Marzieh (singer)

Ashraf al - Sadat Mortezaie (* 1924 in Tehran, † October 13th 2010 in Paris, or in Persian اشرف السادات مرتضایی ), stage name Marzieh ( مرضیه ) was a singer of Persian traditional music.

Life

Marzieh began her career in the 1940s at Tehran Radio, working together with other popular Persian songwriters and lyricists such as Ali Tadschvidi, Parvis Jaha, Homajun Chorram and Rahim Moeini Kirmanshahi. Your first major appearance before an audience they had in 1942, when she played the lead role of Shirin in Persian Farhad and Shirin opera in Dschame - Barbud opera house. Marzieh sang further during the 1960s and 1970s, together with the Farabi Orchestra, which was led by Mortesa Hannaneh, a pioneer of Persian polyphonic music. In various matters she sang before personalities like Queen Elizabeth II, Konrad Adenauer and Richard Nixon.

After the Islamic revolution in 1979, public performances and radio broadcasts of music female solo singers for ten years were banned altogether. Ayatollah Khomeini decreed at the time: " The voices of women should not be heard by men, unless they are members of their own families. "

After the death of Khomeini hinted the following mullahs that she could continue her singing career, provided they never sing for men. She refused and said: "I've always sung for all Iranians "; in 1994, she left as a result of repression finally finally Iran and moved to Paris.

In the West, she performed at several concerts, as in Los Angeles and at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The Paris-based composer Mohammad Shams and the tar soloist Hamid Reza Taherzadeh mainly worked with her in exile.

She was married twice; with her ​​first husband she had a daughter, Hengameh Amini, with her second husband Malik Afzali they had a son.

Marzieh died on October 13, 2010 in Paris at the age of 86 years to cancer.