Googoosh

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Googoosh in Cupertino , 2011

Googoosh [ɡuˈɡuːʃ] (born May 5, 1950 in Tehran ; real name Faegheh Atashin ) is an Iranian singer and actress . She is one of the most popular singers in Iran and has established herself as an icon of Iranian pop culture. In addition, she starred in several Iranian films of the 1960s and 1970s.

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

Life

Googoosh was born in Tehran as the daughter of Azerbaijani immigrants. At the age of three Googoosh was already on stage with her father Saber Atashin , himself an acrobat and artist, and quickly became a child star. At the beginning of the 1960s, Googoosh's singing inspired Iranian composers to create a new style of Iranian pop music , a mixture of Persian poetry and others. a. Blues , jazz , latin , rock and disco music . With the help of composers like Varoojan, Shamiaizadeh and Farid Zaland , the Googooshs chansons became hits and she became a cult figure on the Iranian pop scene in the 1970s. With her hair look and clothing style, she also influenced the respective fashion trends of her time.

At the age of 20, Googoosh took part in several international music festivals and in 1971 won first prize in Cannes for her songs Retour de la ville and J'entends crier je t'aime . In 1972 she won the first prize at the music festival in Carthage ( Tunisia ). For the San Remo Music Festival (1973) she also registered twelve chansons in Italian and Spanish , which became an overnight success.

Her Spanish song Desde hace tiempo became a hit in South America in 1973 . In October 1977 she sang the song Tavalodat Mobarak in the palace in Tehran at the birthday party of the Iranian Crown Prince Cyrus Reza Pahlavi .

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 , Googoosh and other singers were banned from performing in public and their musical material was banned. Since she did not initially intend to leave Iran, she adapted to the new living conditions.

In the early 1990s she met her then husband Masoud Kimiai , who led her to a private recording studio for their first meeting. There she began to sing again for the first time after the years of 'Silence'. In 2000 Googoosh left Iran and started a world tour. Her long absence from the stage resulted in sold-out concert halls - an expression of her enormous popularity among Iranians and non-Iranians.

Her repertoire amounts to over 250 Persian-language and 55 international songs. Googoosh is a symbol of national pride for many Iranians at home and abroad. In 2001, a year after her big comeback at the sold-out Air Canada Center in Toronto, Iranian-American director Farhad Zamani released a biographical documentary entitled Googoosh: Iran's Daughter .

CD (selection)

  • Manifesto (2005)
  • Âkharin Khabar (Last Message) (2004)
  • Googoosh LIVE
  • Zartosht (Zarathustra) (2000)
  • Do-Mâhi (two fish / possibly like two fish in water)
  • Kavir (desert)
  • Mosâbeb (1975)
  • Do Panjareh (Two windows (which can never reach each other because there is a piece of wall between them)) (1970)
  • Nimeh Gom-shodeh Man (My Lost Half) (1971)
  • Behtarin Fasl-e Tâzeh (The Best New Season) (1970)
  • Pol (Bridge) (1975)
  • Live in concert
  • Ageh Bemooni (If you stay ...)
  • Kooh (The Mountain) (1972)
  • Dar Emtedâdeh Shab (In the deep of the night)
  • Man o Gonjeshkhâje Khooneh (Me and the sparrows of our home) (1970)
  • Setâreh (The Star)
  • Mordâb (The Moor) (1971)
  • Jâddeh (The Way)
  • Darjâ-i (One Sea)
  • Shabe Sepid (White Night) (2008)
  • E-Jaz (2012)
  • Akse Khosoosi (2015)

Filmography (selection)

  • 1960: Bim wa Omid (Fear and Hope)
  • 1961: Fereshteh-ye Farâri (Fleeing Angel)
  • 1965: Sheytoon-Bâlâ (The Cooked One )
  • 1970: Toloo
  • Panjareh (1970) (The Window)
  • Bitâ (1972)
  • Nâzanin (1976) (The Sweet)
  • Dar emtedâd-e Shab (1978) (In the depths of the night)
  • Hamsafar (traveling companion)
  • Mâh-e Asal (honeymoon)
  • Ehsâs-e Dâgh (hot desire)
  • Shab-e Gharibân (The Night of Strangers)
  • See Divâneh (Three Crazy Ones )

See also

Web links

Commons : Googoosh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Gillert: Homosexuality: Iranian icon breaks a taboo. In: welt.de . February 19, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Googoosh. The most celebrated Iranian pop artist of all times. Iran Chamber Society
  3. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/796962.stm
  4. ↑ http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/disque/22945.html
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aY811my4U
  6. ↑ http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1158.html
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-KuBrFFw28
  8. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306910/
personal data
SURNAME Googoosh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atashin, Faegheh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran