Background
Her parents were both from Iraq, her mother was Jeni and her father Paulus Khofri, was one of the famous Assyrian composers, and also maestro and painter.
Her parents were both from Iraq, her mother was Jeni and her father Paulus Khofri, was one of the famous Assyrian composers, and also maestro and painter.
Marganita "Maggie" Vogt-Khofri is an Assyrian classical musician and vocalist, born in Kermanshah, Iran in 1952. Khofri is also a volunteer social activist and works for Karitas, a division of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Switzerland which helping people of the Middle-East such as Iranian, Kurdish and Assyrian people to request refuge and immigration. She went to Tehran Conservatory of and then moved to the United States to complete high school.
She was selected as a folkloric representative by the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Arts to participate in the Arts Festival at the Folkloric and Dances of Worldwide Nations in Cannes, France.
Vogt-Khofri as a member of the Assyrian Folkloric Dancing Ensemble is also a folk dancer.