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A brief history

Shervin Hajipour (Persian: شروین حاجی‌پور; born 30 March 1997) is an Iranian singer known for his song Baraye, which has been described as "the anthem" of the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests. He was arrested shortly after publishing the song.

Biography

Hajipour studied economy at the University of Mazandaran. He took up music at the age of eight when he entered a violin class and graduated from several musical classes later. When in secondary school, he started to compose professionally. When at university, he was composing music for theater performances and editing. Only later he began to sing himself.

At the age of 22 Hajipour participated in the New Era TV music competition, where he advanced to the finals of the second round of its first season, Later, the artistic director of the program announced that Iran Broadcasting was worried that he would cause trouble later.

Arrest

Hajipour was arrested during the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran after publishing his song to commemorate the Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini who died due to police brutality. The video of his song "Baraye..." (Persian: برای, For...; Because of...) in which he used protest tweets with the word Baraye..., was seen more than 40 million times in less than two days on his Instagram page only. The main theme of the song is support of women with the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom". He was forced to delete the song due to the pressure of government officials.

Reactions to arrest

Roger Waters wrote in a tweet inspired by a line from the song "Another Brick in the Wall" (1979) by Pink Floyd: "Hey Ayatollah, leave the children alone!"

Murat Boz published the video of the song "For..." by Shervin on his Instagram page and wrote in the caption: "It is said that Shervin was arrested for writing a song about the freedom of the people of Iran. unbelievable. "I hope that nothing bad will happen to my colleague during his detention and that he will be released immediately."

Mohammad Esfahani the singer of pop and traditional music mentioned Shervin on his Instagram as his friend whom he met in the New Age competitions and said, "Shervin was an incredibly talented, innocent, shy and emotional young man."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shervin_Hajipour

Lyrics English translation: For the Sake of ...

For the sake of dancing in the street

For the fear in the moment of kissing

For my sister, your sister, our sisters

For changing the eroded brains

For the shame, For the pennilessness

For the yearning for a normal life

For the sake of the poor child that searches in the garbage and their dreams

For this command economy

For this polluted air For Vali-'asr1and the withered trees

For Piruz and his probable extinction

For the forbidden innocent dogs

For the non-stop crying

For the image of repetition of this moment

For a laughing face For the students,

For the future

For this mandatory paradise

For the imprisoned intellects

For the Afghan children

For all of this,

For the lack of repetition

For all this hollow chants

For the collapse of the chaffy houses

For the feeling of peace and tranquillity

For the sun after long nights

For the mental illness' pills and insomnia

For men, fatherland, prosperity

For the sake of the girl that wished she was a boy

For women, life, freedom

For freedom

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