37 Facts About Googoosh

Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming a cultural icon inside Iran and abroad.

Googoosh is mainly known for her contributions to Iranian pop music, but she starred in a variety of Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Googoosh achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s.

Googoosh has a significant following outside of Iran and has even received the attention of European and African media and press.

Googoosh was born as Faegheh Atashin on 5 May 1950, in Tehran, to Azerbaijani parents who emigrated from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union.

Googoosh was quickly called "Googoosh", an Armenian name normally exclusively used for boys but which became her stage name.

Googoosh began her career at a very young age as a singer and dancer working in the stage shows of her father, Saber, a cabaret artist and acrobat.

Googoosh's music ranged from upbeat 1960s and 1970s pop, given a traditional-tinged edge, to declamatory, emotional ballads dealing with love and loss, comparable to the chanson style of music by artists like Edith Piaf.

Googoosh starred in over 25 movies, one of which was to be the most commercially successful Iranian motion picture of all time.

Googoosh performed many times for the royal family and was a favorite of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's wife and children.

Googoosh performed at the party given for the 17th birthday of Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran.

At the time of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Googoosh was in Los Angeles.

Googoosh did not perform again until Mohammad Khatami's presidency, during which she was allowed to tour outside of the country.

Googoosh left Iran and went to Canada in 2000, after being in Iran for 21 years following the Iranian Revolution.

Googoosh released her first album after her comeback called Zartosht in 2000 with lyrics by Masoud Kimiaei and composed and arranged by Babak Amini and Babak Bayat.

In 2000, Googoosh sang in public, away from her homeland, for the first time after 21 years of silence to the acclaim of many long-time fans.

The Googoosh Comeback Tour was a series of concerts starting in July 2000.

Googoosh began with a sold-out concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on 29 July 2000, and eventually brought the tour to a conclusion in Dubai on 21 and 24 March 2001 on the occasion of the Iranian New Year, Nowruz.

In December 2010, Googoosh held a very notable concert in the Kurdish region of Iraq, to which tens of thousands of Iranians came from Tehran and beyond.

In 2010, Googoosh ran a Persian talent competition show called Googoosh Music Academy.

Googoosh said: "I have tried to have works from different composers and songwriters in this new album".

Googoosh released her old song Mano Gonjeshkaye Khooneh with a new arrangement by Babak Amini in this album.

In March 2011, Googoosh released a snippet of a new song she was working on, titled Bedrood, via YouTube.

In 2012, Googoosh released her 6th studio album since her comeback, titled Ejaz.

Googoosh collaborated with Alireza Afkari and Roozbeh Bemani on three songs.

Googoosh stated that she felt inspired by the lyrics and therefore created her own melody and was finally presented with the opportunity to record it as she had long hoped to do.

Googoosh started a joint world tour with Ebi with the same name, in which each of them sang some solo songs and some songs together.

On 21 March 2015, Googoosh released her 7th album titled Aks-e Khosoosi including 11 tracks from different songwriters and composers such as Babak Sahraee, Nickan Ebrahimi, Babak Amini.

In 2017, Googoosh started a world tour called "The Memory Makers" with Hassan Shamaizadeh and Ardalan Sarfraz.

In 2018, Googoosh released a single song in collaboration with Martik called Refaghat, and after positive feedback, she collaborated with Martik in two other songs called Eshghe Kamyab and Asheghet Hastam.

Googoosh released her last album named Twenty One in 2021 with the composition of Siavash Ghomayshi and the lyrics of Raha Etamadi.

On 14 September 2023, Googoosh published a video on her official pages in the social media, in which she announced that her new tour is her last world tour and a farewell tour.

Googoosh has three half-brothers on her father's side and a brother and sister on her mother's side.

In 1980, Googoosh was imprisoned for nearly one month after the Iranian Revolution.

In 1975, Googoosh married Iranian actor Behrouz Vossoughi; they divorced fourteen months later in 1976.

Googoosh acted in two other movies: Mard-e keraye-i and Hajji Firuz, but the production of each of these films was suspended during the final stages for unknown reasons.

Googoosh has acted in many television shows and commercials in Iran.