Iranian Kurdish prominent artist and singer, writer and poet Abbas Kamandi passed away early morning on Thursday in a hospital in his birthplace Sanandaj, northwest of Iran.


Has suffered a heart stroke and died at the early hours of the day in Tawhid hospital.

Born in 1952, Kamandi started writing when he was 16. The playwright worked for more than two decades in Sanandaj Broadcasting. He has sung songs with the Kamkars, one of the worldly-known Kurdish music groups.

He was also a great painter and his last exhibition was in Sulaymaniya, northern Iraq.