Behnam Safavi


Sayyid Behnam Safavi was an Iranian singer, composer and music arranger.
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Personal life

Safavi was born on 6 July 1983 in Shiraz. He had an older and a younger sister. Two weeks after his birth the family moved to Bandar-e Mahshahr, where they stayed until he was 16. He pursued a master's degree in civil engineering at the Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, after which he moved to Tehran where he lived until 2018. In 2012, he married Hoda Khademi with whom he had a son.

Career

Safavi started learning music at a young age by teaching himself piano. He then learned working with percussion instruments. His first official release was the album Eshghe Man Bash in 2009. He had started working on the studio album after receiving positive feedback on his single "Tamanna". Safavi was considered one of the young stars of Iranian pop music, known by titles such as "Sultan of Peace" and "Polite Boy of Iranian Music".

Illness and death

In 2013, Safavi was diagnosed with a brain tumor and underwent surgery on 20 July 2015. His condition improved afterwards and he released a studio album titled Mojezeh In 2017 his condition deteriorated and he went to Germany for further treatments. He underwent surgery by Majid Samii at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hanover before returning to Iran. His treatment continued between 2017 and 2018 until he became critically ill on 26 December 2018, after which he was hospitalized for 43 days at a hospital in Tehran. He then moved to Isfahan for a more agreeable climate but was hospitalized again on 16 April 2019. He died 27 days later on 13 May 2019 and later buried at a cemetery in Shahinshahr.
The death of another pop singer, Morteza Pashaei, became an unprecedented social phenomenon in Iranian society, forcing the media and sociologists to analyze and investigate the cause of this issue, but this did not happen after Safavi's demise. The Iranian Students' News Agency wrote in an article titled Why Behnam Safavi Did Not Become Morteza Pashaei: "Both are pop singers. Both are popular. Both fall ill at once and pass away a few years apart; but the death of the first becomes a phenomenon and the other does not. Why?!"