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Azad
Azad in a Live Tour Berlin.
Background information
Birth name	Azad Azadpour
Born	January 1, 1974 (1974-01-01) (age 33) Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
Origin	Frankfurt, Germany
Genre(s)	German hip hop
Years active	1988 - present
Label(s)	Bozz Music
Associated acts	Asiatic Warriors
Website	www.azad.de

Azad Azadpour (born January 1, 1974 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran), better known as Azad, is a rapper. He came from the Kurdish part of Iran as the child of a Kurdish family of refugees and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany. In hip hop culture, he found his home since it was a common part of life in the area he grew up. He became a member of multicultural, radical rappers Asiatic Warriors, who used to rap in English, but also Kurdish and German. Azad is his given name and means free or Freedom.^{[citation needed]} After the crew disbanded, Azad focused on his solo career and his crew Warheit and became the first German hardcore rapper to be successful in the German charts.^[1] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Kurdistan. ... Amirieh Park located in Mount Awyer has the widest Open Space Cinema screen in the world. ... Map showing Iranian province of Kurdistan. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The term German hip hop denotes hip hop music produced in Germany. ... See also: other events of 1988 Musical groups established in 1988 Record labels established in 1988 list of years in music 1980s in music // Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Asiatic Warriors were a multilingual hardcore rap crew from Frankfurt, Germany. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Amirieh Park located in Mount Awyer has the widest Open Space Cinema screen in the world. ... Map showing Iranian province of Kurdistan. ... The term German hip hop denotes hip hop music produced in Germany. ... For other uses, see Kurdistan (disambiguation). ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Hip hop is a subculture, which is said to have begun with the work of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaattaa. ... Asiatic Warriors were a multilingual hardcore rap crew from Frankfurt, Germany. ... Turkish (, ) is a language spoken by 65–73 million people worldwide, predominantly in Turkey, with smaller communities of speakers in Cyprus, Greece and Eastern Europe, as well as by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly Germany, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. ...

In 2007 Azad recorded the hip-hop collaboration song "Prison Break Anthem (Ich glaub an dich)" with German singer Adel Tawil. The song debuted at #3 on the German Singles Charts and managed to reach #1 in its fourth week, making it Azad's highest-charting single to date and the first hip-hop song by a German artist to reach number one on the German Singles Charts since 1995's "Sie ist weg" by hip-hop formation Die Fantastischen Vier. It serves as the opening theme for Prison Break's first season which is currently airing Thursdays on German television channel RTL. Template:Media Control Charts The Media Control Charts are the official music charts in Germany. ... Bold textDie Fantastischen Vier also known as Fanta4 is a German hip hop group from Stuttgart. ... Prison Break is an American serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on August 29, 2005. ... // This is an episode list for the drama/thriller television series Prison Break. ... RTL (formerly RTL plus) is a large German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in larger population centers. ...

Discography

Albums

• 1994 - Asiatic Warriors – Told Ya
• 2001 - Leben ("Life")
• 2003 - Faust des NordWestens ("Fist of the North-West")
• 2003 - Warheit ("Truth" – deliberately written the wrong way)
• 2003 - Bozz-Music Volume One
• 2004 - Der Bozz ("The Bozz")
• 2005 - One(with Kool Savas)
• 2006 - Game Over
• 2006 - Der Bozz Remix ("The Bozz Remix")
• 2007 - Betonklassik (as part of the hip-hop formation Warheit) ("Concrete Classic")

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Singles

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External links

• Azad's homepage (German, needs Macromedia Flash)