Roshanak Rafani was born in Tehran in 1994 and began his musical education at the age of 8 on the Persian frame drum Daf. Later she added other Persian percussion instruments such as Dayere and Tombak. In addition to music theory lessons, she began learning classical percussion instruments in Tehran. Since 2018, she has been studying classical percussion with Dominic Oelze at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. She has performed as a percussionist with various music groups and as a soloist in Iran, Armenia and Germany.