Watch Ed Sheeran embrace Persian traditions and Farsi in behind-the-scenes Azizam video

Behind the scenes of Ed Sheeran's Azizam music videoEd Sheeran

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00:00I think I stumbled into the studio by accident with you we were sort of

00:11exploring with different sort of sounds and he is Persian and said we should

00:15make a Persian tune and so we started making it

00:30I said can we use a Persian word in this and he said yep the language is Farsi

00:36he started telling me about Farsi I said well what does like love in Farsi or my

00:40darling or something like that and he said well it's as he's instantly hearing

00:43that word I was like that's a really cool word

00:48and I said to Ilya like what would you do as a music video and he said like the

01:01best way to showcase my culture would be a wedding

01:08it's it's huge parties and a lot of love and dancing and food and all these

01:21ingredients very different to an Irish way the Persian weddings are really a good

01:31crash course into all Persian things really fast lots of stuff being said

01:36four conversations happening kind of people are listening kind of not

01:58okay let's go