Googoosh

Googoosh [ ɡuɡu ː ʃ ] ( born May 5, 1950 in Tehran, real name Faegheh Atashin ) is an Iranian singer and actress. She played in several Iranian films of the 1960s and 1970s.

In addition to Iran, she was well known and popular in countries of the Iranian highlands in Central Asia, such as Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, also in Azerbaijan and Turkey and in other countries of the Near and Middle East. She sang in several languages. Today she lives in California (USA), where she continued her career.

Biography

Googoosh was born as the daughter of Azerbaijani immigrants in Tehran. At the age of three years was Googoosh with her father Saber Atashin even acrobat and artists on stage and quickly became a child star. Early 60s inspired the song Googooshs Iranian composers to a new style of Iranian pop music, a mixture of Persian poetry and among other things Blues, jazz, Latin, rock and disco music. With the help of composers such as Varoojan, Shamiaizadeh and Farid Zaland the Chansons Googooshs have become hits and she became an icon of the Iranian pop culture of the 70s. With her ​​hair look and style of dress they also influenced the particular fashion trend of their time.

At the age of 20 years Googoosh participated in several international music festivals and won in 1971 in Cannes the first prize for their songs Retour de la ville and J'entends t'aime crier ever. In 1972, she won the first prize of the music festival in Carthage ( Tunisia). For the music festival of San Remo (1973 ) they also registered 12 songs in Italian and Spanish, which were an overnight success.

Your Spanish song Desde hace tiempo was established in 1973 in South America to be a hit. She sang in October 1977 at the Palace in Tehran on the birthday celebration of the Iranian Crown Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi the song Tavalodat Mobarak.

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 it was forbidden Googoosh and other singers to perform in public, and their music was banned material. Since they initially did not intend to leave Iran, they adapted itself to the new conditions of life.

In the early 1990s she met her current husband Massoud Kimiaei that led to their first meeting in a private recording studio, where they ' silence ' for the first time began to sing again after years of. Googoosh left Iran in 2000 and embarked on a world tour. Their long absence from the stage made ​​for sold-out concert halls - an expression of their enormous popularity among Iranians and non - Iranians.

Their repertoire runs to over 250 Persian-language and 55 international songs.

CD selection

  • Manifesto
  • Akharin Khabar ( Last Post )
  • Googoosh LIVE
  • Zartosht ( Zarathustra )
  • Do- mahi (two fish / maybe like two fish in the water )
  • Kavir (Desert)
  • Mosâbeb
  • Do Panjareh ( Two windows (which can never be reached because there is a piece of wall between them) )
  • Nimeh Gom shodeh Man ( My lost half)
  • Behtarin Fasl -e Tazeh ( The best new season)
  • Pol (bridge)
  • Live in Concert
  • Ageh Bemooni ( If you stay ... )
  • Kooh ( The Mountain)
  • Dar Shab Emtedâdeh ( Deep in the Night )
  • Man o Gonjeshkhâje Khooneh ( I and the sparrows of our home )
  • Setareh ( The Star )
  • Mordab ( The Moor )
  • Jâddeh (The Way )
  • Darya -i ( A sea )

Filmography (selection)

  • Bim wa Omid (1960) ( fear and hope )
  • Fereshteh -ye Farari ( 1961) ( Fleeing angels)
  • Sheytoon - Bala (1965 ) (The Crafty )
  • Toloo (1970)
  • Panjareh (1970 ) (The window )
  • Bita (1972 )
  • Nazanin (1976 ) (The Sweet )
  • Dar -e Shab emtedâd (1978 ) (in the depth of the night)
  • Hamsafar ( traveling companion )
  • Mah -e Asal ( honeymoon )
  • Ehsas -e Dagh ( Hot Desire )
  • Shab -e Gharibân ( The Night of strangers)
  • Seh Divaneh ( Three Crazy )
Toronto Singing Near East Latin American music Sanremo Music of Iran
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