Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi (1922-2015)  *93

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was an Iranian poet and lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Persian traditional music. Master Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was born in 1926 in Kermanshah, Iran. He left his hometown at a young age for Tehran to pursue painting, among his famous paintings is the charcoal of Christ blessing the children. His talent and creativity in poetry made him one of the greatest lyricists, poets and historians of Iran. His masterpiece is an Eighteen volume history of Iran after Islam in the form of beautiful Persian classical poetry called Shahkar, which contains over 200,000 lines of poetry in about 7800 pages.[citation needed] In 2007 he was honored as Lord of Speech by the National Organization of Iranian poets, musicians, artists, historians, philosophers and literature masters.[citation needed] During his 60 years dedication to Persian literature and poetry he published over 20 books and wrote the lyrics of about 500 songs. His musical works are being remastered every year by various artists in different countries, mostly in Iran and the United States. In 2013, one of his songs "Ecstacy" was played on Fox production's TV series "How I met your mother".

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