Seyyed khalil ali nejad biography
Seyed Khalil Alinezhad was a great master of the spiritual instrument tanbur, recognized as one of the best tanbur players ever known.!
Seyed Khalil Alinezhad
Musical artist
Seyed Khalil Alinezhad (alternative spelling: Seyyed Khalil Alinejad; Kurdish: سەید خەلیل عالینژاد, born 1958, Sahneh, Kermanshah province, Iran – 2001, Gothenburg, Sweden) was a great master of the spiritual instrument tanbur, recognized as one of the best tanbur players ever known.
Biography
Seyed Khalil was born in a Kurdish family in a Sahneh County village in the Kermanshah Province, in western Iran. He started his tanbur lessons with Seyed Nader Taheri and followed his studies under supervisions of Seyed Amrollah Shah Ebrahimi, Dervish Amir Hayati, and Master Abedin Khademi.
Seyed Khalil Alinejad, about, age 44, nationality: Iran, civil status: single case, date of killing: November 18, , location of killing: Gothenburg, Sweden.
He finished his academic studies in the 1970s from University of Tehran with a thesis titled "Tanbur – from the very beginning till now" (تنبور از دیر باز تا کنون).
During his lifetime he became known as a spiritual leader of the mystic religion Ahl-e Haqq (People of truth), a religious tradition related to Sufism, Shia Islam, and Alevi traditions.
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