Aref was born on August 15, 1941, in Tehran, the capital of Iran. He graduated from Tehran Industrial School of Art in 19….
Before starting his career as a singer, Aref  worked as a teacher in Qhazvin industrial school of art for two years, but the truth is that he has been singing since he was only 12 years old.

Aref  attended in an orchestra band along with two other people to perform for the “Community Support for Mothers and Children”. The band also took part in graduation parties for the Industrial School of Art along with other celebrities to performing in those events. Because of his outstanding performance he had been selected and invited to take part in one of  the most important events named “Culture Forum” in which the selected students across the country had been gathered to perform.
Having an effective and unique performance in that event had led him towards the first steps of his career as a professional singer.

His official career as a professional started with Radio and TV commercials. He then started his cooperative performance as a host along with Mrs……..in a TV show named “neghab e siyah” ” The Black mask”. He also took part in another TV show starring with Mr.Ali Tabesh, ”Rangin kaman “. “Rainbow” was the name of this show which was very famous at its time. Both TV shows were running from the “Pasal” TV channel which was a private company.

Aref was invited to the radio by Mrs.Pooran and started his job there as a singer with other great stars including: Mr.Homayoun Shahrdar, Khaledi, Badiee, ZyaeMokhtary, and other great celebrities. Performing  some live  music which were outstanding made him become one of the greatest celebrities and the conductor for Pop Orchestra on the radio. Among the great celebrities of that era were also Mr.Vigen and Mohamad Noury. It is good to consider the point that in that time radio was in a higher and more important place than television. As a conductor of Pop Orchestra on the radio he had performed numerous songs that amount up to around 200 songs. He also performed so many other songs in one of the most popular radio shows “shoma va radio”

Aref also featured in many performances with “Pouran“, “Hayedeh“, “Googoosh“, “Ramesh“, “Ahdiyeh“, “Delkash” and “Elahe” in which every single one of them were from the most famous and popular celebrities.
He also lip-synced several songs that are performed by many famous movie stars such a