Rostam Batmanglij

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Rostam Batmanglij (, ; born November 28, 1983), known mononymously as Rostam, is an American record producer, musician, singer, songwriter, and composer.

He was a founding member of the band Vampire Weekend, whose first three albums he produced.

He has been described by Stereogum as one of the greatest pop and indie-rock producers of his generation.

Rostam also works as a solo artist and is a member of electro-soul group Discovery.

He produced his first number-one album, Vampire Weekend's Contra, when he was 27 years old.

Batmanglij has been nominated for three Grammy Awards: twice for Best Alternative Music Album with Vampire Weekend (winning for Modern Vampires of the City) and once for Album of the Year as producer of Haim's Women in Music Pt. III.

Batmanglij was born to Iranian parents, and grew up in Washington, D.C. His mother is cookbook author Najmieh Batmanglij, while his father is a publisher.

His parents arrived in D.C. in 1983.

His brother is independent filmmaker Zal Batmanglij.

The two have collaborated on multiple projects.

They worked together on the film Sound of My Voice, which Rostam scored and which Zal directed and co-wrote.

Rostam also composed an original piece for piano that was featured in Zal's film The East.

Most recently, Rostam composed the music for both seasons of Zal's television series The OA.

Batmanglij majored in music at Columbia University, where he joined the band Vampire Weekend in 2006.

"At Columbia, I would study classical harmony in classes and I would study music on my own, and I would try to re-create songs that I love in recordings...that was really how I learned."

The name of the group comes from the movie of the same name that bandmate Ezra Koenig and his friends made over summer vacations.

Batmanglij produced their self-titled debut album shortly after graduation while concurrently working multiple full-time jobs.

He also produced the band's follow-up album, Contra, which sold 124,000 copies in its first week and landed atop the Billboard 200 charts.

Batmanglij plays guitar, keyboard and sings in the band but also acts as a lyricist and songwriter, co-writing the song "Diplomat's Son" on Contra.

Koenig has described himself and Batmanglij as "the two main songwriters in the band".

They released their debut album, LP, through XL Recordings on July 7, 2009.

The album features guest vocal contributions from Koenig as well as Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors.

In September 2011, Batmanglij released a solo track called "Wood".

Time Out Chicago's Brent DiCrescenzo gave the song 4 out of 5 stars and wrote that "his voice pleasantly recalls a drowsy David Byrne".

On November 1, 2011, Zane Lowe debuted another a solo song sung by Batmanglij called "Don't Let it Get to You" as the Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1.

The Fader referred to it as "a seismic event of a song".

On March 18, 2013, Vampire Weekend released two songs from their album Modern Vampires of the City, "Diane Young" and "Step".

Within two weeks each song had garnered more than 1 million views on YouTube.

Music for both songs is credited to Batmanglij and Koenig, and lyrics are credited to Koenig.

Modern Vampires of the City is the first Vampire Weekend album Batmanglij did not produce alone; for this record he collaborated with longtime friend Ariel Rechtshaid to co-produce the album together.

It was released May 14, 2013.

In 2015, Batmanglij produced and contributed vocals on the song "Water" for Ra Ra Riot's fourth album, Need Your Light.

On January 26, 2016, Batmanglij announced on Twitter that he had left Vampire Weekend to pursue solo projects, but that he would continue to collaborate with Koenig on future projects and Vampire Weekend songs.

Batmanglij began recording with Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles on a project which was later to become Discovery.

In January 2016, Batmanglij released the song "EOS" along with its music video which he had directed.

On March 11, 2016, Batmanglij released the song "Gravity Don't Pull Me" along with its music video directed by himself and Josh Goleman.

On November 27, 2016, Rostam teased his new solo album, which was to be released in 2017.

In the spring of 2017, Rostam released two songs from the album: "Gwan", released on April 26, and "Bike Dream", released on June 14.

With the release of "Bike Dream", Rostam revealed that his debut solo album would be titled Half-Light and released on September 8, 2017.