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For Iranian art connoisseurs who listen to and study music professionally, and for Iranians who happen to listen to random tracks from time to time, the name of Mohammad Reza Shajarian resonates with the craft of vocalization and singing.Born in 1940 in the pilgrimage city of Mashhad, Shajarian began learning Koran recitation from his father when he was five. At the age of 12, he started studying the melodic corpus of Persian classical music, locally referred to as radif, and at the same time was learning to play the santur, a dulcimer of Mesopotamian origin.