Giti Pashaei Tehrani (; sometimes spelt Giti Pashayi; June 13, 1940 – May 7, 1995) was an Iranian singer and musician. Pashaei was one of the most popular Iranian singers of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Giti Pashaei was born on June 13, 1940, in

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. She inherited her passion for music from her grandfather, Jafar Mansoori, who was known as a poet and musician. Her early life was spent attending the master-classes of such musicians as Faramarz Payvar and Mehdi Forough. She continued her education in

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, where she obtained a diploma in

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and also studied orchestration and harmony and became a composer. In 1979,

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put an end to her singing career. Women were forbidden to sing in public. Later on, she composed many soundtracks for Iranian movies after the revolution in 1979. As a composer, most of the time she worked with her husband

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, a film director, whom she married in 1969.

Personal life

Giti married to

, an Iranian film director, in 1969. In the late 1980s, she moved to

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, where she researched

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and

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. The couple separated in 1991, and have a son Poulad Kimiayi, a

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, who was born on 14 July in 1980. She died of

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on 7 May 1995. Her songs and compositions are still heard abroad.

Works

Discography

*''Miravam'' (1969) *''Ye Del Dāram'' (1969) *''Be Man Nakhand'' (1969) *''Nemikhām Dorough Begi'' (1969) *''Tasbih-e Sad-Douneh'' (1971) *''Gol-e Maryam'' (1971) *''Shādi Bā Man Ghahr-eh'' (1971) *''Rizeh-Rizeh'' (album, 1971) *''Ki Migeh Donyā Ghashang-eh'' (1972) *''Heyf-eh Harf-e Man-o Del Tamoum Besheh'' (1972) *''Mageh Man-o Khāb Bebini'' (1973) *''Ey Vāy Ey Vāy'' (1973) *''Ārezou-hā'' (1976) *''Ghorou-eh'' (1976) *''Khodā Mehraboun-eh'' (1976) ;Memorable songs *"Gol-e Maryam" *"Mowlānā" *"Shirin-Sokhan" *"Bot-e Ayyār" *"Lili Howzak" *"Kaniz"

Compilation

* ''Arezooha'' (1995) * ''Gole Maryam'' (1996) * ''Rangarang: Pre-revolutionary Iranian Pop'' (2011, as co-artist)

Filmography

;as actor *''

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'' (''The Journey of the Stone'', 1978), as Fatemeh ;as composer * ''Blade and Silk'' (1986) * ''Tigh o abrisham'' (1987) * ''Sorb'' (''The Lead'', 1989), as Giti Pashayi * ''The Snake Fang'' (1989) * ''Goroohban'' (''The Sergeant'', 1991), as Giti Pashayi

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* * * 1940 births 1995 deaths Singers from Tehran 20th-century Iranian women singers Iranian women pop singers Iranian film score composers 20th-century women composers Deaths from cancer in Iran Deaths from breast cancer Burials at artist's block of Behesht-e Zahra Persian-language singers of Iran {{Iran-singer-stub