Googoosh with Nazanin Boniadi

Schedule

Thu Dec 04 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:15 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar | Los Angeles, CA

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Googoosh in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi discussing her memoir, "Googoosh: A Sinful Voice."
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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:


Thursday, December 4, 2025, 8pm

*Virtual event airs on December 11 at 6pm PT/9pm ET


Googoosh with Nazanin Boniadi

discussing her memoir, "Googoosh: A Sinful Voice"


TICKETS:

  • $50 General Admission ticket + book with signed book plate
  • $75 Two General Admisison tickets + ONE book with signed book plate
  • Additional books with sigend book plates available for purchase at event
  • The virtual version of this event airs on December 11, 2025, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a sigend book
  • Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)
  • ASL interpreter provided upon request.
  • Free parking at the venue

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.


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Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, United States

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