Masoud Kakei

Masoud Kakei (also spelled Kakeh-i in the channel’s captions) is a tanbur player and maqam singer from Kirkuk in Iraq. According to the channel “Navaye Tanbur”, he learned the haqqani (sacred) maqams of the tanbur without a teacher or any lessons, only by listening devotedly to recordings of the masters of Guran and Sahneh.

Since January 2025 the channel has posted his audio and video recordings, among them the maqams Baba Taheri, Baba Naousi, Tala Savaran, Pishrovi Pardivari, Pishrovi Delfan, Cheltan Chelaneh and Seyed Khamushi.

Source: Telegram channel “Navaye Tanbur”, January 2025 to September 2026.