In Iran, a wave of arrests and harassment of women singers has swept the music industry. Some artists have found some fame by releasing music on social media. Authorities are tracking them down, too.

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

One of Iran's most famous singers of traditional Persian music has cancelled his tour of Europe due to the ongoing protests ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates(AP) — For Googoosh, Iran's most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or another. It began as a child, performing with her acrobat father who ...

When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home before long. At 29, he’d already established himself as an innovative force in ...