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Vigen was Iran’s first male pop star. He was known as “the Sultan of pop,” and one of the first entertainers in the country to perform with a guitar in the 1950s and 1960s.♥️
He introduced Western pop music to a land dominated, until then, by traditional singers, ushering in a revolution that coincided with the emergence of a Westernized middle class. His melodies were pleasing to large sections of the Iranian population because he sang meaningful and enduring lyrics inspired by the lives of ordinary people.
The singer passed away of cancer in 2003 at the age of 73. One of his last wishes, best expressed in his song, Avazeh-Khan-e Mardom (People’s Entertainer), was to be allowed back into Iran to perform.
“Vigen’s works were in fact a prologue for a new type of music just taking root in Iran,” writes Encyclopedia Iranica. “Up to that time, most Persian songs merely talked of candles, flowers, butterflies, etc., and described virtual loves, imaginary paramours, the pains of separation from the beloved, the bitterness of one’s misfortunes, and the miseries of one’s vile destiny.”
His songs “were deeply influenced by the rising tide of change in modern Persian poetry, replacing the traditional gloomy descriptions and interpretations with new and mirthful content derived from the loves of common people and expressed in colloquial language, while at the same time drawing on the rhythm of Persian rhythmic songs.”
Born Vigen Derderian in 1929 into a relatively poor Armenian family of eight children in the western city of Hamadan, Vigen was raised by his older brother after losing his father at the age of 7. Another brother, the poet Karo Derderian, would later write the lyrics to one of his signature songs, Lala’ee (Lullaby).
#Vigen
#ویگن
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Vigen was Iran’s first male pop star. He was known as “the Sultan of pop,” and one of the first entertainers in the country to perform with a guitar in the 1950s and 1960s.♥️
He introduced Western pop music to a land dominated, until then, by traditional singers, ushering in a revolution that coincided with the emergence of a Westernized middle class. His melodies were pleasing to large sections of the Iranian population because he sang meaningful and enduring lyrics inspired by the lives of ordinary people.
The singer passed away of cancer in 2003 at the age of 73. One of his last wishes, best expressed in his song, Avazeh-Khan-e Mardom (People’s Entertainer), was to be allowed back into Iran to perform.
“Vigen’s works were in fact a prologue for a new type of music just taking root in Iran,” writes Encyclopedia Iranica. “Up to that time, most Persian songs merely talked of candles, flowers, butterflies, etc., and described virtual loves, imaginary paramours, the pains of separation from the beloved, the bitterness of one’s misfortunes, and the miseries of one’s vile destiny.”
His songs “were deeply influenced by the rising tide of change in modern Persian poetry, replacing the traditional gloomy descriptions and interpretations with new and mirthful content derived from the loves of common people and expressed in colloquial language, while at the same time drawing on the rhythm of Persian rhythmic songs.”
Born Vigen Derderian in 1929 into a relatively poor Armenian family of eight children in the western city of Hamadan, Vigen was raised by his older brother after losing his father at the age of 7. Another brother, the poet Karo Derderian, would later write the lyrics to one of his signature songs, Lala’ee (Lullaby).
#Vigen
#ویگن
💎 @iranyarannetwork1398