Shervin Hajipour

Shervin Hajipour built Baraye from other people's words: tweets by Iranians naming their reasons, each one beginning with baraye, for. He filmed it in one room with a still camera and let the words carry it. Within two days it had passed forty million views on Instagram; then he was detained and made to take it down. In 2023 it received the first Grammy ever given for Best Song for Social Change.