Name: Sayid Ali
Father's name: Sayyid Nizamaddin
Surname: Kurdistani

$Biography$
His name is Sayyid Ali son of Sayyid Nizamaddin son of Sayyid Jami. He was born in the year 1882 in the village of Salwat near the city of Sina in East Kurdistan to a prominent and religious family.
He was educated in the mosque as a child and learned to read from the teacher Abdul Mo'mini Mardokh and several other teachers in Sina. He gained expertise in religious subjects.
At the same time, he showed his talent as a singer and became one of the most popular singers in Sanaa on religious occasions.
Sayid Ali Asghari Kurdistani lived as a Sufi and did not care about worldly possessions.
He spent most of his time worshiping God and reading Kurdish literature.
He got married in the year 1905 and established close ties with the nobility and celebrities of Sina and its surroundings.
After the end of World War I, he tried to record original Kurdish songs on vinyl and recorded more than fourteen songs for companies of that time. Sayid Ali Asghar is the brilliant artist who preserved the original Kurdish maqams and turned the poetry of Kurdish poets into songs.
He received the Naqshbandi Tariqat from Sheikh Ali Hasamuddin and three of the four times he visited South Kurdistan, he visited Biara.
The last visit of this great artist to South Kurdistan was in the year 1935. He went to Baghdad via Qasr Shirin and met Sheikh Mahmoud there. On his return he stayed in Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah for a while.
He died on 06-08-1936 at the age of 54 and was buried in his village. [1]