Arsi Nami

Arsalan Nami (Persian: ارسلان نامی‎‎) (born May 21, 1984 in Shiraz) better known as Arsi Nami, is a Persian-Swedish singer, songwriter, music therapist, actor and philanthropist living in Los Angeles, California. Credits include music on Fox TV show Bones (TV series) and Cannes Film Festival movie Crown Prince of Heaven. His acting credits include featured actor for Samsung TV Commercial, modeling for Guitar Center commercial print, Carriere Menswear wearing Canali, acting for Los Defensores and SoCal Gas Company. According to MTV.com, he is listed as one of the few award winning multilingual Pop Singers and Music Therapist outside of Iran. He is also known to be the first Iranian to introduce Music Therapy to the Iranian population, where music is used to help increase quality of life for individuals with psychological and physical deficits

His breakthrough came when he participated on Sikta Mot Stjärnorna (Aiming at the Stars), a national talent show program televised on TV4 (Sweden). organized by FremantleMedia (American Idol). After two auditions where 3000 participated, he became one of the 45 to enter the show singing "Hero" (from Enrique Iglesias) live on national television, and winning the second place award.