In 2000, Faegheh Atashin was able to leave Iran and perform in Canada, where she discovered that the decades of enforced ...

Iranian pop icon Googoosh urged U.S. President Donald Trump to take urgent action, warning thousands have died amid ...

An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced tattooed pop star Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death for blasphemy. The 37-year-old singer has been in detention in Iran since December 2023 ...

Prior to the 1979 revolution, Iranian singer and actor Googoosh was a pop superstar. But she was jailed by the Islamic Republic and forced to agree to never sing or perform in public.

An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced controversial pop star Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, also known as Tataloo, to death after he was found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. “The Supreme ...

Nazanin Nour, an actress in Los Angeles, has gone viral for her video advocating for Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, who faces a prison sentence for lyrics in his Grammy-winning song. Nour's latest ...

Iranian pop star Shervin Hajipour's protest anthem "Baraye" won him the Grammy Award for Best Song For Social Change last year — KEVIN WINTER An Iranian appeals court has halved the prison sentence ...

The new album "Tehrangeles Vice" is a daring collection of Iranian disco and synthpop recorded in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. The term Tehrangeles refers to the Iranian American diaspora in ...

All over Los Angeles, Zachary Asdourian hunted for the music of an Iran that could have been. The co-founder of the L.A. record label Discotchari scoured for dust-caked Persian pop records at Jordan ...

An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced tattooed pop star Amir Hossein Salehi, better known as Tataloo, to death for blasphemy. The 37-year-old musician has been in detention in Iran since December ...