Azam Ali (Persian: اعظم علی) is an Iranian musician. As of 2013, she has released eight full-length albums with the bands VAS and Niyaz, as well as four solo albums.
In 1996, Ali formed "alternative world" group VAS with percussionist Greg Ellis after meeting the year prior at a concert at UCLA.[1] She and her husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, are part of another group, Niyaz, an Iranian acoustic electronic group.[3][4]
In 2006, Ali was featured on Nefes/Breath, an album by Turkish ney player and DJ Mercan Dede, singing the song "Dem."
Solo career
In 2002, Ali released her first solo album, Portals of Grace.[6] This was followed in 2006 by Elysium for the Brave, which reached No. 10 on Billboard's World Albums chart on 23 September 2006.[7] Ali's third album, From Night to the Edge of Day (2011), is a collection of lullabies inspired by her son.[8]Lamentation of Swans – A Journey Towards Silence (2013), Ali's fourth album, is a joint effort with her husband Loga Ramin Torkian that began in 2009 and explores the intimate spaces they had to carve out for themselves to escape the demands of touring.
In September 2013, Ali announced that she would provide vocals for the soundtrack of the film Thor: The Dark World.[11]
On 31 May 2019, Ali announced her next album, the self-produced PHANTOMS, along with its first single and music video, "Hope."[12] The next single was the album's self-titled track, "Phantoms," which was released on 12 July.[13] The album was released on 13 September 2019.
