- Words Hooman Majd
- Photos Luke Lovell
- Styling Tana Grossberg
- Hair Kelly Peach
- Makeup Omayma Ramzy
- Producer Alicia Zumback
- Set Design Romain Goudinoux
A rare audience with the queen of Persian pop.
It’s a sunny but unusually cold winter morning and Googoosh is sitting next to a heater at a desk off of her living room, wearing a turtleneck under a zip-up sweater. She is at her longtime home in Bel Air, in the hills above Los Angeles. One of her two Pomeranians is in her lap; her golden retriever is lurking in the background. We greet each other in Farsi before settling into a conversation in English, with just the occasional Farsi word thrown in.