# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hossein-tehrani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:19:25.593Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hossein-tehrani"
name: "Hossein Tehrani"
slug: "hossein-tehrani"
description: "Hossein Tehrāni was an Iranian musician and tonbak player. He is regarded as an innovator, expanding the modern tonbak into an instrument that can be played solo, in addition to its earlier role as an accompaniment instrument. Tehrāni added to the instrument's possibilities with added \"beating methods\" and played his instrument with different \"sonorities\"."
tagline: "Iranian musician (1912–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hossein-Tehrani-master-tombak-Persian-percussion-instrument.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1912"
deathDate: "1974-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.2
  momentum:             10.58252427184466
  historical:           8.765013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2619654"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B7%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "حسين طهراني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "هوسين تيهرانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Tehrani"
    title: "Hossein Tehrani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Tehr%C4%81ni"
    title: "Hossein Tehrāni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Tehrani"
    title: "Hossein Tehrani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "حسین تهرانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Tehrani"
    title: "Hossein Tehrani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%98%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ホセイン・テヘラーニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c27e2b4a-c9ee-44eb-ae45-dc60a1b5f66b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3141009"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump