Born in Abadan, Iran on January 7, 1949 Koorosh Angali received his high school diploma in the Persian literature in 1968 and his first bachelor's degree in Public Relations and Publicity in l972. After finishing the mandatory two years of military training and service and working as a freelance graphic artist and also as an animator for the National Iranian Radio and Television, between 1974 and 1976, he finally migrated to the United States in the fall of l976.

He received his second bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Humboldt State University in 1980 (partly through Richard L. Anderson Scholarship) upon which time he moved to Los Angles and worked as an art director and graphic designer. During this period, which lasted about ten years he made a reputable career mostly by designing cassette inserts, album covers, posters and promotional materials for major Iranian companies, singers and artists. In the early days of 1990 he moved to San Francisco Bay Area where he settled first in Berkeley and later in Oakland.

Koorosh Angali's works have been shown in many group exhibitions and one man shows including:

Ovissi Gallery Art Contest (1996, first prize winner),

Humboldt State University Annual Juried Show (1980, first prize winner),

Simi Valley Annual Art Show (1977, second prize winner),

San Jose Lincoln Library (1991-93),

San Francisco Whole Life Expo. (1990, 1991),

and many other gatherings for the Iranian Artists.

His other activities include live performance which started as early as 1968, as a guitar and later a bass guitar player, and recently as both an actor and a reciter of verses. His appearances include:

"The Three Piglets Opera & Ten Short Stories" (written and directed by Roham Sheikhani, 1995),

"The Devil, or The Dagger of Faith" (Sheikhani, 1996),

San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (with Banafsheh Sayyad and Irene Masharo, The Namah Performance Group, 1997),

and "Dying, Laughing" (with dancer/choreographer Shinichi Mullin Koga and Uro Teatr Koku [Japanese Butoh Dancers], 1997, several performances).

"The Last Supper Comedy," (written and directed by Farhad Aiish, August, 1997).

Koorosh composed the musical score for "The Three Piglets Opera & Ten Short Stories." He is currently working on several musical projects for X Dot 25 Music Productions Company. One of these projects is a selection of Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Balkhi, a.k.a. Rumi's odes for which, in addition to reciting the verses, he has composed and produced the music and played the keyboards, accomponied by innovative performance of the Santur virtuoso Allan Kushan.

In the Summer and Fall of 1996 Koorosh had his one-man show on NIMA TV of Northern California, focusing mainly on the poetry of the Iranian younger generation in the United States, addressing the problems of the Iranian youth outside Iran and in a different cultural environment. This show was very successful amongst Iranian community.

He also is professionally involved in the field of poetry. A selection of his poems are published under the title of "The Quest for One's Self." He is often invited to different gatherings by the Iranian community to recite his poetry, as well as verses by both classical and contemporary Persian poets.

Besides providing lyrics for several famous Iranian singers such as Sattar, Aldoush, Shahrokh and Jaklin, an album was released by Aldoush and The Human Exchange under the title "The Child Within" for which he wrote all the lyrics. The Album won the San Francisco Weekly Magazine Wammies Award in the World Music category in 1993. The album is available in the major American stores on X Dot 25 label.

Currently Koorosh Angali is enrolled in the Iranian Studies program at U.C. Berkeley.