Giti Pashaei Tehrani ( fa, گیتی پاشایی تهرانی; sometimes spelt Giti Pashayi; June 13, 1940 – May 7, 1995) was an Iranian singer and musician. Pashaei was one of the most popular Iranian singers of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Giti Pashaei was born on June 13, 1940, in

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. She inherited her passion for music from her grandfather, Jafar Mansoori, who was known as a poet and musician. Her early life was spent attending the master-classes of such musicians as

Faramarz Payvar Master Farâmarz Pâyvar ( fa, فرامرز پایور, ; 10 February 1933 – 9 December 2009) was an Iranian composer and santur player. Payvar died on 9 December 2009 after a long struggle with brain damage. Although once perceived as marg ...

and Mehdi Forough. She continued her education in

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, where she obtained a diploma in

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and also studied orchestration and harmony and became a composer. In 1979,

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put an end to her singing career. Women were forbidden to sing in public. Later on, she composed many soundtracks for Iranian movies after the revolution in 1979. As a composer, most of the time she worked with her husband

Masoud Kimiai Masoud Kimiai (or Masoud Kimiaei, fa, مسعود کیمیایی, born 29 July 1941) is an Iranian director, screenwriter and producer. Biography Kimiai started his career as an assistant director and made his debut, ''Come Stranger'', in 19 ...

, a film director, whom she married in 1969.

Personal life

Giti married to

, an Iranian film director, in 1969. In the late 1980s, she moved to

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, where she researched Western Church and

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. The couple separated in 1991, and have a son Poulad Kimiayi, a pianist, who was born on 14 July in 1980. She died of

breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...

on 7 May 1995. Her songs and compositions are still heard abroad.

Works

Discography

*''Miravam & Ye Del Daraam'' (1969) *''Be Man Nakhand & Nemikham Doroogh Begi'' (1969) *''Tasbih-e Sad Dooneh & Gol-e Maryam'' (1971) *''Shadi Ba Man Ghahre & Rizeh Rizeh, (album, Persian, 1971) *''Ki Migeh Donya Ghashange & Heyfe Harf-e Mano Del Tamoom Besheh'' (1972) *''Mageh Mano Khaab Bebini & Ey Vaay Ey Vaay'' (1973) *''Arezooha'' (1976) *''Ghoroobe & Khoda Mehrabooneh'' (1976) ;Memorable songs *''Gol-e Maryam'' *''Molana'' *''Shirin Sokhan'' *''Bot-e Ayyar'' *''Lili Hozak'' *''Kaniz''

Compilation

* ''Arezooha'' (1995) * ''Gole Maryam'' (1996) * ''Rangarang: Pre-revolutionary Iranian Pop'' (2011, as co-artist)

Filmography

;as actor *''

Safar sang Ṣafar ( ar, صَفَر) also spelt as Safer in Turkish, is the second month of the lunar Islamic calendar. The Arabic word ''ṣafar'' means "travel, migration", corresponding to the pre-Islamic Arabian time period when muslims flee the oppr ...

'' (''The Journey of the Stone'', 1978), as Fatemeh ;as composer * ''Blade and Silk'' (1986) * ''Tigh o abrisham'' (1987) * ''Sorb'' (''The Lead'', 1989), as Giti Pashayi * ''The Snake Fang'' (1989) * ''Goroohban'' (''The Sergeant'', 1991), as Giti Pashayi

References

External links

* * * 1948 births 1995 deaths Singers from Tehran 20th-century Iranian women singers Iranian women pop singers Iranian film score composers 20th-century women composers Deaths from cancer in Iran Deaths from breast cancer Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra {{Iran-singer-stub