Ziba Shirazi set herself and her dreams free when she left Iran and moved
to Los Angeles in 1986. She longed to be free to write poignant lyrics;
she yearned to sing and compose without being hindered by suffocating cultural
intolerance. Ziba is from the ancient land called Persia and the language
and the culture of that 5000 year old civilization are, as she says," In
every cell of my body". The wondrous, troubling, miraculous thing is that
jazz, literature and social equality are also within her molecules. The
result is music that is not a blending of two ways of life but a true synthesis,
something greater and more artistically moving than the sum of its parts.
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