Since his Internet hit, “Bad Shans” (hard luck), Hamid Saeid has become one of the best-known Iranian musicians with African roots. He’s traveled by motorbike across the province of Hormozgan, which is situated in the South of the country on the Persian Gulf, in order to realize his dream; to organize a concert with the best black musicians in the country. The documentary Dingomaro – Iran’s Black South by Kamran Heidari is a testimony of this trip.
Listen to Hamid Saeid performing Bad Shans (Hard luck):
To my ear, the leitmotiv sounds definitely like the French expression “pas de chance”, i.e. “no luck!”.