Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Googoosh performs at Scotiabank Arena on Jan. 17, 2025, in Toronto. Jeremy Chan Photography/Getty Images Before Beyoncé, before ...

“The stage is my first homeland,” 75-year-old Iranian singer Googoosh tells Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, noting that her second is Iran. A child performer who became one of the defining voices ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on March 13, 2026. Find that audio here. Prior to the 1979 revolution, Iranian singer and actor Googoosh was a pop superstar. But she was jailed by the ...

For Googoosh, Iran's most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or another. It began as a child, performing with her acrobat father who balanced her on a chair atop another ...

The first time Googoosh was asked to write a memoir, the request came from Iran’s Islamic Republic interrogators. Their goal was for the pop superstar to relay a “cautionary tale.” This, of course, ...

Her songs soundtracked the 60s and 70s, but the revolution silenced her. The legendary artist finally has her say, in this uneven memoir If you ask any Iranian to name the most important female pop ...

It's the mid-1970s in Iran, and the country's unassailable monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, is throwing a private birthday bash for his eldest son, Reza Pahlavi. No expense is spared, which is why the ...