Ocean of Emotion
Googoosh songs and splendid voice
manage to invade my very heart and mind
Iyad Reem
March 8, 2005
iranian.com unedited
Dear Lady, Dearest Diva, Most Splendid Voice,
Prettiest Face, Dearest GOOGOOSH,
I'm not crazy enough to believe that amongst
all that flood of get-well-soon messages from the millions of your
fans around the world, these modest lines of mine will have the
chance and the privilege of being read by your own beautiful eyes.
Yet, I'll proceed with them as if you are reading them. As I'm
writing them, your splendid voice is resounding in my house, singing
one of my favorite songs of yours, "Ayeryligh", and God knows all of
your songs are my favorites.
Dearest Diva,
Please grant me the honor of presenting myself
to you. My name is Iyad, a Jordanian man 45 years old, who
discovered you Diva at a very young age, almost 17, and has ever
since been fascinated by both your beauty and the splendor of your
voice. That was in the late seventies, while you were on a visit to
Jordan. I still remember you were the guest of honor on a Jordanian
TV show, you performed some of your songs. you even sang a song of
our Fairouz, "Zoroni koli sana mara haram tensuni belmara" which won
the admiration of the Jordanian public. Ever since your beautiful
image and your sublime voice became printed in my mind. I tried hard
to find any album of yours to no avail.
Few years later, and to be precise, in late
1979, I left to France to continue my higher education. There I had
the chance of getting to know an Iranian girl, we studied French
together. I remember among the very first things I asked her about
was, GOOGOOOSH. The next day she was kind enough to offer me a
cassette of yours. On it there were some of your very nice and
highly romantic songs like "Daryeyee", "Manam", "Ayeryligh" and
others. (Few lines below you'll learn, Dearest Diva, how I managed
at last to write the titles of your songs correctly).
I kept playing the cassette over and over
again in my flat and very loud, I admit, until a French lady, a
neighbor of mine, asked me one day ( and I still remember her very
words), "who is that lady with a nice voice you keep listening to?"
I gave her the cassette to listen to, but couldn't separate myself
from it for more than 2 days. Needless to say you won her admiration
too.
Long years, almost 14, passed by like a thief,
I returned to Jordan, the cassette got tired from my playing it
repetitively ,but not my ears,and how can they ever get tired of
listening to the angelic voice of the Diva???!!! Both during my
happy moments and whenever I feel down I find refuge in your songs.
Your voice and your songs have become inseparably associated with
past happy moments of my life. Whenever I listen to them they simply
bring back to me very happy souvenirs I dearly cherish until this
day.
Although I don’t understand a single word of
Farsi, still your songs and splendid voice manage to invade the very
heart and mind of me, and make me react, oftentimes with tears in my
eyes. That is why I prefer to listen to your songs when I'm alone. I
don’t even need to know the meaning of your songs' lyrics to
appreciate the ocean of emotions you convey in them through your
angelic voice which transcends all language barriers. I would write
whole pages about this, but I'll spare you that trouble. For I know
that I've largely exceeded the reasonable amount of your time
allowed to none but one amongst millions of your fans.
So, to cut a long story short I'd say that by
inadvertence, some parts of the your songs on that cassette -- which
I still treasure after 25 long years- got erased, and you cannot
imagine how frustrated I became when I got used to being cut off
while enjoying your songs. This frustration went on for almost 9
years, I could find yr songs nowhere.
Until by pure chance I discovered the
existence of fan groups of the Diva on the internet. I bothered many
of their members (whom I should call "My sisters and brothers in
admiring and loving the Diva") by asking them to help me finding the
specific songs I had on my cassette. I found no means to help them
in that errand except by writing some couplets of each song as I
hear them. They did a very nice job. They even gave me the exact
titles of those songs, that's why I managed to mention them
correctly above. So far I managed to get back 3 of those nice songs
and I still hope to get the others soon.
Dearest Diva
I end this long letter by calling upon the
Almighty who endowed you with that lovely face and that exceptional
angelic voice, to grant you his healing. And may you stay healthy
and wealthy for decades and decades to come, and be able one day to
receive from your fans a happy 100th birthday cards instead of
get-well-messages. May the love of your fans all over the world
unite to form a healing force for you.
Get
well very soon Dearest Diva, for we
all need you to keep on singing love and romance, spreading joy and
hope wherever your voice is heard, in an era where nothing but the
sound of hatred and fanaticism is resounding. Best wishes of health
and happiness.
Your admirer for ever
Iyad
Amman/JORDAN
