Born in 1974 in Tehran, Iran, Peyman Nasehpour comes from a family of musicians: his father is the famous vocalist Nasrollah Nasehpour and his grandfather was an Azeri-garmon player Agha Shakour. He learned Persian drumming at the early age of nine and broadened his drumming knowledge by working on Azeri dayereh (ghaval), Kurdish daf and Indian tabla.
