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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Googoosh performs at Scotiabank Arena on Jan. 17, 2025, in Toronto. Jeremy Chan Photography/Getty Images Before Beyoncé, before ...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Googoosh was one of Iran’s most famous women, a child star who grew up to become a bona fide pop culture phenomenon. She released hit albums, starred in acclaimed films ...

Singer Googoosh has been called "The Voice of Iran," but in 1979 her voice was silenced by the Islamic Revolution. This year, she's celebrating 21 years since she broke that silence, with a new album ...

For Googoosh, Iran's most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or another. It began as a child, performing with her acrobat father who balanced her on a chair atop another ...

Her songs soundtracked the 60s and 70s, but the revolution silenced her. The legendary artist finally has her say, in this uneven memoir If you ask any Iranian to name the most important female pop ...

Few performers have had to endure the kind of disruption that befell the Iranian singer Googoosh when, at the peak of her fame, the 1979 Islamic revolution upended her career. Overnight, the magnetic ...

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