[custom_adv] Gholām-Hossein Banān (1911 – 1986) was an musician and singer. He was one of the most prominent singers of the 20th century, and was renowned for the quality of his voice amongst others. [custom_adv] Rahi Mo'ayyeri (1909 – 1968) He was born into an artistic and musical family on April 30, 1909 . His uncle was the famous Qajar Era poet Foroughi Bastami. He began to write poetry when he was seventeen years old and chose Rahi as his pen name. He showed talent from an early age and wrote the famous "Shod Khazan" at the age of 12-13. [custom_adv] Eftekhar Dadehbala , better known as Mahasti (1946 – 2007), was an singer of Persian classical, Folk, and pop music. She was the younger sister of singer Hayedeh.Eftekhar Dadehbala was born on November 16, 1946. She is the younger sister of singer Hayedeh. [custom_adv] Reza Beyk Imanverdi was born in 1936. He found employment at the American embassy since he had a good knowledge of the English language. Beyk loved cinema and aspired to be an actor. In 1958, he joined a theatrical group named "Oscar". [custom_adv] Faegheh Atashin (born 5 May 1950), better known by her stage name Googoosh is an singer and actress. She is known for her contributions to pop music, but also starred in a variety of Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. [custom_adv] Pouri Banayi (born 1940) is a actress. She acted in more than 85 feature films between 1965 and 1979. During her years of acting before the revolution, she cooperated with directors such as Mehdi Reisfirooz, Samuel Khachikian, Masoud Kimiai, Farrokh Ghaffari, and Fereidoun Goleh. [custom_adv] Soraya Ghasemi (born 1940) is a actress was known as Mother of the persian Cinema.Hossein Erfani started his career as a voice actor at the Moulin Rouge Studio in 1961. He is known for dubbing over Humphrey Bogart roles in Maltese Falcon or Casablanca and Clark Gable role as Rhett Butler From Gone with the Wind. [custom_adv] Aref Arefkia , born August 10, 1940 and known as "the king of Hearts" and "the legend of pop", is a pop music singer and actor.He graduated from Industrial School of Art in 1958. [custom_adv] Hooshmand Aghili is a prominent singer, best known for his song Farda To Miaei . Aghili served as one of ten Honorary Judges of the 2005 contest The Search for the Star Musician, held to identify gifted amateur vocalists and musicians performing Persian traditional music and folk music. [custom_adv] She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s. Her overall impact and contributions to pop made her the most iconic female pop singer in the Persian speaking world. [custom_adv] Akbar Golpayegani also known as GOLPA started learning music at the age of four under the instructions of his father Hussein who also learnt music from his father too. [custom_adv] During the 1970s, Googoosh began a meteoric rise to fame and success as she drove the edge of pop music further and further. Known for her flamboyant outfits and fashion sense, Googoosh wowed her pop culture hungry fans in Iran and abroad with her trademark hairdos and hip-elegant style. [custom_adv] rene Zazians (1927 — 2012) was an actress. She worked with some famous new wave directors both before and after the 1979 revolution, such as Samuel Khachikian, Amir Naderi, Nosrat Karimi, Masoud Kimiyayi, and Alireza Davood Nejad. [custom_adv] Parvaneh Amir-Afshari was born on March 17, 1944, to an Aristocratic- family, East Azerbaijan Province. As a child, she was not allowed to sing in front of non-family members. She started to study Persian vocal music secretly under Ali Tajvidi.
