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Lache Cercel, Romanian’s leading musician, recognized prodigy and virtuoso call him “King Nader”. His name “Nader” (Na der), means very rare and valuable in his mother tongue!
Nader Khaledi is a Canadian music composer, producer and talented multi-instrumental artist. He is originally from Iran where he started playing different instruments from the age of 5 and mastered the Persian traditional percussion called Tonbak.
He followed his passion for Flamenco music in Seville, Spain when he was 23 and he entered the “Cristina Heeren Fundación de Arte Flamenco”, where the heart of flamenco musical culture is rooted. Nader developed himself as a proficient guitarist and found his everlasting passion for the arts after discovering the magical strings of ‘Paco de Lucia’ in his masterpiece ‘Entre dos Aguas’. He worked with mentors and top musicians such as Nino De Pura, Pedro Sierra, Paco Cortes and Eduardo Rebollar in Spain.
His dreams and love for Jazz landed him in Vancouver, Canada where he shared stage for performances with the best Jazz musicians as a solo flamenco guitarist and fusion music composer.
Nader’s music is healing, brings peace and joy. It is where the West meets the East and gets united as a contemporary piece of art, enlightening everyone in these challenging times.
Uplifting and inspiring, Nader creates fusion music skillfully as his signature. Weaving multi instruments like guitar, piano, rhythmical instrument and percussions such as Cajon, Tonbak or Daf; a delicate mix of Jazz, Flamenco, Latin and Middle Eastern styles, that is truly unique and original stemming from his deep understanding of multi-cultural roots. The boundaries of different cultures and their music melt away as he has lived in different countries around the world.
Today, based in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Nader is regarded by some of the most prominent Canadian musicians as a modern forward thinking and revolutionary artist, mostly as the result of his composing abilities, teaching techniques and performance capabilities at various venues.
Music composing / documentary score projects
Nader has skillfully arranged and sound engineered his composed music for documentaries across the globe. “It is hard for me to stay grounded, as the music of the whole orchestra is playing in my head”, Nader explains…
• Knowledge on the steel string (2019)
• Under an Enamel Dome (2018)
• The story of our city (2017)
• Zayandeh river (2016)
• Life is not blind (2016)
• In the depths of square (2013)
• Under an Enamel Dome (2018)
• The story of our city (2017)
• Zayandeh river (2016)
• Life is not blind (2016)
• In the depths of square (2013)
Vision
He also continues to teach students and mentor new emerging fusion artists/musicians/composers privately or in music institutes and universities, collaborate with the movie industry and more artists from different cultures around the world.
As an accomplished and well-respected musician and composer, Nader would like to continue to deepen his knowledge of fusion music and keep the trio pieces of “Canadian ingenuity”, “Iranian mastery”, and “Spanish dignity” together. Also, he vigorously continues his quest for originality and musical genius wherever music flows rich and masters of great music share their gifts with the world.
He believes that having different styles of music together as a whole is important specially when acoustic music and percussions are involved. This international fusion music harmonizes the mind and help people with positive and spiritual energy. Furthermore, Nader thinks human beings are able to learn different music genres and play different instruments. Therefore, he is determined to reach a vast knowledge of the different styles of music and creates various albums of music with the collaboration of the best local musicians and from around the world.
He wishes at the end that his music can be heard around the world and on the best movies globally so it can remain as an inspiration of human capabilities for the next generation for years to come.
