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Born in Abadan, Iran on January 7, 1949 Koorosh Angali received his high school diploma in the Persian literature in 1968 and his first bachelor's degree in Public Relations and Publicity in l972. After finishing the mandatory two years of military training and service and working as a freelance graphic artist and also as an animator for the National Iranian Radio and Television, between 1974 and 1976, he finally migrated to the United States in the fall of l976. He received his second bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Humboldt State University in 1980 (partly through Richard L. Anderson Scholarship) upon which time he moved to Los Angles and worked as an art director and graphic designer. During this period, which lasted about ten years he made a reputable career mostly by designing cassette inserts, album covers, posters and promotional materials for major Iranian companies, singers and artists. In the early days of 1990 he moved to San Francisco Bay Area where he settled first in Berkeley and later in Oakland. Koorosh Angali's work has been shown in many group exhibitions and one man shows including: Alliance of Islamic Arts And Education (Oct.1997), Ovissi Gallery Art Contest (1996, first prize winner), Humboldt State University Annual Juried Show (1980, first prize winner), Simi Valley Annual Art Show (1977, second prize winner), San Jose Lincoln Library (1991-93), San Francisco Whole Life Expo. (1990, 1991), and many other gatherings for the Iranian Artists. His other activities include live performance which started as early as 1968, as a guitar and later a bass guitar player, and recently as both an actor and a reciter of verses. His appearances include: Koorosh has recently reassumed his collaboration with the band Aldoush & The Human Exchange (with whom he released the award winner album The Child Within). In these stage appearances he recites verses by Jalal ad-Din Balkhi (a.k.a Rumi), Sohrab Sepehri, and Koorosh Angali, as well as playing the keyboards, buck up percussions, and singing back up vocals. These performances include February 18 (Club String, Oakland, CA), February 22 (Ashkenaz, Brkeley CA), March 29 (Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA), etc. "Lysistrata 97! Operation No Penetration," (written and directed by Torange Yeghiazarian, Nov. 1997), "The Last Supper Comedy," (written and directed by Farhad Aiish, August, 1997), San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (with Banafsheh Sayyad and Irene Masharo, The Namah Performance Group, June 1997), "Dying, Laughing," (with dancer/choreographer Shinichi Mullin Koga and Uro Teatr Koku [Japanese Butoh Dancers], 1997, several performances). This piece is planned to be documented on film in the month of March, 1999. "The Devil, or The Dagger of Faith," (written and directed by Roham Sheikhani, 1996), "The Three Piglets Opera & Ten Short Stories," (Sheikhani, 1995), Koorosh composed the musical score for "The Three Piglets Opera & Ten Short Stories." He is currently working on several musical projects for X Dot 25 Music Productions Company (for more on this please see below). In the Summer and Fall of 1996 Koorosh had his one-man show on NIMA TV of Northern California, focusing mainly on the poetry of the Iranian younger generation in the United States, addressing the problems of the Iranian youth outside Iran and in a different cultural environment. This show was very successful within Iranian community. He also is professionally involved in the field of poetry. A selection of his poems are published under the title of "The Quest for One's Self." He is often invited to different gatherings by the Iranian community to recite his poetry, as well as verses by both classical and contemporary Persian poets. Besides providing lyrics for several famous Iranian singers such as Sattar, Aldoush, Shahrokh and Jaklin, an album was released by Aldoush and The Human Exchange under the title "The Child Within" for which he wrote all the lyrics. The Album won the San Francisco Weekly Magazine Wammies Award in the World Music category in 1993. The album is available in the major American stores on X Dot 25 label. His most recent released work is the CD titled "Koorosh Angali Recites Rumi, Volume 1," the first of a series of albums on the poetry and philosophy of Mawlana Jelal ad-Din Balkhi (a.k.a. Rumi). In this project, in addition to reciting a selection of Rumi's Poetry from the Divan i Kabir, Koorosh has also composed the music and played the keyboard and is accompanied by innovative performance of the Santur virtuoso Alan Kushan. Currently Koorosh Angali is enrolled in the Iranian Studies program as a graduate student in the department of Near Eastern Studies at the U.C. Berkeley.