Remembering Googoosh

I think many music lovers must be aware of this legendary singer and actress named Googoosh (alternately spelled Gogosh, Googosh or Gougoush). I happened to see her album first time when I was a student of High School in car of principal of my college Prof. S. M. Yusuf. Latter, I came to listen to her actually and started loving her.

Googoosh was born ‘Faegheh Atashin’ on 5 May 1950. She had a talent of singing and when her father came to know about her talent, he helped her to get to performing and she is considered one of the famous singers of the time. She also did act in movies but she is widely celebrated more a singer than an actress.

Iranian Islamic revolution brought an end to solo female singing in Iran and this resulted in a ban on her singing too. She did not sing till 2000 and latter in 2001 on the occasion of Norouz she performed in Dubai. Googoosh’s first album released after her return was Zartosht (Zoroaster); she has had four more record-breaking albums since then, including QQBangBang, Last News, Manifest, and Shabe Sepid with Mehrdad Asemani released in March of this year. I would like to share the following song from her recent singing. I think she has the same old charisma that she had before Iranian revolution of 1979.