Mani Naimi

     Born in Iran in 1980, he moved to Italy at the age of 13. Since then he has lived, studied and worked in Florence. He has a phd in History of Theater from UniFi, and he has worked, all these years as a teacher, interpreter & translator. With regards to his experience as a translator from Persian to Italian, his most important work is “Storia del teatro in Iran” by Bahram Beyzaì (Namayesh dar Iran), translated and published in 2020. As a songwriter he has so far produced one album called “Volume I” (Jelde Yek) in 2010, and two more of his albums should be released by the end of 2021. Among his live performances we can especially remember those which took place in Tehran and Rasht with the Anam Band, made up of fixed elements such as Sina Fathololoumi, Azad Kavian, Arman Kavian, Maryam Bahram and occasional collaborators such as Behrang Babaei and Farid Forghani.