Ali Pahlavan () (born 1 May 1975) is an Iranian–Australian musician, singer-songwriter, lyricist and composer. He started his professional music career in 1999 by establishing the first Iranian mixed gender pop band, Arian (). The band subsequently achieved nationwide success in the 2000s. Arian band has released 6 albums, sold more than 5 million records and performed more than 400 concerts world-wide. Their fifth album, titled Goodbye, was released in March 2015. They announced that this will be their last album. Ali continued with his solo music career. Personal life Ali Pahlavan was born on 1 May 1975, thirteen years before his younger brother, in Tehran, Iran. Although Pahlavan's primary instrument was the Daf (), a traditional musical instrument from Iran, he decided to continue his musical life with the Guitar. He started learning guitar from Vafa Faraji when he was 17. He studied Industrial Engineering in university and in addition to his music career, works as a project management consultant. Ali immigrated to Australia and became an Australian citizen. With the Arian band (1998–2015) Ali and Payam Salehi, the other vocalist of Arian decided to create the first Iranian mixed gender pop band and have a concert together. This decision resulted a concert in Qeshm island one year later in 1998. This concert was the biggest leap for the group, where they met a producer who asked them to create an album, and things went bigger than they expected. Pahlavan and other members of Arian published 6 albums: Gol-e-Aftabgardoon (Sunflower) – 2000 – Sold more than 1.7 million official copies in Iran Va Amma Eshgh (And but Love... ) – 2001 – Sold more than 2.5 million official copies in Iran Taa Binahayat (Till Eternity) – 2003 – Nominated for BBC3 World Music Award Bi To Ba To (Without You With You) – 2008 – Featuring Chris de Burgh Tak Ahangha – Single Tracks – 2011 Khodahafez (Goodbye) – 2015 Being on top of the charts in Iran, Arian decided to go beyond the borders and hold concerts worldwide. They traveled to Canada, Europe, USA and some Asian countries and performed a lot of successful concerts world wide. At one point the band sold more than 54,000 tickets for one of their concerts in less than six hours. Touring Europe, they met Chris De Burgh and produced a Persian-English version of his song "The Words I Love You". Ali