from the masters arjang kamkar and farhangfar. After moving to germany in 1983 he started playing the piano before finding his way back to percussion with the age of 16. Living in a multicultural european society he started to learn about the drums of various cultures. After taking lessons in west african and indian drumming in germany and studing latin music in rotterdam he started to travel to countries like cuba and india to learn more about the cultures.

He visitid the music high school of santiago de cuba and the karnataka college of percussion in bangalore india.

During his high school time in rotterdam he allready started to tour with various bands from holland and germany through the whole world and he works constantly on developing his own style and sound which incorporates all the cultural influences he experienced and studied.

At Open Up festival he will perform with Praful and Kareem Raihani in the band Red Fulka.