Giti Pashaei

Education

She continued her education in New York, where she obtained a diploma in architecture and also studied orchestration and harmony and became a composer.

Career

Her name, Giti, means world in original Pahlavi. Her early life was spent attending the master-classes of such musicians as Faramarz Payvar, Mehdi Forough and Mahmoud Karimi. Giti was one of the most popular Iranian singers of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The Iranian Revolution put an end to her singing career in 1979.

Women were forbidden to sing in public. Later on she composed many sound tracks for Iranian movies after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

In the late 1980s, she moved to Hamburg, Germany, where she researched Western Church and Baroque music She died of cancer in Tehran on 7 May 1995.

Her songs and compositions are still heard abroad, particularly in Greece, Syria and Azerbaijan.

Achievements

• She became famous with her song "Gol-e Maryam" (The Maria Flower).