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Input (English): Context: Azam Ali is an Iranian American singer and musician. As of 2013, Ali has released eight full-length albums with the bands VAS and Niyaz, as well as four full-length solo albums., Niyaz is an Iranian Canadian musical duo. The group was created in 2004 by DJ, programmer/producer and remixer Carmen Rizzo, vocalist and hammered dulcimer player Azam Ali, formerly of the group Vas, and Ali's husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, of the Iranian crossover group Axiom Of Choice. In 2013, Carmen Rizzo announced via Facebook that he was retiring from Niyaz. "Niyaz" means "yearning" in Persian, Urdu and Turkish., Vas was an alternative world musical group composed of Persian vocalist Azam Ali and American percussionist Greg Ellis . Vas is frequently compared to the Australian band Dead Can Dance . The band released four full - length albums , and both artists have released a few solo albums and participated in side projects . After the group 's last album , Feast of Silence , Ali and Ellis went their own separate ways . Azam Ali was born in Iran and moved to Los Angeles , California , in 1985 , where she began studying the dulcimer - like santur under the guidance of Manoochehr Sadeghi . Greg Ellis was born and raised in Los Gatos , California , where he first learned to play the drums at age twelve . Ellis moved to Los Angeles in 1984 and started work as a percussionist . The two musicians met at UCLA in 1995 after hearing each other perform ; they formed Vas shortly thereafter ., Brendan Michael Perry (born 30 June 1959 in Whitechapel, London) is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the male half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard., Lisa Gerrard (born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry., Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia. The name "Melbourne" refers to an urban agglomeration spanning which comprises the broader metropolitan area, as well as being the common name for its city centre. The metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. Melbourne consists of 31 municipalities. It has a population of 4,529,500 , and its inhabitants are called Melburnians., Ian McFarlane (born 1959) is an Australian music journalist, music historian and author, whose best known publication is the "Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop" (1999). As a journalist he started in 1984 with "Juke", a rock music newspaper. During the early 1990s he worked for Roadrunner Records while he published a music guide, "The Australian New Music Record Guide Volume 1: 19761980" (1992). He followed with two fanzines, "Freedom Train" and "Prehistoric Sounds", both issued during 1994 to 1996. McFarlane's "The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop" is described by the "Australian Music Guide" as "the most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards". Subsequently, he was a writer for "The Australian" and worked for Raven Records, a reissue specialist label, preparing compilations, writing liner notes and providing research. He fulfilled a similar role at Aztec Music from 2004 to March 2012. From July 2013 he has been a contributor to "Addicted to Noise", writing a column., Dead Can Dance is an Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London, England, in May 1982. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras and art rock.", Subject: vas , Relation: inception, Options: (A) 1 (B) 12 (C) 1959 (D) 1961 (E) 1976 (F) 1980 (G) 1981 (H) 1984 (I) 1996 (J) 2004 (K) 2013 (L) 30 (M) 4 (N) 500 (O) march 2012 (P) may 1982
Output (English): 1996