Googoosh

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Faegheh Atashin (born 5 May 1950), known professionally as Googoosh, is an Iranian singer and former actress. Regarded as a pop icon, she is one of the most popular and prolific entertainers in Iran, and her career has spanned over six decades. Googoosh has enjoyed significant popularity since the beginning of her career, ultimately becoming a cultural icon inside Iran and abroad. She is mainly known for her contributions to Iranian pop music, but she also starred in a variety of Persian movies from the 1950s to the 1970s. She achieved the pinnacle of her fame and success towards the end of the 1970s. In the 1970s, Googoosh was widely emulated by Iranian women, as they copied her clothing (miniskirts) and her short haircut (known as the "Googooshi"). Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, she remained in Tehran until 2000 and did not perform again during that period due to Iran's ban on female singers. Younger generations of Iranians have rediscovered her music via bootleg recordings....

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