PanteA Alvandipour, vocalist, was born in Tehran, Iran, 1975. When she was only three, her mother understood that she
had a good voice for singing.
At the age of seven she started learning
Santoor (Persian hammered dulcimer) with Saeed Sabet for 1.5 years. But at the age of thirteen she went to the class of Lotfali Seylani for learning vocal music
and then at the age of seventeen she started learning the radif repertoire of Persian vocal music (Ostad Davami's school)
with the
maestro Nasrollah Nasehpoor. According to his master's advice she has been working on the glorious style of the late Ostad Ghamar-al-Molouk Vaziri (the
very famous and skillful vocalist) for 8 years.
For learning Persian rhythms she went to the
tonbak class of Saeed Roudbari and for learning
daf (Kurdish frame drum) she went to the class of Mehrdad Karim Khavari.
Pany is also a professional sportswoman and she is instructor and referees of the Kiyo-Ko-Shin style of karate.
