- Source: Yousif Hadi Bastaki
Yousif Hadi Bastaki (Persian: یوسف هادی بستکی), born Yusuf Hadi Najjar (Persian: یوسف هادی نجار) (1937-2000 in Bahrain), was a Bahraini a Laristani/Achomi singer of Bastaki origins.
Biography
Yusuf Hadi Najjar was born in 1937 in Bahrain, and he was originally from a Bastaki family but residing in Bahrain, and he learned music and playing the oud instrument with his masters and friends.
He started singing at a young age.
His great interest in Bastak, his father's homeland, caused him to love the Bastaki language very much and wrotepoems and songs in the original Bastaki dialect.
Yusuf Hadi wrote poems in Bastaki, Evazi, and Janahi as well as in Arabic, and by composing authentic southern songs, he left behind several art albums.
Yousef Hadi died at the age of sixty-three in October 2000 in Bastak.
Works
Baran
Fulani
Shah Khoban
Fataneh
Del Jani
Nowroz Fasl Bahar
Naz Nakon