Bamshad
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Bamshad (in Persian: بامشاد) was one of the four most famous and skilled musicians (with Barbad, Nagisa (Nakisa), and Ramtin) who lived in the Persian Sassanid dynasty when Xusro Parviz was in power (591-628). His name comes from his practice of playing music at dawn every day: "bam" and "shad" translate as "dawn" and "happiness".
The Persian lexicons, for example Dehḵodā's Loḡat-nāma, describe him as a well-known musician equal to Barbad. He is also mentioned in a poem by the Persian poet Manūčehrī.[1]
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- Tafazoli, A. (1989). "Bāmšād". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 3. london: Routledge & Kegan Paul. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bamsad-a-musician-at-the-court-of-the-sasanian-king-kosrow-ii-parvez-a.
