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Googoosh
Faegheh Atashin, known professionally as Googoosh, is an Iranian singer and former actress. Regarded as a pop icon, she is one of the most popular and prolific entertainers in Iran, and her career has spanned over six decades. Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming a cultural icon inside Iran and abroad.
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entertainment · Iranian singer and actress (born 1950) · actor · singer · also Googoosh, Faegheh Atashin, Fayika Atashyn
Born 5 May 1950 · Q255233
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2026· 5 entries
Published video “Sarzaminam سرزمینم”.
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NDTV: Googoosh, The Voice of Iran, Has Gone Quiet And Thats Her Point
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Yahoo: Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s her point
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The Guardian: Googoosh: A Sinful Voice by Googoosh with Tara Dehlavi review – the extraordinary story of an Iranian icon
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2025· 10 entries
Co-written with Tara Dehlavi, and the Persian translation of this book, translated by Homa Sarshar, was released on December 10 of the same year
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Newsweek: Pop Star Googoosh on Iran’s Censorship, Exile and Her Fight to Perform
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Published video “My Memoir”.
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Published video “همایش همکاری ملی برای نجات ایران”.
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Published video “Ed Sheeran - Azizam (feat. Googoosh) (Visualizer)”.
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Published video “Googoosh "Makhloogh" | Live Video is LIVE! #music #googoosh #live #concert”.
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Published video “Googoosh - Makhloogh (Live in Toronto 1.17.2025) |”.
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Published video “Googoosh "Mano Gonjishka" (Featuring Babak Amini) | Full Video Live #concert #live #googoosh #shorts”.
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Published video “Googoosh - Mano Gonjishka (Live in Toronto 1.17.2025) | منو گنجشکا به همراهی بابک امینی”.
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Published video “Googoosh - Hamseda (Live in Toronto 1.17.2025) | گوگوش ، آهنگ همصدا ، کنسرت تورنتو ۲۰۲۵”.
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “Final Chapter - Upcoming Events”.
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A documentary about Googoosh, featuring her own presence, titled Googoosh – Made of Fire, was released in cinemas in Germany
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of Googoosh”.
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Posted a video on her official YouTube page and Instagram from one of her concerts, in which she explains that she uses "God" instead of "Kaaba" in the performance of the song Marham due to distance from religion
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2022· 2 entries
Yahoo: Googoosh and the Daughters of the Revolution
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Stated that she used to have beliefs, but her beliefs were "broken"
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2021· 3 entries
NPR: Iranian Singer Googoosh Raises Her Voice To Keep Her Nation's Culture Alive
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Released album “Twenty One”.
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With the composition of Siavash Ghomayshi and the lyrics of Raha Etamadi
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2018· 3 entries
In reply to a question by interviewer about how she stays young, she said, "Love, music and lots of fruit
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Googoosh released a single song in collaboration with Martik called Refaghat, and after positive feedback, she collaborated with Martik in two other songs called Eshghe Kamyab and Asheghet Hastam
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Googoosh and Siavash Ghomayshi released the political song 40 Saal in criticism of the Islamic Republic
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2017· 1 entry
Googoosh started a world tour called "The Memory Makers" with Hassan Shamaizadeh and Ardalan Sarfraz
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Aks Khosoosi”.
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Released album “Dou Panjereh”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “E'jaz”.
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Googoosh released her 6th studio album since her comeback, titled Ejaz
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2011· 2 entries
Released album “Googoosh”.
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Served as head-of-academy and head-judge alongside Hooman Khalatbari and Babak Saeedi for the widely popular talent show/singing competition Googoosh Music Academy, which was broadcast on the London-based Iranian sat
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2010· 2 entries
Released album “Hajm-e Sabz (Green X)”.
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Googoosh ran a Persian talent competition show called Googoosh Music Academy
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2009· 1 entry
During this protest, Googoosh made a speech stating that she entered politics because of the outcome of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “40 Golden Hits of Googoosh”.
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Released album “Shabe Sepid”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Akse Fori (Snapshot)”.
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Released album “Akharin Khabar”.
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According to her 2023 interview, where she said: "I used to pray every day until 2004
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2000· 5 entries
Performed a total of 27 concerts in European and North American countries in that year
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With lyrics by Masoud Kimiaei (under the pseudonym Nosrat Farzaneh) and composed and arranged by Babak Amini and Babak Bayat
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After being in Iran for 21 years following the Iranian Revolution
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Googoosh sang in public, away from her homeland, for the first time after 21 years of silence to the acclaim of many long-time fans
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A feature-length documentary called Googoosh: Iran's Daughter was released which chronicled the singer's life and her icon-status while detailing the socio-political turmoil that led to the 1979 Revolution in Iran
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Googoosh Volume 1”.
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And was made at a time when Googoosh was still forbidden to give interviews
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Googoosh 3 - Doe Mahi”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Harf”.
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Released album “Pol”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “نیمه گمشده من”.
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1990· 7 entries
Released album “Persian Music: Googoosh 3, Dou Mahi”.
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Released album “Googoosh 4, Dou Panjareh: "Persian Music"”.
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Released album “Golden Songs: Volume 1”.
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Released album “Jadeh”.
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Released album “Golden Songs: Volume 2”.
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Released album “Kavir”.
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Released album “Mordaab”.
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1980· 1 entry
Googoosh was imprisoned for nearly one month after the Iranian Revolution
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1975· 1 entry
Googoosh married Iranian actor Behrouz Vossoughi; they divorced fourteen months later in 1976
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-05-05.
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