Compiled & Written by Moneer Cherie* The earliest Assyrian Gramophone (shellac) records in Middle East were released in Iraq, this was during the time when international record companies were working and producing records for different nationalities and in different languages. The two main companies were the British “His Master’s Voice” and The American “Columbia” Labels, […]

Compiled and Written by Moneer Cherie  – Moderator at Qeenatha.com This is an introduction to Evin Agassi’s earliest known single records, starting from his Farsi records to early Assyrian records, According to the information that I gathered, Evin Agassi begun singing in Farsi as early as 1959 in his birth place, the city of Kermanshah […]

I wrote this article in Arabic which was published on Ankawa.com but I also wrote it in English for the non-Arabic readers (below): http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php?topic=821506.0 Next year Modern Assyrian music will celebrate the 100 years of its birth.A century of Assyrian music, a journey that included the good and the ugly, and not having our own […]