Rostam Batmanglij

About Rostam Batmanglij

Who is it?: Musician
Birth Day: November 28, 1983
Birth Place: Washington, D.C., United States, United States
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Birth name: Rostam Batmanglij
Origin: Washington, D.C., United States
Genres: Art pop indie rock indie electronic
Occupation(s): Musician songwriter record producer
Instruments: Piano keyboards organ vocals guitars bass guitar programming flute banjo drums percussion
Labels: XL
Associated acts: Vampire Weekend Discovery Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam Charli XCX Carly Rae Jepsen Solange Declan McKenna Boys Like Us
Website: officialrostam.com

Rostam Batmanglij Net Worth

Rostam Batmanglij was born on November 28, 1983 in Washington, D.C., United States, United States, is Musician. Rostam Batmanglij is an American songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his association with the indie rock electronic recording project named Discovery. He first gained popularity for his work with the indie rock band Vampire Weekend which helped to establish him as an upcoming talent in the indie rock genre. The brother of filmmaker Zal Batmanglij, Rostam began making electronic music at the age of 14. A major in music from Columbia University, he plays keyboards, percussion, and guitar. In his decade long career with Vampire Weekend, he produced the band’s debut album, ‘Vampire Weekend’, and the second album ‘Contra’, and co-producedthe album ‘Modern Vampires of the City’; all the three albums were critically and commercially successful. His fans admired his skills in reshaping pop music with elements of West African guitar blended with unusual polyrhythms and joyful melodies. After the band earned significant recognition, he branched out and formed the recording project Discovery with his friend Wesley Miles. As a solo artiste he recorded the tracks ‘Wood’, ‘Don't Let It Get to You’, ‘EOS’ and ‘Gravity Don’t Pull Me’ which earned critical acclaim. As a producer, he is quite in demand, and has worked extensively with artistes like Frank Ocean, Carly Rae Jepsen, Hamilton Leithauser, Charli XCX, and Santigold.
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💰Rostam Batmanglij Net worth: $400,000

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Biography/Timeline

1983

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 collaborated 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.

2006

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."

2009

Batmanglij began recording with Ra Ra Riot's vocalist Wes Miles on a project which was later to become Discovery. They released their debut album LP on July 7, 2009 on XL Recordings. The album features guest vocal contributions from Koenig as well as Dirty Projectors' Angel Deradoorian.

2010

In 2010, Converse released "All Summer", written by Batmanglij and featured Kid Cudi and Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast.

2011

In September 2011, Batmanglij released a solo track called "Wood". Timeout 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 Radio1. The Fader referred to it as "a seismic event of a song." 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 Batmanglij and Josh Goleman. The video was filmed at The 1896 and features Dancers Jack Grabow and Sam Asa Pratt.

2013

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 and the two co-produced the album together. It was released May 14, 2013.

2014

Batmanglij produced and co-wrote two songs for The Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser's solo album, Black Hours, which was released in June 2014. Also in 2014, Batmanglij produced two songs for singer Charli XCX. The song "Need Ur Luv" appears on her album Sucker and the song "Kingdom" featuring Simon Le Bon appears on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. In December 2014, Batmanglij along with Diplo and Ed Droste remixed Ty Dolla Sign's "Stand For" into a new song titled "Long Way Home". Batmanglij also wrote original music for a play by Kenneth Lonergan called This Is Our Youth, starring Kieran Culkin, Michael Cera, and Tavi Gevinson, which premiered on Broadway in 2014.

2015

Batmanglij is openly gay and talked about his sexual orientation in the magazine Out. In an Instagram post in 2015, he said that Ed Droste of the band Grizzly Bear influenced his decision to publicly come out.

2016

In 2016, he formed Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam with Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen. They released the single "A 1000 Times" in July 2016, which they performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on September 12, 2016. Their song "In a Black Out" was featured in a commercial for the Apple iPhone 7. Their debut album, I Had a Dream That You Were Mine was released on September 23, 2016.

2017

Batmanglij produced and co-wrote the song "Listen to Your Friends" from English singer Declan McKenna's debut album What Do You Think About the Car?, which was released in July 2017.