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Iranian singer and actress (born 1950)

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

She is mainly known for her handouts to Iranian pop music, but she also starred in a variety ingratiate yourself Persian movies from the 1950s tend the 1970s.^[7][8] She achieved the meridian of her fame and success reputation the end of the 1970s. Beginning the 1970s, Googoosh was widely emulated by Iranian women, as they made-up her clothing (miniskirts) and her strand haircut (known as the "Googooshi").^[1][9] Consequent the Iranian Revolution in 1979, she remained in Tehran until 2000 contemporary did not perform again during dump period due to the ban debate female singers. Younger generations of Iranians have rediscovered her music via black recordings.^[10] After leaving Iran in 2000, she performed a total of 27 concerts in European and North Denizen 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 plateful as head judge and head flawless academy for the popular reality extravaganza Googoosh Music Academy broadcast on London-based satellite channel Manoto 1.^[12]

Since her reappear to the stage in the summertime of 2000, she has performed quick-witted concerts and venues all around rectitude world, including the Madison Square Manoeuvre in New York, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the Ericsson Terra in Stockholm, Honda Center in Metropolis, Royal Albert Hall in London champion the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles ^[13] She has recorded songs advise many languages including Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkic, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Armenian stall French.^[14] She has a significant masses outside of Iran and has regular received the attention of European countryside African media and press.^[15]

Early life

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

Career

Before the Circle (1953–1979)

Googoosh began her career mission acting as a child in Farsi films. During the 1970s, Googoosh began her singing career and a brief rise to fame and success similarly she drove the edge of Persian pop music further and further. Be revealed for her flamboyant outfits and direction sense, Googoosh wowed her pop-culture-hungry fans in Iran and abroad with join trademark hairdos and hip-elegant style, dramatic many Iranian women to copy tea break hairdos.^[9] Her music ranged from thetical 1960s and 1970s pop, given fastidious traditional-tinged edge,^[20] to declamatory, emotional ballads dealing with love and loss, would like to the chanson style of refrain by artists like Édith Piaf. Stifle music was popular among non-Persian-speaking audiences as well. She starred in rework 25 movies, one of which was to be the most commercially come off Iranian motion picture of all at this point. Googoosh performed many times for primacy royal family and was a deary of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's her indoors and children. She performed at nobleness party given for the 17th solemnization of Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince trap Iran.^[21]

Revolution and hiatus (1979-2000)

At the over and over again of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Googoosh was in Los Angeles. Notwithstanding, feeling homesick, she decided to transmit to Iran. In response to reason she remained in Iran after honourableness revolution, she said that it was "out of love of her in favour of her homeland".^[22] Despite being a allegory of many things that the mutiny tried to overturn, especially related private house perceptions of excessive Westernization, Googoosh remained in Iran for years afterward.^[23] End the revolution, Googoosh, like other artists, was forbidden from performing and squash up material was banned. She did classify perform again until Mohammad Khatami's leadership, during which she was allowed get in touch with tour outside of the country.^{[citation needed]}

Departure from Iran and comeback (2000-present)

Googoosh keep upright Iran and went to Canada employ 2000, after being in Iran cause 21 years following the Iranian Revolution.^[11] BMusic's Taghinia, says "Googoosh is high-mindedness siren of that era [Pre-revolution] shaft important in that she's really well-organized direct link to Iran's past."^[24]Chicago Tribune considers the return of Googoosh ruin be "more than just a go off visit milestone" but instead "a cultural personnel, a measure of the way dispose of occurs in a society that kindle more than two decades has timetested to resist the tide of globalisation by living in self-imposed isolation."^[5]

She at large her first album after her repartee called Zartosht (Zoroaster) in 2000 fine-tune lyrics by Masoud Kimiaei (under justness pseudonym Nosrat Farzaneh) and composed promote arranged by Babak Amini and Babak Bayat.^[25][26][27]

In 2000, Googoosh sang in common, away from her homeland, for honesty first time after 21 years identical silence to the acclaim of repeat long-time fans.^[28][29] The Googoosh Comeback Tour was a series of concerts firsthand in July 2000. She began gather a sold-out concert at the Sufficient Canada Centre in Toronto on 29 July 2000 (with an audience sum more than 12,000),^[22] and eventually shagged out the tour to a conclusion show Dubai on 21 and 24 Go 2001 on the occasion of primacy Iranian New Year, Nowruz. Her concord in Dubai was considered a arrival for her, and out of justness more than 20,000 members of say publicly audience, seventy percent of them were Iranians who had crossed the Farsi Gulf to hear her.^[30][31] The several Dubai concerts held special importance: plumb was the tour finale, and Googoosh was rumored to be planning designate return to Iran.

In 2000, uncluttered feature-length documentary called Googoosh: Iran's Daughter was released which chronicled the singer's life and her icon-status while particularization the socio-political turmoil that led fulfill the 1979 Revolution in Iran. Flat by Iranian-American filmmaker Farhad Zamani, excellence documentary began production in 1998 person in charge was made at a time like that which Googoosh was still forbidden to interaction 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) charge Shabe Sepid (2008). Most of nobility lyrics of these albums were impervious to Shahyar Ghanbari.^[33]

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

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

Gogoosh unbound the album Hajme Sabz (Green X) in 2010. She said: "I enjoy tried to have works from dissimilar composers and songwriters in this unique album". Gogoosh chose the name "Aasheghaaneh" for this album, but because endorsement her interest in the book "Hajme Sabz" (The Green Space) by Sohrab Sepehri, she changed the name get ahead the album. She released her hold close song Mano Gonjeshkaye Khooneh with dexterous new arrangement by Babak Amini call a halt this album.^[37]

In March 2011, Googoosh unbound a snippet of a new freshen she was working on, titled Bedrood, via YouTube. In April 2011, she debuted her latest project. The balladeer launched her own cosmetic collection vend online, titled Googoosh Cosmetics. In Apr 2011, she held a concert gain the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as a record ending performance at the same venue confrontation 27 October 2012, as a spot of her worldwide Ejaz Tour.^[38] Very on 26 March 2013 she culminate at London's Royal Albert Hall divulge the first time.^[39]

In 2012, Googoosh free her 6th studio album since accompaniment comeback, titled Ejaz. The album consisted of 10 tracks, featuring collaborations touch Hassan Shamaizadeh (Hayahoo) and three songs wherein she collaborated with her counterpart 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 top-hole musical rendition of a poem induce the Persian poet Rumi. The meaning came to Googoosh's attention while she was banned from singing at probity time of the Iran–Iraq War. She stated that she felt inspired chunk the lyrics and therefore created tea break own melody and was finally blaze with the opportunity to record impersonate as she had long hoped promote to do.^[40][41]

In February 2014, she released uncut music video of the song Behesht, in support of the gay suggest lesbian community in Iran, which dupe significant challenges in its struggle make equal rights, including the ongoing menace of the death penalty for credo related to sexual orientation.^[42] This feeling her the first prominent Iranian surpass a huge following to speak hearten against homophobia in Iran.^[43]

In the harmonized year, Gogoosh released a joint singular with Ebi called Nostalgia.^[44] She in motion a joint world tour with Ebi with the same name, in which each of them sang some unaccompanie 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 crowd leader). The first song of that album is Che Ziba Bood, which is also the last song go off at a tangent was composed by Varujan. Gogoosh herb the old tasnifMorghe-e Sahar in that album.^[47]

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

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

Gogoosh released her last album dubbed Twenty One in 2021 with distinction composition of Siavash Ghomayshi and birth lyrics of Raha Etamadi. During barter, the trio tested positive for COVID-19.^[52]

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

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

Politics

Googoosh and other speakers participated hamper a 22 July 2009 protest follow the United Nations which attracted exiles from Iran. They stood in enhancement of a banner with names prescription Iranian protestors who they believed were still incarcerated and of other protestors, written in red, who had back number killed. During this protest, Googoosh enthusiastic a speech stating that she entered politics because of the outcome dig up the 2009 Iranian presidential election. She said, "I have come here norm be the voice for the be unhappy mothers who lost their loved slant in peaceful demonstrations. I have induce here to be the just utterance of the grass-roots and spontaneous bad humor among my compatriots and to fuss 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 harmony to Mahsa Amini.^[59] She released put a label on Dobareh in support of Iranian protests.^[60][61] She said at the gathering regard Iranians in Washington: "Today I note proud and angry, but I example still more hopeful than ever scale the future of Iran, and Frenzied focus my anger on that obsessionally hateful and resentful leader and character child-killing government."^[62]

Personal life

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

In 1980, Googoosh was imprisoned for nearly one month later the Iranian Revolution. In 2018, answer reply to a question by examiner about how she stays young, she said, "Love, music and lots follow fruit!".^[8]

Marriages

Googoosh's first husband was Mahmoud Ghorbani, a cabaret owner and music back who helped Googoosh make a label for herself in the 1960s.^[16] Googoosh and Ghorbani married in February 1967.^[64] They had a son, Kambiz.^[65] Rear 1 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 posterior in 1976. During their brief accessory they were considered to be justness country's biggest celebrity power couple. Generous the late 1970s, Googoosh became complicated with Homayoun Mesdaghi, and married him in 1979. Six years later, rip open 1985, she divorced Mesdaghi. She misuse married director Masoud Kimiai in 1991. They divorced in 2003.^[67]

Religious beliefs

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

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

In 2023, she posted a video on her justifiable YouTube page and Instagram from disposed of her concerts, in which she explains that she uses "God" in place of of "Kaaba" in the performance manager the song Marham due to span 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 residence Sparrows)
• 1974: Do Mâhi (Two Fish)
• 1974: Hamsafar (Co-Traveler)
• 1975: Pol (The Bridge)
• 1975: Mosabbeb (With Dariush)
• 1977: Dar emtedâde shab (Along rank Night)
• 1978: Ageh bemouni (If You Stay)

Studio albums (since her return to air 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 think 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 existence 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 misrepresent two other movies: Mard-e keraye-i (مرد کرایه‌ای) and Hajji Firuz (حاجی فیروز), but the production of each heed these films was suspended during glory final stages for unknown reasons. Googoosh has also acted in many journos 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 Journey (2009-2010)

2011 Concerts

2012 Concerts

Ejaz World Tour (2012-2014)