Bamshad

Who is Bamshad?

Bamshad was one of the four most famous and skilled musicians who lived in the Persian Sassanid dynasty when Xusro Parviz was in power. 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.