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Shusha Guppy
THE GUARDIAN: Shusha Guppy, who has died aged 72, was one of the most talented women of her generation - a writer, singer and composer of songs, who moved freely among intellectual elites and made a home for herself in three radically different cultures. Born in Tehran, she was the daughter of Mohammad Kazem Assar, the distinguished Shia theologian and philosopher, who held the chair of philosophy at Tehran University, and who remained a model to Shusha throughout her life>>>
Here's an excerpt from an for a documentary film about the life of Khayyam.
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Singer of 3 cultures
by Asita on Fri Mar 28, 2008 03:43 PM CDThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/seventhday/story/2008...
A few words about Shusha
by Asita on Fri Mar 28, 2008 08:39 AM CDThttp://www.jadidonline.com/story/03262008/shusha_o...
Great Loss
by Darius KADIVAR on Tue Mar 25, 2008 06:16 AM CDTShusha Guppy was also behind the music score for the first Iranian co production to be Nominated for the Oscars in the mid 70's entitled "People of the Wind" which was about the yearly migration of the Bakhtiary Tribes in Iran across the mountains of Zardeh Kuh. The film was narrated by James Mason and was made as a tribute to the classic documentary by Merian C. Cooper made 70 years earlier called Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. Cooper was one of the creators of the film King Kong and was to become an important producer in Hollywood discovering such greats as John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn when they started off in the film profession.
So sad that Mrs. Guppy passed away at a relatively young age. She had alot to give and the Iranian Diaspora culture owes her alot too.
Shusha as a singer!
by Asita on Tue Mar 25, 2008 04:36 AM CDTشوشا خواننده بسیار پر توانی بود که ترانه های زیبای محلی ایرانی
را به شیوه متفاوت و مدرنی اجرا کرده بود.
کاست شوشا در سالهای میانی دهه ۵۰ ایران
بخصوص در میان جوانترها خیلی محبوب بود و من هنوز هم با شنیدن صدایش به آن روزها
برمیگردم.
به نوعی پذیرفتن اینکه آن صدای لطیف شفاف ودلنشین دیگر نمیخواند برایم
سخت است
Oops...How come I had never heard of her?
by Azarin Sadegh on Mon Mar 24, 2008 05:41 PM CDTI wonder how come I missed to know this writer...
I found a link to A girl in Paris on Amazon, where I could search inside the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1845113802/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Azarin
Has anyone read her "A girl in Paris"?
by seriously baffled (not verified) on Mon Mar 24, 2008 05:15 PM CDTIt's the most dreadfully embarrassingly self-gratulatory drivel I've ever been subjected to.
I can't for the life of me understand why this woman was hailed as anywhere near intellectual.
More tributes ...
by Nader_ (not verified) on Mon Mar 24, 2008 03:06 PM CDTPlease see the Independent's obituary below:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/shush...
as well as my earlier post on this site:
http://www.iranian.com/main/node/22113
There is also a collection of Shusha's folkloric songs on this site.
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