Yousif Hadi Bastaki

Yousif Hadi Bastaki (Persian: یوسف هادی بستکی),^[1] born Yusuf Hadi Najjar (Persian: یوسف هادی نجار, 1937-2000) in Bahrain,^[2] was a Bahraini citizen of Bastaki Iranian Achomi ancestry,^[1][2] who sang in Achomi, Persian and Arabic.

Yousif Hadi Bastaki
يوسف هادي بستكي
Born	Yousif Hadi Najjar 1937 Bahrain
Died	October 2000 Bastak
Occupation	Musician

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.^[2]

He started singing at a young age.^[2]

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.^[2]

Yusuf Hadi wrote poems in Bastaki, Evazi, and Janahi Achomi Persian dialects as well as in Arabic, and by composing authentic southern songs, he left behind several art albums.^[2]

Yousef Hadi died at the age of sixty-three in October 2000 in Bastak.^[2]

Works

• Baran
• Fulani
• Shah Khoban
• Fataneh
• Del Jani
• Nowroz Fasl Bahar
• Naz Akon
• Esho Golom Shabarin^[3]
• Ay Gol Golzaren Enen^[4]
• Esta Peling Sartaresh^[5]