Mansoor first learned guitar in 1998 and wrote his first song in 1999 (‘Sarzamin’-The Country) in the Menu album. Previous to that he greatly appreciated a variety of music including reggae, rock, latin, and off course good old Iranian music, specially by Viguen Derderian and many others. He started to play guitar and chart Iranian classic songs from the 60’s and 70’s. He met Anne Brace who sang variety of Spanish music and through her introduced to Luigi Ibarra who is a professional latin bass player. Mansoor mainly worked as an software engineer and hold a BS and MS degree in electrical engineering.