Career
He started his professional music career in 1999 by establishing the first Iranian popular band, Arian (Persian: گروه آریان). Their second album has the record of best selling popular album in the history of popular music in Iran. Arian Band has released 5 albums, sold more than 5 million records and performed in more than 400 concerts world-wide.
Their fifth album, titled Goodbye, was released in March 2015.
They announced that this will be their last album. Ali will continue with his solo music career.
The album was released in 2000 and it was so successful that they decided to continue this way and start working on another album, which was released in 2001 named And but love and was the best-seller album of the year. Till eternity was the name of their third album which was released in 2004 and was also the best seller album of the year.
Being on top of the charts in Iran, Arian decided to distribute its name over the borders and hold concerts world wide.
They traveled to Canada, Europe, United States of America and some Asian countries and had many successful concerts world wide. At one point the band sold more than 54,000 tickets to one of their concerts in less than six hours. Touring Europe, they met Chris De Burgh and produced a Persian-English version of his song The Words I Love You.
They released their fourth album, Without you, With you in the year 2008 which included the song with Chris De Burgh.
Pahlavan became more responsible when Ninef Amirkhas, Arranger and Keyboard player of the group left Arian to continue his studies. Now he has the responsibility to arrange the songs as well.
On September 2014, Ali announced that he is planning to continue his career as a solo artist. He released his first single entitled "Silent Memories" right after that.
