Hayedeh

Hayedeh (April 10, 1942 - Jan. 20, 1990) was an Iranian singer of Persian classical and pop music. She was active for more than two decades and is considered as one of the most popular singers of 20th-century. Her professional career began in 1968 as a singer on a Persian traditional music Tehran Radio program In the 1970s Hayedah added Persian pop music to her classical Persian repertoire. In this period Hayedeh worked with several songwriters, such as فریدون خشنود (Fereydoun Khoshnoud), جهانبخش پازوکی (Jahanbakhsh Pazouki), انوشیروان روحانی (Anoushiravan Rohani) and... On August 29, 1978, shortly before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Hayedeh immigrated to the United Kingdom. She stayed there for three years and moved to the United States in 1982 to continue her career. On January 20, 1990, some hours after a concert at the Casablanca Club in San Francisco, California, Hayedeh died from a heart attack at the age of 47. She was the sister of Mahasti (Mahasti)