Amir Tataloo
AmirHossein Maghsoudloo (Persian: امیرحسین مقصودلو; born 21 September 1987), known professionally as Amir Tataloo (Persian: امیر تتلو), is an Iranian-Azerbaijani singer, rapper, songwriter. He is one of Iran’s most famous and controversial artists for his full body tattoo and his frequent open dialogue toward politics and social aspects of Iran's younger generations. He is part of the first generation of the Iranian underground hip hop scene and also one of the first R&B singers in Persian. He is currently in Iran and under arrest for criticizing the Iranian government's human rights record in his songs and on social media.
His debut album, Zire Hamkaf, was released in 2011. Since then, he has released 21 albums. In 2021, Amir Tataloo released the album Fereshteh by Universal Music Group. He is the first Iranian to collaborate with Universal Music Group.
Tataloo was arrested several times when living in Iran by the Islamic Republic authorities in 2016 and 2018 and spent months in prison. In 2018, he moved to Turkey and continued and further established his successful career creating albums and big concerts in Turkey that otherwise were not allowed in Iran until 2023. Frustrated from living in exile, and after the expiry of his Iranian passport, he tried to leave Turkey to return to Tehran. In 2023, Turkish authorities first rejected his departure from Istanbul airport with an expired Iranian passport and later arrested him and handed over Tataloo to the Islamic Republic's police where he was immediately arrested with pending serious charges.
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