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When Googoosh stepped onstage at the Hollywood Bowl on a recent Saturday night, the crowd went wild. Everyone leapt to their feet. Many people cried. A live performance by the pop singer is incredibly rare, despite her worldwide fame.
As a Persian woman, she was banned from singing in public in her home country after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. More than 20 years passed before a more tolerant Iranian government allowed her to travel abroad to sing again.
The Los Angeles-based Farhang Foundation sponsored the Bowl show. Farhang’s executive director, Alireza Ardekani, said: “Imagine Beyonce today and suddenly there’s a revolution and she can no longer perform. Or Madonna or any of the top stars. It just must be a horrific thing to go through as an artist. So I have so much respect for her and what she’s been through and how she’s persevered all these years.”
Ardekani proudly added that Googoosh made history as the first Iranian woman to headline at the Bowl.
The pop diva, who is now in her late 60s, lives part time in the U.S. when sh
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Googoosh
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Googoosh (alternately spelled Gogosh, Googosh or Gougoush; Persian: گوگوش, born Faegheh Atashin, Persian: فائقه آتشین , born May 5, 1950 in Tehran) is an Iranian pop singer and actress.
Googoosh's first husband was Mahmoud Ghorbani. He was a music promoter who had helped Googoosh make a name for herself throughout the 60s. They married in 1968. They had a son, Kambiz, who currently lives in Los Angeles and who is also in the music industry. In 1973, Ghorbani and Googoosh divorced.
In 1974, Googoosh married the famous Iranian actor, Behrouz Vossoughi. However, this was a very unsuccessful marriage. They divorced 14 months later.
During the late 70s, Googoosh became involved with Homayoun Mestaghi, but after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Googoosh served a 3 month jail sentence because she was living with him outside of marriage, which was illegal under the Islamic Regime. Several years later, Googoosh divorced Mestaghi.
In the 1970s, Googoosh was considered the most celebrated recording artist in
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“She was actually a messenger in Iran and all the countries around Iran,” says Hossein Omoumi, a scholar of classical Persian music and professor of Persian Performing Arts of music at the University of California, Irvine, of Googoosh’s immense popularity in Iran, its neighboring countries and beyond. Googoosh’s fiercely independent and brave spirit – both as a unique musician and as a woman dominating the music industry – was not lost in translation for many of these countries and their respective homesick peoples, which left others outside of the region curious and subsequently equally enthralled by the singer’s words and performances.
Despite its general classification as pop, Googoosh’s music has been revered by many, ranging from scholars and critics like Omoumi to classical singers such as the Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, who received the distinguished title of “Usted,” given to masters of Persian traditional music in the greater Middle East.
“Shajarian – very famous, the best classical singer of Iran – told me [that] when he went to Uzbekistan, they asked him about Googoosh.
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