Googoosh

Googoosh

Nacimiento : 1950-05-05, Tehran, Iran

Historia

Faegheh Atashin, nicknamed Googoosh, was born in 1950 in Tehran. She lost her mother when she was an infant and moved with her father to Tehran. Her father, Saber, was an entertainer and a comedian, and he encouraged Googoosh to sing in bars and cafés in Laleh-Zar Street of Tehran when she was only 5 years old. Her singing at such an early age prevented her from getting any kind of a primary education. In 1960, when she was only 10 years old, she had a successful role in the movie Fereshteh farari (1961), a film by George Obadiah. Her first experience with cinema, however, was a movie by the title of Bim va omid (1960) in 1958. Googoosh was discovered by Iranian composers for her natural singing talent, where she created a unique style in modern Iranian music and became a pop culture icon among the Iranian youth. In 1969, the notorious "mini-joupe" dress was a fashion among young Iranian girls who imitated Googoosh. Her famous short haircut in 1975 is still popular among females in Iran. Googoosh is said to have been a victim of underworld organizations who controlled cabarets and bars in Tehran. One of the underworld bosses, Parviz Ghorbani, the owner of "Shokoufeh Nou" cabaret was the brain behind conspiracy against Googoosh where he made created enormous debt in her name. In 1973, she married Ghorbani against her will to pay her debts. She has a son, Kambiz, from her first marriage. Googoosh starred in many popular movies, among which were Bita (1972), Mah-e asal (1976) (Honeymoon), Hamsafar (1975), Mamal Amricayi (1975) and Dar emtedad shab (1978) are the most popular. She also starred in Ce divane (1968) with Garshasb Raoufi and Mohammad Motevaselani. Her acting career ended with the 1979 revolution in Iran. She acted with Behrouz Vossoughi, the most popular actor of his time, in several movies and later joined Saeed Kangarani in the erotic movie Dar emtedad shab (1978), which was well-received by Iranians, as well as other Middle Eastern countries. Critics, however, never considered Googoosh a successful actress. In 1976, she married Behrouz Vossoughi, but their marriage only lasted for one year. Before their marriage, Vosoughi was already engaged to Pouri Baneai, another popular actress. This marriage, however, ended the friendship between Banaii and Googoosh. With the Islamic commotion of 1979, Googoosh stopped her 25-years of singing and acting career for good. She also refused to leave Iran and consistently rejected lucrative offers for recording new albums outside the country. According to Parviz Khatibi, the late Iranian director, Googoosh left Iran right after the revolution and stayed in New York for a while. This stay, however, was so short that many Iranians don't remember it. She married Masud Kimiai and choose to resides in an apartment in the north of Tehran. On July 2000, Googoosh finally broke 21 years of silence by announcing an unexpected, but much anticipated, North American tour, starting in Toronto. To date, concerts have been performed in Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco; and Washington, D.C. Other tours are expected in Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and San Jose, with many more tour dates added on a weekly basis, due to sold-out performances.

Perfil

Googoosh
Googoosh

Películas

Filmfarsi
(archive footage)
A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Googoosh & Martik - Live in Concert
Googoosh & Martik - Live in Concert (Paris, 2019)
Googoosh Live at Hollywood Bowl
Herself
Googoosh's live concert in Hollywood Bowl which was also later covered in Bolour Banafsh's program, in BBC Persian.
Googoosh: Iran's Daughter
Herself
An impressionist feature-length documentary film, Googoosh: Iran's Daughter, aims to locate the "silenced" legendary Iranian pop singer/actress in the midst of Iran's social, political, and cultural transformation.
Tonight a tear is shed
Playback Singer
Along the Night
Parvaneh
Parvaneh, a famous singer and movie star, has an affair with a married man. A student named Baabak, who suffers from leukaemia, falls in love with Parvaneh. They have a good time together for a while, until she hears about Baabak's disease and decides to send him abroad for medical treatment.
Googoosh: Live Concert-Niavaran Palace
Googoosh: Live Concert-Niavaran Palace -Oct 31,1977
Nazanin
Nayyer
Nayyerr is an orphan girl who is taken care of by her old aunt Effat, and she is pregnant by a young man named Morteza. Morteza is a young man who has evaded military service many times and his term of service has been extended. He escapes from service again and goes to his hometown Anzali, and after learning about the problem of Nayyer, he persuades her to have an abortion.
Honeymoon
Minoo
Reza and his mother Mah Banu, have a good and near relationship with Hossein family known as Khan Baba. Reza spends his time with Changiz, the son of Hossein family, and is interested in his sister, Mino.
Mamal Amricayi
Nasrin
A Young guy (Behrouz Vossoughi) who is dreaming to go to America is trying to manage the money by stealing it, then one day he meets a wealthy girl (Gogoosh).
Fellow Traveler
Atefeh
A wealthy man who has a company deceive a naive girl Atefeh (Gogoosh) who thinks he wants to marry her. Atefeh goes to the north of Iran to find the wealthy man. Her father gives Ali (Behrouz Vossoughi) 70000 Tomans to go and returns her back home but a romance is merge between the two youngsters.
Night of Foreigners
Reza
Siamak is a thief who is working for Abbas Khalkoob. He lives with his gambler friend Taghi in a rented room. One day Siamak pick pocket a guy in the bus but Reza (Gogoosh) steals it from him. This leads these two to know each other and fall in love. Siamak brings Reza who is sick to his home to take care of him. Until they decide to steal from a company's safe which put them in troubles with Abbas and his gang.
Bita
Bita
Hajir Darioush's first and last commercially successful film, "Bita" is about a young woman's struggle to come to terms with social barriers facing her, starring Googoosh.
Retaliation
Homaye saadat
Playback Singer
The film is based in Tehran, Iran. The lead character, Aarun falls in love with a beautiful dancer Shirin. Due to her dubious profession, Aarun and his brother Naseer decide to lie about her origins to their mother. Unfortunately, she finds out the truth and forbids Shirin from marrying her son. Aarun, believing Shirin has changed her mind and refused to marry him, is angered and marries another woman, Nazneen. Only Naseer knows the truth of why Shirin refused to marry Aarun. Years later, Aarun and Nazneen's son, Romil, becomes best friends with a fatherless boy, Razzaq, who invites Aarun to his home. When Aarun goes to his house, he finds out that Razzaq is his and Shirin's own son. Following the death of Nazneen, Aarun finally manages to convince his mother to accept Razzaq as her grandson, and Shirin as his wife.
The Window
Leili
Sohrab is going from his city Abadan to work in his uncle's factory in Tehran. Sohrab meets a girl Taraneh who is pregnant. She with the help of Asghar Zhila wants to accused Sohrab of ...
The Wedding Commotion
Fereshteh / Shirin
A rich and fun-loving young man named Farrokh meets a singer girl named Fereshteh and falls in love with her and it is revealed that there is also a twin girl who looks like her.
Sunrise
Setare-ye haft-asemoon
Narges
Two young men, commit robbery, and during an accident, they encounter a man who is disappointed and frustrated with life, who intends to commit suicide.
Ce divane
Parvaneh
The three friends try to help Parvaneh, a young naive girl to face her uncle and his plans to kill her and take her fortune.
Beggars of Tehran
A 1966 film directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin
Elephant and cup
Shaaban goes to Tehran from Shiraz to work, and meets Fereshte in the filming studio...
Hossein Kord Shabestari
Hossein Kord Shabestari, the shepherd of Sardar Masih Khan ...
FRIENDSHIP THE DOCUMENTARY
Self
Only true friendship can live through a revolution, witness a war, and survive exile. This documentary is about a cultural icon (Googoosh) and her friendship with a legendary singer (Martik). Both banned and exiled, yet still on stage, and still at their peak. The story of how Friendship made a nation of immigrants feel at home.