"If you ask any Iranian to name the most important female pop star in our country's history, they'll say Googoosh. Nobody else comes close. Over six decades of revolution, suppression and exile, Googoosh has gone from singer to cultural icon, a symbol of a country's grief for its murdered, imprisoned, and muzzled artists, and a living link between pre-revolutionary Iran and the diaspora."
"Googoosh was just three years old when she started singing in small halls and cabaret venues where her father worked. By her teens she was a film actor and a fashion icon. In the 60s and 70s, when my mother was a teenager, Googoosh was everywhere: on television, in films, magazines, on the radio. She kept recreating herself her style, her moves, her hair."
Googoosh stands as Iran's foremost female pop star and an enduring cultural icon symbolizing grief for murdered, imprisoned, and muzzled artists and connecting pre-revolutionary Iran to the diaspora. She began singing at age three in small halls and cabarets and became a film actor and fashion icon by her teens, appearing widely in the 1960s and 70s on television, in films, magazines and radio while continually reinventing her style and influence. After the 1979 revolution cultural crackdowns pushed secular art underground; in 1980 she was arrested and banned from performing, though her songs continued to circulate clandestinely. Her memoir frames the 1980 arrest, recounts interrogations and confinement, and places her in a cell with fellow singer and actor Marjan, with prison treatment by clerics described as terrifying.
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