When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home before long. At 29, he’d already established himself as an innovative force in ...

The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...

The musical legend, who was punished for ‘moral decay’ and went into exile, now voluntarily withholds her voice in solidarity.

Tehran, Iran – By now, a celebrated Iranian singer was supposed to have performed a mega-concert at Tehran’s iconic Azadi Tower in a state-organised demonstration of national unity after the 12-day ...

Iranian singer Googoosh has said she is “waiting for a change of regime to happen soon”, as the country faces renewed nationwide protests over economic hardship and political repression. “I am living ...

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 ...

I’ve seen many unusal artist pairings in my life: Ornette Coleman with Moroccan trance musicians, Willie Nelson’s reggae album, German trumpeter Volker Goetze’s gorgeous Amanké Dionte album with ...

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 ...