Ebrahim Hamedi (born: June 20, 1969 in Tehran)
As a teenager, he discovered his talent for reading by reading the Qur'an in the school classroom. "He came to Iran when he was four or five years old, but we did not have enough money to buy a radio," he said in an interview when asked how he started singing. While electricity had not yet reached everywhere.

I listened to music and I loved it. My hobby was reading at home, and I have said many times that I used to recite the Qur'an in the morning from the third grade of elementary school. Well, this is a kind of singing in itself. At the age of ten or eleven, there were radio and singers, and all I could think about was singing, apart from studying. "I read at home for my classmates as well as for the kids in the neighborhood."