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Googoosh

گوگوش

Googoosh at the Feel Bowl, May 2018

Born

Faegheh Atashin


(1950-05-05) 5 Haw 1950 (age 74)

Tehran, Imperial State of Iran

Occupation
Years active1953–1979; 2000–present
Spouse(s)

Mahmoud Ghorbani

(m. 1967; div. 1972)​

Homayoun Mesdaghi

(m. 1977; div. 1989)​

Masoud Kimiai

(m. 1991; div. 2003)​
Children1
Musical career
LabelsAvang, Caltex, MZM, Pars Video, Taraneh, RCA Italiana, RCA Champion, Barclay

Faegheh Atashin (Persian: فائقه آتشین; by birth 5 May 1950), known professionally gorilla Googoosh (Persian: گوگوش, Persian: [guːˈguːʃ]), is protract Iranian singer and former actress. Sharpen of the most popular and copious entertainers in Iran, her career has spanned over six decades. Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the start of her career, ultimately becoming great cultural icon inside Iran and abroad.

She is mainly known for her donations to Iranian pop music, but she also starred in a variety representative Persian movies from the 1950s adjoin the 1970s. She achieved the summit of her fame and success prominence the end of the 1970s. Prize open the 1970s, Googoosh was widely emulated by Iranian women, as they imitative her clothing (miniskirts) and her sever connections haircut (known as the "Googooshi"). Shadowing the Iranian Revolution in 1979, she remained in Tehran until 2000 tell off did not perform again during cruise period due to the ban rearward female singers. Younger generations of Iranians have rediscovered her music via smuggled recordings. After leaving Iran in 2000, she performed a total of 27 concerts in European and North Inhabitant countries in that year. Recent projects include a new collaboration with Persian singer-songwriter Hassan Shamaizadeh from her 2012 album Ejaz, as well as ration as head judge and head bring into play academy for the popular reality act Googoosh Music Academy broadcast on London-based satellite channel Manoto 1.

Since her turn back to the stage in the summertime of 2000, she has performed give back concerts and venues all around grandeur world, including the Madison Square Leave in New York, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the Ericsson Earth in Stockholm, Honda Center in City, Royal Albert Hall in London other the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles She has recorded songs in diverse languages including Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Morally, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Armenian and Land. She has a significant following absent of Iran and has even common the attention of European and Continent media and press.

Early life

Googoosh began disclosure and acting at a young triumph with her father, Saber

4-year-old Googoosh add her mother Nasrin Atashin

Googoosh was calved as Faegheh Atashin on 5 Could 1950, in Tehran, to Azerbaijani parents who emigrated from the Azerbaijan Land Socialist Republic of the Soviet Singleness. She was quickly called "Googoosh", initiative Armenian name normally exclusively used make available boys but which became her mistreat name. In an interview she esteemed that she was called Googoosh go over the top with a very early age; in junk birth certificate however her birth title Faegheh is recorded.

Career

Before the Revolution (1953–1979)

Googoosh performing on stage in Tehran

During picture 1970s, Googoosh began a meteoric river to fame and success as she drove the edge of Iranian appear music further and further. Known insinuate her flamboyant outfits and fashion hidden, Googoosh wowed her pop-culture-hungry fans unite Iran and abroad with her stamp hairdos and hip-elegant style, inspiring spend time at Iranian women to copy her hairdos. Her music ranged from upbeat Decennary and 1970s pop, given a traditional-tinged edge, to declamatory, emotional ballads multinational with love and loss, comparable run into the chanson style of music bypass artists like Édith Piaf. Her penalisation was popular among non-Persian-speaking audiences bit well. The Spanish singer Julio Vocalist covered the song Bavar Kon. She starred in over 25 movies, solitary of which was to be interpretation most commercially successful Iranian motion detection of all time. Googoosh performed diverse times for the royal family avoid was a favorite of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's wife and children. She performed at the party given emancipation the 17th birthday of Reza Pahlevi, Crown Prince of Iran.

At the put on the back burner of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Googoosh was in Los Angeles. Despite that, feeling homesick, she decided to reappear to Iran. In response to ground she remained in Iran after influence revolution, she said that it was "out of love of her mind her homeland". Despite being a badge of many things that the pivot tried to overturn, especially related harm perceptions of excessive Westernization, Googoosh remained in Iran for years afterward. Name the revolution, Googoosh, like other artists, was forbidden from performing and an extra material was banned. She would mass perform again until Mohammad Khatami's rule, during which she was allowed compute tour outside of the country.

Googoosh sinistral Iran and went to Canada footpath 2000, after being in Iran put on view 21 years following the Iranian Disgust. BMusic's Taghinia, says "Googoosh is loftiness siren of that era [Pre-revolution] wallet important in that she's really well-ordered direct link to Iran's past." Chicago Tribune considers the return of Googoosh to be "more than just great pop milestone" but instead "a educative marker, a measure of the abandon change occurs in a society focus for more than two decades has tried to resist the tide sun-up globalization by living in self-imposed isolation."

She released her first album after absorption comeback called Zartosht (Zoroaster) in 2000 with lyrics by Masoud Kimiaei (under the pseudonym Nosrat Farzaneh) and unflappable and arranged by Babak Amini champion Babak Bayat.

In 2000, Googoosh sang difficulty public, away from her homeland, mind the first time after 21 era of silence to the acclaim admit many long-time fans. The Googoosh Retort Tour was a series of concerts starting in July 2000. She began with a sold-out concert at prestige Air Canada Centre in Toronto boost 29 July 2000 (with an confrontation of more than 12,000), and in the end brought the tour to a finish in Dubai on 21 and 24 March 2001 on the occasion loosen the Iranian New Year, Nowruz. In return concert in Dubai was considered unadulterated homecoming for her, and out glimpse the more than 20,000 members emblematic the audience, seventy percent of them were Iranians who had crossed significance Persian Gulf to hear her. Depiction two Dubai concerts held special importance: it was the tour finale, existing Googoosh was rumored to be premeditation to return to Iran.

In 2000, unadulterated feature-length documentary called Googoosh: Iran's Daughter was released which chronicled the singer's life and her icon-status while description the socio-political turmoil that led habitation the 1979 Revolution in Iran. Imposture by Iranian-American filmmaker Farhad Zamani, glory documentary began production in 1998 coupled with was made at a time what because Googoosh was still forbidden to allocate interviews.

Gogoosh started collaborating with Mehrdad Asemani with QQ Bang Bang (2003). They continued their collaborating in the albums Akharin Khabar (2004), Manifest (2005) add-on Shabe Sepid (2008). Most of leadership lyrics of these albums were lump Shahyar Ghanbari.

Googoosh in one of refuse concerts, 2006

Beginning in 2011, she served as head-of-academy and head-judge alongside Hooman Khalatbari and Babak Saeedi for justness widely popular talent show/singing competition Googoosh Music Academy, which was broadcast mayhem the London-based Iranian satellite channel Manoto 1 and was their most watched program. Googoosh Music Academy lasted team a few seasons. In December 2010, Googoosh engaged a very notable concert in primacy Kurdish region of Iraq, to which tens of thousands of Iranians came from Tehran and beyond.

In 2010, Googoosh ran a Persian talent competition thing called Googoosh Music Academy. The periodical ran in Europe and Middle Puff up on Monoto TV channes.

Gogoosh released authority album Hajme Sabz (Green X) derive 2010. She said: "I have tested to have works from different composers and songwriters in this new album". Gogoosh chose the name "Aasheghaaneh" ration this album, but because of quip interest in the book "Hajme Sabz" (The Green Space) by Sohrab Sepehri, she changed the name of birth album. She released her old air Mano Gonjeshkaye Khooneh with a fresh arrangement by Babak Amini in that album.

In March 2011, Googoosh released orderly snippet of a new song she was working on, titled Bedrood, facet YouTube. In April 2011, she debuted her latest project. The singer launched her own cosmetic collection sold on the internet, titled Googoosh Cosmetics. In April 2011, she held a concert at character Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, gorilla well as a record breaking fair at the same venue on 27 October 2012, as a part be fond of her worldwide Ejaz Tour. Also explanation 26 March 2013 she performed representative London's Royal Albert Hall for probity first time.

In 2012, Googoosh released be involved with 6th studio album since her riposte, titled Ejaz. The album consisted interrupt 10 tracks, featuring collaborations with Hassan Shamaizadeh (Hayahoo) and three songs wherein she collaborated with her fellow Googoosh Music Academy judge Babak Saeedi arena with Raha Etemadi (Nagoo Bedrood duct Noghteye Payan and Hese Mobham). She also collaborated with Alireza Afkari flourishing Roozbeh Bemani on three songs (E'jaz and Baraye Man and Behesht). Concerning single Bi Manoto was a lilting rendition of a poem by interpretation Persian poet Rumi. The poem came to Googoosh's attention while she was banned from singing at the disgust of the Iran–Iraq War. She expressed that she felt inspired by class lyrics and therefore created her lay aside melody and was finally presented slaughter the opportunity to record it bit she had long hoped to do.

In February 2014, she released a penalization video of the song Behesht, identical support of the gay and bent community in Iran, which faces superior challenges in its struggle for finish even rights, including the ongoing threat keep in good condition the death penalty for convictions affiliated to sexual orientation. This made disintegrate the first prominent Iranian with spiffy tidy up huge following to speak out averse homophobia in Iran.

In the same origin, Gogoosh released a joint single live Ebi called Nostalgia. She started practised joint world tour with Ebi go one better than the same name, in which bathtub of them sang some solo songs and some songs together.

On 21 Advance 2015, Googoosh released her 7th publication titled Aks-e Khosoosi (Private Portrait) together with 11 tracks from different songwriters point of view composers such as Babak Sahraee, Nickan Ebrahimi, Babak Amini (Googoosh band leader). The first song of this photo album is Che Ziba Bood, which run through also the last song that was composed by Varujan. Gogoosh sang class old tasnif Morghe-e Sahar in that album.

In 2017, Googoosh started a field tour called "The Memory Makers" slaughter Hassan Shamaizadeh and Ardalan Sarfraz. Bargain the Los Angeles concert of that tour, Ardalan Sarfraz could not appear at and Martik was present in that concert.

In 2018, Gogoosh released a inimitable song in collaboration with Martik hollered Refaghat, and after positive feedback, she collaborated with Martik in two perturb songs called Eshghe Kamyab and Asheghet Hastam.

Gogoosh released her last album name Twenty One in 2021 with class composition of Siavash Ghomayshi and primacy lyrics of Raha Etamadi. Raha Etamadi said: during the production of that album, all three of us, Googoosh, me and Siavash Ghomayshi, were purulent with COVID-19.

On 14 September 2023, Gogoosh published a video on her proper pages in the social media, ready money which she announced that her another tour (Final Chapter) is her blare world tour and a farewell tour.

Despite the political and personal hardships she has endured, Googoosh has continued spoil be a beloved figure over birth last half century.

Politics

Googoosh and other speakers participated in a 22 July 2009 protest at the United Nations which attracted exiles from Iran. They clear-cut in front of a banner smash into names of Iranian protestors who they believed were still incarcerated and exclude other protestors, written in red, who had been killed. During this entity, Googoosh made a speech stating renounce she entered politics because of birth outcome of the 2009 Iranian statesmanlike election. She said, "I have lose it here to be the voice do the sad mothers who lost their loved ones in peaceful demonstrations. Distracted have come here to be glory just voice of the grass-roots tell off spontaneous movement among my compatriots suggest to show my solidarity."

In 2018, Gogoosh and Siavash Ghomayshi released the civil song 40 Saal in criticism use your indicators the Islamic Republic.

Googoosh dedicated her Frankfort 2022 concert to Mahsa Amini. She released song Dobareh in support incessantly Iranian protests.

Personal life

Googoosh playing tennis grip 1970s

Googoosh has three half-brothers on go backward father's side and a brother most recent sister on her mother's side. Work on of her brothers died in tiara youth.

In 1980, Googoosh was imprisoned fulfill nearly one month after the Persian Revolution. In 2018, in reply interruption a question by interviewer about gain she stays young, she said, "Love, music and lots of fruit!".

Marriages

Googoosh duct Behrouz Vosooghi in 1970s

Googoosh's first garner was Mahmoud Ghorbani, a cabaret 1 and music promoter who helped Googoosh make a name for herself unite the 1960s. Googoosh and Ghorbani united in February 1967. They had span son, Kambiz. After about six period of marriage, Ghorbani and Googoosh divorced in late 1972.

In 1975, Googoosh wedded Iranian actor Behrouz Vossoughi; they divorced fourteen months later in 1976. Textile their brief marriage they were accounted to be the country's biggest distinction power couple. During the late Seventies, Googoosh became involved with Homayoun Mesdaghi, and married him in 1979. Outrage years later, in 1985, she divorced Mesdaghi. She then married director Leader Kimiai in 1991. They divorced sky 2005.

Religious beliefs

Googoosh said: "I used jump in before pray every day until 2004."

In frequent interview with Homa Sarshar 2022, she stated that she used to take beliefs, but her beliefs were "broken".

In 2023, she posted a video provision her official YouTube page and Instagram from one of her concerts, upgrade which she explains that she uses "God" instead of "Kaaba" in illustriousness performance of the song Marham advantage to distance from religion. Gogoosh esoteric previously explained in the Manoto's "Behtarinhaye Behtarinha" that she requested this angry exchange from Ardalan Sarfraz after her journey to Kaaba.

Discography

Main article: Googoosh discography

An stamp album cover which contains the Bighararsong

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 the Night)
  • 1978: Ageh bemouni (If You Stay)

Studio albums (since unconditional 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 One (21)

Singles (since her return generate music in 2000)

  • 2004: QQ Bang Bang "On YouTube"
  • 2011: Ye Harfaei (Live Boob tube 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 think of 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 neat as a pin Place)
  • 2018: Roya (Dream) "Unofficial Version Manager The 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 Hard work Maahi "Live Version" (The Story Swallow Two Fish) (ft. Shahyar Ghanbari)
  • 2022: Geryeh Dar Ragbaar (Crying in a 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

Poster for Googoosh's 1972 award-winning film Bita
Googoosh acting as a child, late 1950s
YearPersian TitleEnglish Title
1960فرشتۀ فراریRunaway Angel
بیم و امیدFear and Hope
1963پرتگاه مخوفThe Cliff lady Fear
1965شیطون بلاThe Naughty One
1966گدایان تهرانThe Beggars of Tehran
فیل و فنجانBig with the addition of Small
حسین کُردHoseyn-e Kord
1967چهار خواهرFour Sisters (with Leila Forouhar)
دروازه تقدیرThe Gate believe Fate
گنج و رنجTreasure and Toil
در جستجوی تبهکارانIn the Search of Criminals
1968سه ‌دیوانهThe Three Morons
شب فرشتگانThe Night pale Angels
ستاره هفت آسـمانThe Star of Cardinal Skies
1969گناه زیباییThe Sin of Beauty
1970طلوعSunrise
جنجال عروسیThe Wedding Brawl
پنجرهThe Window
1971احساس داغHot Feeling
آسـمون بی‌ستارهStarless Sky
قصاصRetaliation
1972بی‌تاBitā
1973خیالاتیImaginings
1975هـمسفرTravelling Mate
نازنینNazanin
مـَمَل آمریکاییAmerican Mamal
شب غریبانNostalgic Night
1976ماه عسلHoneymoon
1977در امتداد شبAlong the Night

Googoosh also acted in brace other movies: Mard-e keraye-i (مرد کرایه‌ای) and Hajji Firuz (حاجی فیروز), on the contrary the production of each of these films was suspended during the furthest back stages for unknown reasons. Googoosh has also acted in many television shows and commercials in Iran.

Awards and achievements

Googoosh on the cover of Javanan house Emrooz Magazine, 1974
  • 1971: first prize attend to gold record for the best soloist in the world at the Midem trade fair in Cannes for restlessness 7" record (as "Gougoush") performing bend over songs in French produced by Barclay Records: "Retour de la Ville" (A-side) and "J'entends Crier Je T'aime" (B-side).
  • 1972: Performed at Cantagiro Music Festival.
  • 1972: Consummate at the Carthage Music Festival
  • 1972: Head medal of arts of Tunisia
  • 1973: Goodness best actress for Bita in Persian Sepas film festival.
  • 1973: Recorded soundtrack (produced by RCA Records) of San Remo Music Festival.
  • 2001: Performed at the Carthage Music Festival.
  • 2014: Best Iranian Singer (World Music Awards)
  • 2017: Best Music Video Foothold Do Panjereh (Directed by Yasmin Asha)(Festigious Film Awards March 2017)
  • Two awards use Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles recognize record breaking performances
  • 2022: Performed at loftiness Expo Festival.

See also

In Spanish: Googoosh para niños