Xatar Red Carpet Style Facts and Career

Xatar is known for memorable red-carpet style and standout fashion moments. Here's a sourced look at Xatar's most iconic looks, career and background.

Giwar Hajabi (Kurdish: ژیوار حاجبی, romanized: Jîwar Hacibî, Central Kurdish pronunciation: ['ʒiwɑːɾ ħɑː'dʒəbiː]; 24 December 1981 – 7 May 2025), better known by his stage name Xatar, was an Iranian Kurdish-German rapper and businessman. He was the founder and owner of the labels Alles oder Nix Records, Kopfticker Records, Groove Attack TraX and Goldmann Entertainment. He studied Music Business at the London Metropolitan University.

== Career ==

=== Youth === Xatar was born Giwar Hajabi to Kurdish parents in 1981 in Sanandaj, Iran. His father is the music professor Eghbal Hajabi. In the early 1980s, his parents fled with him to nearby Iraq. At this time, the first Gulf War broke out between the two Middle Eastern states. After Saddam Hussein's regime attacked the Kurdish minority in Iraq, his parents were also tortured and imprisoned. He himself was held prisoner for three months near Baghdad.

=== Musical and entrepreneurial career ===

==== Beginnings as a rapper and founding of Alles oder Nix Records ====

At the end of the 1990s, Hajabi began using the pseudonym Xatar, the Kurdish (Sorani) term for "danger", to rap and produce beats in the recording room of a youth center. In 2007 he founded...

Quick facts about Xatar

• Name: Xatar
• Known for: Giwar Hajabi, better known by his stage name Xatar, was an Iranian Kurdish-German rapper…
• Category: best red carpet looks
• Wikidata ID: Q565419

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