A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

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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 ...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Googoosh was one of Iran’s most famous women, a child star who grew up to become a bona fide pop culture phenomenon. She released hit albums, starred in acclaimed films ...

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 ...

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 ...