Biography
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Born
22 March 1924
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Born In
Tehran, Tehrān, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Died
13 October 2010 (aged 86)
Marzieh / مرضیه (born in 1926 in Tehran, died on 13 October 2010 in Paris), was a singer of Persian traditional music. Known as the first lady of Persian music, she has been one of the most outstanding figures the artistic society of Iran has ever witnessed. Marzieh has touched the hearts of millions of people by her lovely performances and songs that will be whispered forever. As long as music exists, Marzieh will be remembered and highly respected at the horizons of the music world of Iran. She has enormous number of songs and almost all of them seem familiar to the Iranians. She has spoken on behalf of every single person who had something to whisper. Like other ladies in Iran, she became silent in 1979 and no longer appeared on any stages of her homeland to sing for her people. In 1990s, she left Iran due to her political ideas and joined one of the anti-Iranian government organizations abroad.
Soon after she left the country, she performed several concerts in Los Angeles, California (1995), and later in Earl's Court London, England (1996), as well as in some other places where multitudes of people from different backgrounds, beliefs, religions, and nationalities gathered and joined in friendship and peace to remember those days of old age in Iran once more. They loved to hear her voice live again and Marzieh made their dreams come true at such an old age.
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