Kaveh Deylami was born in 1940 in Rasht. After graduating from high school in Tabriz he went to England to study financial management and marketing.
He began to work in England and in 1975 returned to Iran and then felt deeply interested in music. He started to take tar lessons from Hushang Zarif and then went to study Persian art of singing with Ostad Q. Banan, the renowned singer. Deylami began his career in a performance of Yad-e Yar-e Mehraban (Cherishing the memory of the benevolent friend) based on a collection of verses with the same title by F. Moshiri and couducted by the composer, Farhad Fakhreddini. His second major work is his contribution in the album Mey-e Nab (i.e. pure wine) that is a collection of arrangements Golnush Khaleqi made after the works of her father, Ruhollah Khaleqi who is a well-known composer. Deylami's last work is also a composition by Fakhreddini on poems of Nezami Ganjavi.
In 1990 he gave several concerts with Hoseyn Alizadeh and the Ensemble of National Instruments in the United States and Europe. It proved to be a fruitful experience for him. These successful concerts were followed by a single concert in Vienna, in which Hushang Zarif undertook the leadership of the ensemble. ...