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The picture taken on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Hamid is practicing singing while holding the Gaval, a medium-sized frame drum with jingles, used to accompany both popular and classical music, in front of his face. His friend Ilia, 7, is looking at him while sitting at a singing class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014. Daniz Sadri, 7, is holding Gaval in her hands and listening to a song while sitting at the singing class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. Ilia and Hamid are singing and practicing last week singing lessons at their singing class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Hamid is sitting at the door while singing a song for his father’s aunt.
Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, Sep. 12, 2014. Hamid is siting between his friend and grandmother and singing a song to the guests who have come from Mako. Family members usually enjoy Hamid’s singing. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, May 31, 2015. Hamid and his classmates are sitting at the singing class and are raising hands to take a turn to sing. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. Ramin Ghaznavi is Hamid’s teacher who is singing and teaching his class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. Hamid has closed his eyes and listening carefully to his teacher while he is singing. Danis is also sitting next to her mother. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, April 12, 2015. Hamid and his classmate Daniz are coming down the stairs after finishing singing class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, April 5, 2015.Hamid is playing Daniz’s piano listening to the sound of it by pushing the keys. Daniz has started learning to play the piano since age 4 and started singing since age 6. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, April 5, 2015. Daniz Sadri is playing Gaval and singing and dancing. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Monday, April 13, 2015. Adel Mamipour is playing Tar and practicing with his son Ilia. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. Ramin Ghaznavi is listening to his students singing while standing in the middle of the class. Parents normally are sitting in the class with their children. The children attend the singing classes once a week for two to three hours and practice their singing lessons. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, April 19, 2015. Hamid who hasn’t done very well because he hasn’t practiced enough. He is crying and his teacher is patting him gently. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Saturday, April 4, 2015. The children’s are talking with their fathers. The fathers are encouraging their children to practice more. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Hamid is lying down at home while playing Gaval and practice singing at his home. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. Hamid’ mother is helping him to wear his traditional singing costume at home. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. While carrying his traditional singing costume Hamid is walking to the concert hall. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Hamid and his other classmates are getting ready for their performance at a room behind the concert hall. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. The children are practicing with their master and music group for one last time before the performance starts. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, May 29, 2016. Helen, 8, a singer, being trained in traditional Azerbaijani singing, is standing in the outer space of concert hall among some women wearing Hijab while waiting for the concert to begin. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, May 29, 2016. The children who are going to give a performance at the concert are passing by a banner of the Founder of Islam Republic of Iran Imam Khomeini and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and the quotes of them about the eight-year-old Iran Iraq war. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. The children singing group are staging a performance at the concert hall. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Sunday, May 29, 2016. The children are lying down after putting on their performance in the park. Hamid is talking to Helen. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Hamid and Ilia are standing on from of the musicians at Roshan Music academy practicing for an upcoming concert. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Ilia and Hamid are sitting next to the violinist while listening to the conductor at Roshan Music academy. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Hamid and Ilia are imitating a musician who is playing a Tar at their singing class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Monday, April 13, 2015. Hamid is picking up Ilia’s father’s Tar while Ilia is targeting Hamid with his toy gun. Hamid goes to Ilai’s house to practice singing together. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, June 3, 2016. Hamid is holding a small toy guitar and pretending to play it for his cousin Mahdi, while sitting at the doorway. He is very fond on playing a musical instrument. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hamid is holding an organ smiling happily at the camera. His father has bought him an organ for his piano training classes as he could not afford to buy him a real piano for the time being. Hamid uses an organ for his introduction classes. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Hamid is sitting next to his piano master Behrooz Barzegar learning to play the piano at his piano class. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, May 5, 2017. Hamid is standing among his classmates at Barzegar Music Academy who are posing for a photo for a concert poster. Photos of the world renowned musicians are hanging on the wall of music academy. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, May 12, 2017. Hamid is playing a classical music piece at the workshop concert at the Barzegar Music Academy.Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
The picture taken on Friday, May 12, 2017. Hamid is taking some rest after giving his performance sitting under the photos of the world renowned musicians. Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust.
Childhood's Voice
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Ali Hamed Haghdoust
Northwest of Iran - Tabriz., 2014 until 2017. Children are the most important way of transferring cultural, artistic and social heritage from one generation to another. Many children start learning language, literature, and music since childhood which play a key part in construction of their identities. My son Hamid has started to learn traditional Azarbaijani singing style since he was 8 years old in Tabriz. Along with other children he is learning mugham singing style, literature, and folklore music of the Azarbaijan to help safeguard the region culture and art. Hamid who is now 11 will soon hit puberty and due to the changes his vocal cord is going through he is not singing for the time being. Instead he is learning to play the piano that is one of the classic instruments of music in the world. He wants to transfer sense of his voice to his fingers above the black and white keys of piano.
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