[custom_adv] Faegheh Atashin (born 5 May 1950), better known by her stage name Googoosh is a singer and actress, and one of homeland's most popular and enduring entertainers, whose career spans over 60 years. [custom_adv] Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming a cultural icon inside homeland and abroad. [custom_adv] She is mainly known for her contributions to persian pop music, but she has also starred in a variety of Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. [custom_adv] She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s. In the 1970s, Googoosh was widely emulated by persian women, as they copied her clothing (miniskirts) and her short haircut (known as the "Googooshy"). [custom_adv] Following the Revolution in 1979, she remained in capital until 2000 and did not perform again due to the ban on female singers. Younger generations of persians have rediscovered her music via bootleg recordings. [custom_adv] After leaving homeland in 2000, she performed a total of 27 concerts in European and North American countries in that year.Recent projects include a new collaboration with persian singer-songwriter Hassan Shamaizadeh from her 2012 album Ejaz, as well as serving as head judge and head of academy for the popular reality show Googoosh Music Academy broadcast on London-based satellite channel Manoto. [custom_adv] Since her return to the stage in the summer of 2000, she has performed in concerts and venues all around the world, including the Madison Square Garden in New York, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, and The Royal Albert Hall in London. [custom_adv] She has recorded songs in many languages including Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Armenian and French.She has a significant following outside of Iran and has even received the attention of European and African media and press. [custom_adv] All these reason made Googoosh stay in Los Angeles, then move to New York with her husband. However, during her stay in New York, she suddenly decided to return to homeland. [custom_adv] A friend who was influential in capital’s airport had promised that she should be moved from the airport to her mother’s house without being harmed. In the late 1990s, after paying her taxes, Googoosh was able to obtain a passport and separated from her second husband in 1989 after 12 years of marriage. [custom_adv] In 1991 she married the famous persian director Masoud Kimiai and decided to star in one of his films in 2000, which sparked a wave of opposition by the hardliners in homeland, who still considered Googoosh as a person who promoted vulgarity and promiscuity. [custom_adv] For this film, Googoosh and her husband traveled to Cuba, but the producer announced two months after they travelled that the film could not be produced. The project halted and they returned to homeland. Googoosh then migrated to Canada. Within a year and a few months, Googoosh held big concerts in the United States, Canada, Europe and Dubai. As such she could no longer return to homeland. [custom_adv] She is still active in her career and has been singing in many countries, with her concerts populated by fans from homeland and other countries. Many of these concerts, hosted by Googoosh and other persian artists living outside homeland, are held in Iran's neighboring countries. The goal of many persians is to travel to these countries, such as the UAE and Turkey and attend the concerts of their beloved singers. [custom_adv] Googoosh released a new song with a Siavash Ghomayshi, an artist from her generation, titled "Forty Years," which speaks of the passing of 40 years since the Islamic revolution in homeland and the situation in the country. This song caused media to republish Googoosh statement about her return to homeland and what happened to her, which led to many responses on social media where people shared that interview, dating back to a press conference held in 2000 in Canada on the occasion of her first concert after a twenty-year hiatus. [custom_adv] “I was at some place in the world and my son in another, while my father, mother and brothers were in capital,” Googoosh justified her return to homeland a few months after the Islamic revolution. Googoosh was not only a popular singer since the beginning of her career, but by time she became a cultural icon, inside homeland and abroad.
