Esmat Bagherpour Baboli (Farsi:
عصمت باقرپور بابلی), better known as Delkash (Farsi:
دلکش, February 26, 1925 – September 2, 2004) was an Iranian singer, songwriter, and actress who achieved major popularity in Iran during the 20th century as a performer of
Iranian classical music, both in Persian and the local Iranian language of Mazandarani. She was born in Babol, and was the daughter of a cotton trader who had twelve other children. She came to Tehran to study, but was discovered for her talents soon after and was introduced to the music masters of the time,
Ruhollah Khaleghi and…
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