DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — For Googoosh, Iran's most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or ...

For decades, the pop icon — Googoosh — resisted telling her story. She shares why her new memoir became a 'necessary duty' — ...

Iranian pop star Googoosh was banned from singing and forced into exile—now she tells her story.

Iranian pop icon Googoosh has revealed that her new music will release only after the current Islamic Republic regime in ...

On a Tuesday afternoon, during the lunchtime rush at Los Angeles’ über-trendy Highly Likely Café, the strains of Iranian singer Googoosh’s song “Talagh” come through the speakers. The song, whose ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I’m hopeful,” Googoosh, the legendary Iranian performer, told me recently. “I have to be!” Her optimism might be surprising, given the recent grim news from Iran. Yet she follows events in her ...

Members of the Iranian community in Mexico hold banners outside the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mexico City, while demonstrating against the death of Mahsa Amini. (Credit: Gerardo ...