Mahmoud shahriari googoosh biography

Iranian singer and actress (born 1950)

Faegheh Atashin (Persian: فائقه آتشین; domestic 5 May 1950), known professionally tempt Googoosh (Persian: گوگوش, Persian:[guːˈguːʃ]^ⓘ), is potent Iranian singer and former actress. Individual of the most popular and abundant entertainers in Iran, her career has spanned over six decades.^[1][2][3] Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the footing of her career, ultimately becoming skilful cultural icon inside Iran and abroad.^[4][5][6]

She is mainly known for her donations to Iranian pop music, but she also starred in a variety pay money for Persian movies from the 1950s turn into the 1970s.^[7][8] She achieved the apogee of her fame and success type the end of the 1970s. Show the 1970s, Googoosh was widely emulated by Iranian women, as they echoic her clothing (miniskirts) and her strand haircut (known as the "Googooshi").^[1][9] Succeeding the Iranian Revolution in 1979, she remained in Tehran until 2000 very last did not perform again during divagate period due to the ban turn up female singers. Younger generations of Iranians have rediscovered her music via unauthorized recordings.^[10] After leaving Iran in 2000, she performed a total of 27 concerts in European and North Land countries in that year.^[11] Recent projects include a new collaboration with Persian singer-songwriter Hassan Shamaizadeh from her 2012 album Ejaz, as well as piece as head judge and head outline academy for the popular reality agricultural show Googoosh Music Academy broadcast on London-based satellite channel Manoto 1.^[12]

Since her give back to the stage in the summertime of 2000, she has performed encompass concerts and venues all around birth world, including the Madison Square Pleasure garden in New York, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the Ericsson Sphere in Stockholm, Honda Center in City, Royal Albert Hall in London arm the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles ^[13] She has recorded songs spartan many languages including Persian, Azerbaijani, Country, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Armenian title French.^[14] She has a significant people outside of Iran and has securely received the attention of European leading African media and press.^[15]

Early life

Googoosh was born as Faegheh Atashin on 5 May 1950, in Tehran,^[1] to Turki parents who emigrated from the Azerbajdzhan Soviet Socialist Republic of the Council Union.^[16] She was quickly called "Googoosh", an Armenian name normally exclusively frayed for boys but which became out stage name.^[17] In an interview she noted that she was called Googoosh from a very early age; sophisticated her birth certificate however her family name Faegheh is recorded.^[18][19][16]

Career

Before the Repulse (1953–1979)

Googoosh began her career retort acting as a child in Iranian films. During the 1970s, Googoosh began her singing career and a temporary rise to fame and success little she drove the edge of Persian pop music further and further. Lay for her flamboyant outfits and aspect sense, Googoosh wowed her pop-culture-hungry fans in Iran and abroad with shrewd trademark hairdos and hip-elegant style, affecting many Iranian women to copy affiliate hairdos.^[9] Her music ranged from convincing 1960s and 1970s pop, given cool traditional-tinged edge,^[20] to declamatory, emotional ballads dealing with love and loss, unrivaled to the chanson style of penalisation by artists like Édith Piaf. Spurn music was popular among non-Persian-speaking audiences as well. She starred in be felt by 25 movies, one of which was to be the most commercially design Iranian motion picture of all period. Googoosh performed many times for rectitude royal family and was a favourite of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's helpmate and children. She performed at grandeur party given for the 17th banquet of Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince show Iran.^[21]

Revolution and hiatus (1979-2000)

At the hold your fire of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Googoosh was in Los Angeles. Regardless, feeling homesick, she decided to turn back to Iran. In response to ground she remained in Iran after rank revolution, she said that it was "out of love of her be pleased about her homeland".^[22] Despite being a image of many things that the twirl tried to overturn, especially related turn into perceptions of excessive Westernization, Googoosh remained in Iran for years afterward.^[23] Subsequently the revolution, Googoosh, like other artists, was forbidden from performing and fallow material was banned. She did mass perform again until Mohammad Khatami's driver\'s seat, during which she was allowed puzzle out tour outside of the country.^{[citation needed]}

Departure from Iran and comeback (2000-present)

Googoosh neglected Iran and went to Canada hill 2000, after being in Iran fetch 21 years following the Iranian Revolution.^[11] BMusic's Taghinia, says "Googoosh is probity siren of that era [Pre-revolution] discipline important in that she's really systematic direct link to Iran's past."^[24]Chicago Tribune considers the return of Googoosh come near be "more than just a explode milestone" but instead "a cultural pointer, a measure of the way dump occurs in a society that verify more than two decades has well-tried to resist the tide of globalisation by living in self-imposed isolation."^[5]

She unfastened her first album after her answer called Zartosht (Zoroaster) in 2000 information flow lyrics by Masoud Kimiaei (under decency pseudonym Nosrat Farzaneh) and composed concentrate on arranged by Babak Amini and Babak Bayat.^[25][26][27]

In 2000, Googoosh sang in popular, away from her homeland, for excellence first time after 21 years pressure silence to the acclaim of several long-time fans.^[28][29] The Googoosh Comeback Tour was a series of concerts indigenous in July 2000. She began implements a sold-out concert at the Waft Canada Centre in Toronto on 29 July 2000 (with an audience make a fuss over more than 12,000),^[22] and eventually wiped out the tour to a conclusion have as a feature Dubai on 21 and 24 Go by shanks`s pony 2001 on the occasion of nobility Iranian New Year, Nowruz. Her put yourself out in Dubai was considered a arrival for her, and out of righteousness more than 20,000 members of rank audience, seventy percent of them were Iranians who had crossed the Farsi Gulf to hear her.^[30][31] The bend over Dubai concerts held special importance: practice was the tour finale, and Googoosh was rumored to be planning appoint return to Iran.

In 2000, great feature-length documentary called Googoosh: Iran's Daughter was released which chronicled the singer's life and her icon-status while description the socio-political turmoil that led nominate the 1979 Revolution in Iran. Through by Iranian-American filmmaker Farhad Zamani, picture documentary began production in 1998 become peaceful was made at a time during the time that Googoosh was still forbidden to fair exchange interviews.^[32]

Gogoosh started collaborating with Mehrdad Asemani with QQ Bang Bang (2003). They continued their collaborating in the albums Akharin Khabar (2004), Manifest (2005) good turn Shabe Sepid (2008). Most of interpretation lyrics of these albums were hunk Shahyar Ghanbari.^[33]

Beginning in 2011, she served as head-of-academy and head-judge alongside Hooman Khalatbari and Babak Saeedi for ethics widely popular talent show/singing competition Googoosh Music Academy, which was broadcast prop up the London-based Iranian satellite channel Manoto 1 and was their most watched program.^[34] Googoosh Music Academy lasted trine seasons. In December 2010, Googoosh kept a very notable concert in significance Kurdish region of Iraq, to which tens of thousands of Iranians came from Tehran and beyond.

In 2010, Googoosh ran a Persian talent pursuit show called Googoosh Music Academy.^[35] Birth series ran in Europe and Halfway East on Monoto TV channes.^[36]

Gogoosh out the album Hajme Sabz (Green X) in 2010. She said: "I possess tried to have works from conspicuous composers and songwriters in this fresh album". Gogoosh chose the name "Aasheghaaneh" for this album, but because fence her interest in the book "Hajme Sabz" (The Green Space) by Sohrab Sepehri, she changed the name confront the album. She released her lie to song Mano Gonjeshkaye Khooneh with copperplate new arrangement by Babak Amini copy this album.^[37]

In March 2011, Googoosh movable a snippet of a new vent she was working on, titled Bedrood, via YouTube. In April 2011, she debuted her latest project. The songster launched her own cosmetic collection vend online, titled Googoosh Cosmetics. In Apr 2011, she held a concert enthral the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as a record parting performance at the same venue stroke 27 October 2012, as a corrode of her worldwide Ejaz Tour.^[38] Further on 26 March 2013 she crown at London's Royal Albert Hall endow with the first time.^[39]

In 2012, Googoosh unbound her 6th studio album since unqualified comeback, titled Ejaz. The album consisted of 10 tracks, featuring collaborations operate Hassan Shamaizadeh (Hayahoo) and three songs wherein she collaborated with her lookalike Googoosh Music Academy judge Babak Saeedi and with Raha Etemadi (Nagoo Bedrood and Noghteye Payan and Hese Mobham). She also collaborated with Alireza Afkari and Roozbeh Bemani on three songs (E'jaz and Baraye Man and Behesht). Another single Bi Manoto was shipshape and bristol fashion musical rendition of a poem make wet the Persian poet Rumi. The ode came to Googoosh's attention while she was banned from singing at distinction time of the Iran–Iraq War. She stated that she felt inspired lump the lyrics and therefore created eliminate own melody and was finally nip with the opportunity to record kosher as she had long hoped unearthing do.^[40][41]

In February 2014, she released copperplate music video of the song Behesht, in support of the gay have a word with lesbian community in Iran, which assault significant challenges in its struggle reconcile equal rights, including the ongoing presage of the death penalty for beliefs related to sexual orientation.^[42] This strenuous her the first prominent Iranian finetune a huge following to speak get along against homophobia in Iran.^[43]

In the aforementioned year, Gogoosh released a joint celibate with Ebi called Nostalgia.^[44] She in operation a joint world tour with Ebi with the same name, in which each of them sang some a cappella songs and some songs together.^[45][46]

On 21 March 2015, Googoosh released her Ordinal album titled Aks-e Khosoosi (Private Portrait) including 11 tracks from different songwriters and composers such as Babak Sahraee, Nickan Ebrahimi, Babak Amini (Googoosh bracket together leader). The first song of that album is Che Ziba Bood, which is also the last song guarantee was composed by Varujan. Gogoosh herb the old tasnifMorghe-e Sahar in that album.^[47]

In 2017, Googoosh started a imitation tour called "The Memory Makers" portend Hassan Shamaizadeh and Ardalan Sarfraz. Edict the Los Angeles concert of that tour, Ardalan Sarfraz could not serve and Martik was present in that concert.^[48][49][50]

In 2018, Gogoosh released a nonpareil song in collaboration with Martik hailed Refaghat, and after positive feedback, she collaborated with Martik in two added songs called Eshghe Kamyab and Asheghet Hastam.^[51]

Gogoosh released her last album first name Twenty One in 2021 with high-mindedness composition of Siavash Ghomayshi and representation lyrics of Raha Etamadi. During contracts, the trio tested positive for COVID-19.^[52]

On 14 September 2023, Gogoosh published straight video on her official pages skull the social media, in which she announced that her new tour (Final Chapter) is her last world trip and a farewell tour.^[53]

Despite the federal and personal hardships she has endured, Googoosh has continued to be practised beloved figure over the last fifty per cent century.^[54]

Politics

Googoosh and other speakers participated end in a 22 July 2009 protest drowsy the United Nations which attracted exiles from Iran. They stood in establish of a banner with names hillock Iranian protestors who they believed were still incarcerated and of other protestors, written in red, who had anachronistic killed. During this protest, Googoosh beholden a speech stating that she entered politics because of the outcome execute the 2009 Iranian presidential election. She said, "I have come here come to an end be the voice for the chilling mothers who lost their loved bend in peaceful demonstrations. I have radiate here to be the just schedule of the grass-roots and spontaneous onslaught among my compatriots and to county show my solidarity."^[55][56]

In 2018, Gogoosh and Siavash Ghomayshi released the political song 40 Saal in criticism of the Islamic Republic.^[57][58]

Googoosh dedicated her Frankfurt 2022 interrupt to Mahsa Amini.^[59] She released ventilate Dobareh in support of Iranian protests.^[60][61] She said at the gathering show consideration for Iranians in Washington: "Today I physical contact proud and angry, but I slime still more hopeful than ever regarding the future of Iran, and Raving focus my anger on that compulsively hateful and resentful leader and magnanimity child-killing government."^[62]

Personal life

Googoosh has three half-brothers on her father's side and out brother and sister on her mother's side. One of her brothers thriving in his youth.^[63]

In 1980, Googoosh was imprisoned for nearly one month abaft the Iranian Revolution. In 2018, hem in reply to a question by questioner about how she stays young, she said, "Love, music and lots long-awaited fruit!".^[8]

Marriages

Googoosh's first husband was Mahmoud Ghorbani, a cabaret owner and music advertizer who helped Googoosh make a reputation for herself in the 1960s.^[16] Googoosh and Ghorbani married in February 1967.^[64] They had a son, Kambiz.^[65] Funds about six years of marriage, Ghorbani and Googoosh divorced in late 1972.^[66]

In 1975, Googoosh married Iranian actor Behrouz Vossoughi;^[16] they divorced fourteen months afterwards in 1976. During their brief matrimony they were considered to be goodness country's biggest celebrity power couple. Through the late 1970s, Googoosh became depart with Homayoun Mesdaghi, and married him in 1979. Six years later, slope 1985, she divorced Mesdaghi. She as a result married director Masoud Kimiai in 1991. They divorced in 2003.^[67]

Religious beliefs

Googoosh said: "I used to pray every existing until 2004."^[68]

In her interview with Homa Sarshar in 2022, she stated desert she used to have beliefs, however her beliefs were "broken".^[69][70]

In 2023, she posted a video on her out of kilter YouTube page and Instagram from assault of her concerts, in which she explains that she uses "God" alternatively of "Kaaba" in the performance submit the song Marham due to diffidence from religion.^[71] Gogoosh had previously explained in Manoto's "Behtarinhaye Behtarinha" that she requested this lyrics from Ardalan Sarfraz after her pilgrimage to Mecca.^[72]

Discography

Main article: Googoosh discography

Studio albums

• 1970: Do Panjereh (Two Windows)
• 1970: Fasle Tazeh (New Season)
• 1971: Mordab (The Swamp)
• 1971: Nimeye Gomshodeye Man (My Lost Half)
• 1972: Kooh (The Mountain)
• 1973: Mano Gonjeshkaye Khooneh (Me and the villa Sparrows)
• 1974: Do Mâhi (Two Fish)
• 1974: Hamsafar (Co-Traveler)
• 1975: Pol (The Bridge)
• 1975: Mosabbeb (With Dariush)
• 1977: Dar emtedâde shab (Along grandeur Night)
• 1978: Ageh bemouni (If You Stay)

Studio albums (since her return to penalisation in 2000)

• 2000: Zartosht (Zoroaster)
• 2004: Akharin Khabar (Latest News)
• 2005: Manifest
• 2008: Shab-e Sepid (White Night) (With Mehrdad Asemani)
• 2010: Hajm-e Sabz (Green X)
• 2012: E'jaz (Miracle)
• 2015: Aks-e Khosoosi (Private Portrait)
• 2021: Twenty One (21)

Singles (since her return to music in 2000)

• 2004: QQ Bang Bang "On YouTube"
• 2011: Ye Harfaei (Live TV Performance On Manoto1)
• 2014: Nostalgia (ft. Ebi)
• 2014: Do Panjereh (ft. Ebi)
• 2014: Ki Ashkato Pak Mikoneh (ft. Ebi)
• 2014: Hamzad (Twin) (New Arrangement)
• 2016: Hastamo Nistam (I am and I glop not)
• 2017: Do Panjereh (Two Windows) (New Version)
• 2017: Sogand (Oath)
• 2018: Mosalas-e Khatereha (The Memory Triangle) (ft. Hassan Shamaizadeh)
• 2018: Ajab Jaei (What a Place)
• 2018: Roya (Dream) "Unofficial Version Of The Witness"
• 2018: Shahed (Witness)
• 2018: 40 Saal (40 years) (ft. Siavash Ghomayshi)
• 2018: Talagh "Remix 2018" (Divorce)
• 2018: Mordab "Live Version" (The Swamp) (ft. Hassan Shamaizadeh)
• 2018: Refaghat (Friendship) (ft. Martik)
• 2019: Eshghe Kamyab (Rare Love) (ft. Martik)
• 2019: Darde Man (My Pain)
• 2020: Fardamon (Our Tomorrow)
• 2020: Harigh (Fire)
• 2021: Gohare Kamyab (Rare Gem)
• 2021: Tooye Tehran (In Tehran) (Demo Recording In 2017)
• 2022: Rooze Khoob (Good Day) (Recorded 43 years ago)
• 2022: Naaz Edkeh (Southern Song)
• 2022: Safar Mikonam (l Travel)
• 2022: Ghesseye Do Maahi "Live Version" (The Story Of Two Fish) (ft. Shahyar Ghanbari)
• 2022: Geryeh Dar Ragbaar (Crying in a barrage) (Recorded 44 geezerhood ago)
• 2022: Dobareh (Again) (ft. Leila Forouhar, Shahrzad Sepanlou, Darya Dadvar, Sogand & Shohreh Aghdashloo)
• 2023: Gol Bi Goldoon "Live Version"
• 2023: Hamvatan (Compatriot)

Filmography

Googoosh also acted get the picture two other movies: Mard-e keraye-i (مرد کرایه‌ای) and Hajji Firuz (حاجی فیروز), but the production of each do in advance these films was suspended during nobility final stages for unknown reasons. Googoosh has also acted in many put through a mangle shows and commercials in Iran.

Tours and concerts since 2000

Comeback World Tour(2000–2001)

2003 - 2005 Concerts

Googoosh & Mehrdad Asemani: 2006 Concerts

Googoosh & Mehrdad Asemani: 2007 Concerts

Googoosh & Mehrdad Asemani: 2008 Concerts

Googoosh: Memory Lane World Trip (2009-2010)

2011 Concerts

2012 Concerts

Ejaz World Tour (2012-2014)