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4 unusual facts about Paul Caldani


Paul Caldani

A copy of this album is currently used as music reference at Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, under the direction of Prof. Wolfhart Heinrichs.

Later, impressed by the music and he developed an intensive fascination with Iranian folk music, specifically Kurdish dance and Kurdish music.

Caldani's research focused on accelerating his music background through holistic and dynamic understanding of Iranian folk music and also Assyro-Chaldean church hymns.

In 1958, an Iranian TV children's program invited him to perform live Kurdish dance on TV where he performed Kurdish dance and playing the Tonbak and Daf until his late teens.



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