Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
 
**Googoosh
in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi
discussing her memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice.”**

*This event is taped on December 4.*

VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (US Orders Only)
Thursday, December 11, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$48 Virtual Admission + book with signed book plate (includes shipping to US addresses only). Includes access to watch the event on December 11 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

Before there was Madonna or Beyoncé, there was **Googoosh**. For the first time, one of the world’s biggest pop stars of the 20th century tells her remarkable story in her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice”—her rise to fame in pre-revolution Iran, her arrest and imprisonment, her twenty-year exile, and finally, her triumphant return to the global stage.

Born Faegheh Atashin in 1950, Googoosh is Iran’s first and biggest popstar. She lives in Los Angeles.

In this lyrical and moving memoir, she takes us through her difficult upbringing in Iran’s tumultuous 1950s and ’60s to her stardom in the ’70s—and what it was like to reach the peak of her career during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Seemingly overnight, she went from being on magazine covers, at film premieres and fashion shows, and constantly on the radio, to targeted by religious clerics. What followed is a harrowing tale of oppression, intimidation, and exile.

Now, inspired by the brave women of Iran on the front lines fighting for their freedoms, Googoosh finally tells her full story, and with it, the story of a country once again on the brink.

**Nazanin Boniadi** is an Iranian-born actress and renowned human rights advocate. Her television credits include Homeland, How I Met Your Mother, and Counterpart.’On the big screen, she won acclaim for her memorable role in Bombshell and her leading role in Hotel Mumbai. As an activist, she has partnered with various charitable organizations to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on the unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women and prisoners of conscience.  Her thought leadership has been featured in major global media outlets, and her advocacy work has taken her to the halls of power around the world.