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Letter from Spanish Googoosh fan
Hello. I am Nika Sancho from Spain. I know a
lot about your country and I always read your magazine on the net. I
see that you have a big disussion going on around your Pop diva,
Googoosh. I don't know how much you welcome the idea of one starnger
interfering with your national matters but I can't wait no more and
I would like to tell you my experiences with this lady. (Excuse my
terrible English)
The one and only reason that I became interested in Iran was the Iranian legendary singer, Googoosh. I saw her CDs in London back in 1989. The name Googoosh had a very strange music and I bought two CDs and took them home. When I put them on I could hardly believe my ears. The songs that I couldn't read their titles and understand even one single word of them, touched my heart in places where have never been touched before (Bavar, Manoto, Komakam kon).
For the first few weeks I thought that she was from some Arab country. But soon I found her nationality. I traveled to Iran in 1995 and saw the greatness of her legend. I had no idea of the conditions in there so I encountered a different country from the picture. I had read about in the papers. Warm and friendly people, over-crowded cities, delicious food (especially the one called jojo kebab). I was so simple minded that I asked the desk clerk to find out Googoosh's fan club for me. He laughed at me. I still remember the young girl called Poory who sang Googoosh songs for me. One of her standards was "poshte divaridelam". When I heard about Googoosh's comeback on the net I was shocked and couldn't belive it. But then it became serious and and she performed in Canada and then I bought a $250 ticket and watched her at the Great Western Forum in LA. She was exactly what I had thought she would be. Beautiful, well-dressed, and her voice, ah her voice. I never knew she had such a wonderful voice. Her voice had the greatness of Streisand and her personality was unmatched.
She could make me cry and laugh without understanding one single word of her speech. I cried and danced and cried again with the people there. Sometimes I just search for her name in Yahoo or Google and that's why I got to know iranian.com. I don't know why she has become so much dear to you Iranians, I know it has something to do with the past. But for me it is just the passion in her voice and the light of her eyes. I also know that there are factions inside the Iranian government who dislike her and some people abroad who think she is an agent, but believe me, a true artist can never be an agent and she is definitely a genuine artist. I have a collection of her pics and I send you one that I like most. Truly yours,
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