Club-friendly pop music made in L.A. took on new potency abroad. “The official culture in Iran in the '80s was very sorrowful because of the war, and Shiite Islam was very oriented towards mourning.
Iranian pop singer and songwriter Shervin Hajipour on Sunday won the first Grammy Award for Best Song for Social Change for his song “Baraye” which has become the unofficial anthem of the wave of ...
In April 2007, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain stood onstage during a primary campaign stop in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, blew his nose, and fielded a question about sending “an ...
Six young Iranians have been arrested for dancing to the Oscar-nominated hit in a viral YouTube video that was deemed vulgar and "hurt public chastity." By Chris Payne, Billboard Pharrell Williams ...