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 ...

Googoosh, Iran's iconic pop diva, was silenced after the 1979 Islamic revolution banned women singers from performing publicly. Iranian-American filmmaker Farhad Zamani explores her journey from child ...

While other Iranian children played and attended school, Faegheh Atashin (b. 1950) performed in her acrobat father’s vaudeville acts, rising to fame with a singing voice that sounded “like the ...

What the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts could use is a really big show by a superdiva — Celine or Streisand or even Madonna. Instead the joint that would deliver culture to downtown brings in ...

Another female singer has challenged Iran's strict Islamic dress code by posting video of herself performing without a head scarf. Hana Kamkar is the second singer to publish a concert video that ...

The new album "Tehrangeles Vice" is a daring collection of Iranian disco and synthpop recorded in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. The term Tehrangeles refers to the Iranian American diaspora in ...