Taranehaye ghadimi googoosh biography

Iranian singer and actress (born 1950)

Faegheh Atashin (Persian: فائقه آتشین; aborigine 5 May 1950), known professionally as Googoosh (Persian: گوگوش, Persian:[guːˈguːʃ]^ⓘ), is an Iranian singer and earlier actress. One of the most popular and abundant entertainers in Iran, her career has spanned ancient history six decades.^[1][2][3] Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity in that the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming adroit cultural icon inside Iran and abroad.^[4][5][6]

She is generally known for her contributions to Iranian pop medicine, but she also starred in a variety footnote Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s.^[7][8] She achieved the pinnacle of her fame keep from success towards the end of the 1970s. Put back the 1970s, Googoosh was widely emulated by Persian women, as they copied her clothing (miniskirts) with the addition of her short haircut (known as the "Googooshi").^[1][9] Followers the Iranian Revolution in 1979, she remained pulsate Tehran until 2000 and did not perform brighten during that period due to the ban jump female singers. Younger generations of Iranians have rediscovered her music via bootleg recordings.^[10] After leaving Persia in 2000, she performed a total of 27 concerts in European and North American countries entice that year.^[11] Recent projects include a new indemnification with Iranian singer-songwriter Hassan Shamaizadeh from her 2012 album Ejaz, as well as serving as attitude judge and head of academy for the wellreceived reality show Googoosh Music Academy broadcast on London-based satellite channel Manoto 1.^[12]

Since her return to representation stage in the summer of 2000, she has performed in concerts and venues all around illustriousness world, including the Madison Square Garden in Contemporary York, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, honourableness Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Honda Center in Metropolis, Royal Albert Hall in London and the Tone Bowl in Los Angeles ^[13] She has transcribed songs in many languages including Persian, Azerbaijani, Country, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Armenian and French.^[14] She has a significant following outside of Iran paramount has even received the attention of European added African media and press.^[15]

Early life

Googoosh was born as Faegheh Atashin on 5 May 1950, in Tehran,^[1] to Azerbaijani parents who emigrated suffer the loss of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic of the Land Union.^[16] She was quickly called "Googoosh", an Asiatic name normally exclusively used for boys but which became her stage name.^[17] In an interview she noted that she was called Googoosh from on the rocks very early age; in her birth certificate quieten her birth name Faegheh is recorded.^[18][19][16]

Career

Before the Roll (1953–1979)

Googoosh began her career in acting hoot a child in Persian films. During the Seventies, Googoosh began her singing career and a ephemeral rise to fame and success as she flock the edge of Iranian pop music further innermost further. Known for her flamboyant outfits and feature sense, Googoosh wowed her pop-culture-hungry fans in Persia and abroad with her trademark hairdos and hip-elegant style, inspiring many Iranian women to copy junk hairdos.^[9] Her music ranged from upbeat 1960s good turn 1970s pop, given a traditional-tinged edge,^[20] to rhetorical, emotional ballads dealing with love and loss, give the impression to the chanson style of music by artists like Édith Piaf. Her music was popular amidst non-Persian-speaking audiences as well. She starred in clue 25 movies, one of which was to cast doubt on the most commercially successful Iranian motion picture assault all time. Googoosh performed many times for illustriousness royal family and was a favorite of Gaekwar of baroda Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's wife and children. She over at the party given for the 17th eat one\'s fill of Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran.^[21]

Revolution abstruse hiatus (1979-2000)

At the time of the Iranian Repulse in 1979, Googoosh was in Los Angeles. Still, feeling homesick, she decided to return to Persia. In response to why she remained in Persia after the revolution, she said that it was "out of love of her for her homeland".^[22] Despite being a symbol of many things zigzag the revolution tried to overturn, especially related revere perceptions of excessive Westernization, Googoosh remained in Persia for years afterward.^[23] After the revolution, Googoosh, come into sight other artists, was forbidden from performing and say no to material was banned. She did not perform pick up where you left off until Mohammad Khatami's presidency, during which she was allowed to tour outside of the country.^{[citation needed]}

Departure from Iran and comeback (2000-present)

Googoosh left Iran beam went to Canada in 2000, after being pile Iran for 21 years following the Iranian Revolution.^[11] BMusic's Taghinia, says "Googoosh is the siren bear witness that era [Pre-revolution] and important in that she's really a direct link to Iran's past."^[24]Chicago Tribune considers the return of Googoosh to be "more than just a pop milestone" but instead "a cultural marker, a measure of the way chalet occurs in a society that for more elude two decades has tried to resist the stream of globalization by living in self-imposed isolation."^[5]

She unattached her first album after her comeback called Zartosht (Zoroaster) in 2000 with lyrics by Masoud Kimiaei (under the pseudonym Nosrat Farzaneh) and composed playing field arranged by Babak Amini and Babak Bayat.^[25][26][27]

In 2000, Googoosh sang in public, away from her country of origin, for the first time after 21 years be totally convinced by silence to the acclaim of many long-time fans.^[28][29] The Googoosh Comeback Tour was a series accomplish concerts starting in July 2000. She began bash into a sold-out concert at the Air Canada Palsy-walsy in Toronto on 29 July 2000 (with spruce audience of more than 12,000),^[22] and eventually truckle the tour to a conclusion in Dubai assembly 21 and 24 March 2001 on the dispute of the Iranian New Year, Nowruz. Her concord in Dubai was considered a homecoming for shepherd, and out of the more than 20,000 human resources of the audience, seventy percent of them were Iranians who had crossed the Persian Gulf chew out hear her.^[30][31] The two Dubai concerts held rare importance: it was the tour finale, and Googoosh was rumored to be planning to return in the vicinity of Iran.

In 2000, a feature-length documentary called Googoosh: Iran's Daughter was released which chronicled the singer's life and her icon-status while detailing the socio-political turmoil that led to the 1979 Revolution consign Iran. Made by Iranian-American filmmaker Farhad Zamani, greatness documentary began production in 1998 and was sense at a time when Googoosh was still impermissible to give 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) and Shabe Sepid (2008). Most of integrity lyrics of these albums were by Shahyar Ghanbari.^[33]

Beginning in 2011, she served as head-of-academy and head-judge alongside Hooman Khalatbari and Babak Saeedi for blue blood the gentry widely popular talent show/singing competition Googoosh Music Academy, which was broadcast on the London-based Iranian moon channel Manoto 1 and was their most watched program.^[34] Googoosh Music Academy lasted three seasons. Stop in mid-sentence December 2010, Googoosh held a very notable put yourself out in the Kurdish region of Iraq, to which tens of thousands of Iranians came from Tehran and beyond.

In 2010, Googoosh ran a Iranian talent competition show called Googoosh Music Academy.^[35] Birth series ran in Europe and Middle East leave Monoto TV channes.^[36]

Gogoosh released the album Hajme Sabz (Green X) in 2010. She said: "I accept tried to have works from different composers skull songwriters in this new album". Gogoosh chose righteousness name "Aasheghaaneh" for this album, but because get into her interest in the book "Hajme Sabz" (The Green Space) by Sohrab Sepehri, she changed grandeur name of the album. She released her hostile song Mano Gonjeshkaye Khooneh with a new structure by Babak Amini in this album.^[37]

In March 2011, Googoosh released a snippet of a new freshen she was working on, titled Bedrood, via YouTube. In April 2011, she debuted her latest mission. The singer launched her own cosmetic collection advertise online, titled Googoosh Cosmetics. In April 2011, she held a concert at the Nokia Theatre coach in Los Angeles, as well as a record heartrending performance at the same venue on 27 Oct 2012, as a part of her worldwide Ejaz Tour.^[38] Also on 26 March 2013 she culminate at London's Royal Albert Hall for the principal time.^[39]

In 2012, Googoosh released her 6th studio recording since her comeback, titled Ejaz. The album consisted of 10 tracks, featuring collaborations with Hassan Shamaizadeh (Hayahoo) and three songs wherein she collaborated go out with her fellow Googoosh Music Academy judge Babak Saeedi and with Raha Etemadi (Nagoo Bedrood and Noghteye Payan and Hese Mobham). She also collaborated snatch Alireza Afkari and Roozbeh Bemani on three songs (E'jaz and Baraye Man and Behesht). Another celibate Bi Manoto was a musical rendition of neat as a pin poem by the Persian poet Rumi. The rime came to Googoosh's attention while she was illegitimate from singing at the time of the Iran–Iraq War. She stated that she felt inspired from one side to the ot the lyrics and therefore created her own concord and was finally presented with the opportunity strut record it as she had long hoped prospect do.^[40][41]

In February 2014, she released a music tv of the song Behesht, in support of distinction gay and lesbian community in Iran, which garrotte significant challenges in its struggle for equal seek, including the ongoing threat of the death bane for convictions related to sexual orientation.^[42] This obliged her the first prominent Iranian with a enormous following to speak out against homophobia in Iran.^[43]

In the same year, Gogoosh released a joint individual with Ebi called Nostalgia.^[44] She started a vein furrow world tour with Ebi with the same reputation, in which each of them sang some solitary songs and some songs together.^[45][46]

On 21 March 2015, Googoosh released her 7th album titled Aks-e Khosoosi (Private Portrait) including 11 tracks from different songwriters and composers such as Babak Sahraee, Nickan Ebrahimi, Babak Amini (Googoosh band leader). The first air of this album is Che Ziba Bood, which is also the last song that was sedate by Varujan. Gogoosh sang the old tasnifMorghe-e Sahar in this album.^[47]

In 2017, Googoosh started a universe tour called "The Memory Makers" with Hassan Shamaizadeh and Ardalan Sarfraz. In the Los Angeles chorus of this tour, Ardalan Sarfraz could not haunt and Martik was present in this concert.^[48][49][50]

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

Gogoosh released her ultimate album named Twenty One in 2021 with justness composition of Siavash Ghomayshi and the lyrics eliminate Raha Etamadi. During production, the trio tested and above for COVID-19.^[52]

On 14 September 2023, Gogoosh published smart video on her official pages in the communal media, in which she announced that her different tour (Final Chapter) is her last world jaunt and a farewell tour.^[53]

Despite the political and one-off hardships she has endured, Googoosh has continued acknowledge be a beloved figure over the last fraction century.^[54]

Politics

Googoosh and other speakers participated in a 22 July 2009 protest at the United Nations which attracted exiles from Iran. They stood in masquerade of a banner with names of Iranian protestors who they believed were still incarcerated and incessantly other protestors, written in red, who had back number killed. During this protest, Googoosh made a discourse stating that she entered politics because of nobleness outcome of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. She said, "I have come here to be prestige voice for the sad mothers who lost their loved ones in peaceful demonstrations. I have comprehend here to be the just voice of rendering grass-roots and spontaneous movement among my compatriots celebrated to show my solidarity."^[55][56]

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

Googoosh dedicated her City 2022 concert to Mahsa Amini.^[59] She released concord Dobareh in support of Iranian protests.^[60][61] She voiced articulate at the gathering of Iranians in Washington: "Today I feel proud and angry, but I break still more hopeful than ever about the forward-looking of Iran, and I focus my anger examine that obsessively hateful and resentful leader and blue blood the gentry child-killing government."^[62]

Personal life

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

In 1980, Googoosh was imprisoned carry nearly one month after the Iranian Revolution. Multiply by two 2018, in reply to a question by interrogator about how she stays young, she said, "Love, music and lots of fruit!".^[8]

Marriages

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

In 1975, Googoosh married Persian actor Behrouz Vossoughi;^[16] they divorced fourteen months next in 1976. During their brief marriage they were considered to be the country's biggest celebrity arduousness couple. During the late 1970s, Googoosh became active with Homayoun Mesdaghi, and married him in 1979. Six years later, in 1985, she divorced Mesdaghi. She then married director Masoud Kimiai in 1991. They divorced in 2003.^[67]

Religious beliefs

Googoosh said: "I overindulgent to pray every day until 2004."^[68]

In her meeting with Homa Sarshar in 2022, she stated ramble she used to have beliefs, but her doctrine were "broken".^[69][70]

In 2023, she posted a video modify her official YouTube page and Instagram from freshen of her concerts, in which she explains lose one\'s train of thought she uses "God" instead of "Kaaba" in greatness performance of the song Marham due to flit from religion.^[71] Gogoosh had previously explained in Manoto's "Behtarinhaye Behtarinha" that she requested this lyrics shun 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 house Sparrows)
• 1974: Do Mâhi (Two Fish)
• 1974: Hamsafar (Co-Traveler)
• 1975: Pol (The Bridge)
• 1975: Mosabbeb (With Dariush)
• 1977: Dar emtedâde shab (Along class Night)
• 1978: Ageh bemouni (If You Stay)

Studio albums (since her return to music 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 Ambush (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 am 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 Position 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-okay barrage) (Recorded 44 years 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 unsubtle two other movies: Mard-e keraye-i (مرد کرایه‌ای) last Hajji Firuz (حاجی فیروز), but the production reminiscent of each of these films was suspended during greatness final stages for unknown reasons. Googoosh has further acted in many television shows and commercials orders 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 Silhouette (2009-2010)

2011 Concerts

2012 Concerts

Ejaz Fake Tour (2012-2014)