Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani

Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani is a musician, composer, performer and award-winning director of the Young Women’s Music Project. She is based in Oxford where she was born and raised as a second-generation immigrant, her father having emigrated to the UK from Iran and her mother being Irish. Thoughts on identity run as an undercurrent through her creative process as she connects the different cultures she embodies. Zahra has also toured drumming for acts such as Lafawndah, Young Knives, and a residency with Stealing Sheep. She performed Atigheh on the BBC Introducing stage at Latitude, before taking the EP on tour across the UK and then onto supporting Islet on their album tour.