A distinguished Bajoran musician in the episode Sanctuary whom Kira Nerys arranges to perform in Quark's bar, to the annoyance of a host who wants livelier customers.
Varani is a Bajoran musician seen at the start of the second-season episode Sanctuary. Once a celebrated performer, he lost his livelihood under the Cardassian occupation, and Kira Nerys has talked Quark into engaging him to play in the bar on Deep Space 9.
His gentle playing holds the room so well that people stop drinking and gambling, and Quark complains that his takings have collapsed and presses for something faster. Kira defends the old man and tries to find him better things.
Varani tells her of his hope that the Jalanda Forum, a great concert venue wrecked during the occupation, might be rebuilt as a sign of Bajor's cultural recovery. His music is also what first draws the newly arrived Skrreean Haneek, one of the earliest points of sympathy between her and Kira.