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به ياد دلکش بانوی آواز ایران The legendary Delkash

دلکش (عصمت باقرپور) و صدای جاودانه اش، از خاطره ها نخواهد رفت.

او در بابل ، در بين خانواد اى با ده فرزند متولد شد. بعد از فوت پدر در دوازده سالگى، براى تحصيل به طهران رفت وبا خواهرش زندگى كرد، بعد از پنج سال تحصيل، توسط (ظهيرى) معلم موسيقى مدرسه، به راديو برده شد وبه استاد خالقى معرفى شد وتوسط استاد وزيرى آموزش موسيقى گرفت. با ترانه هاى گيلكى و مازندرانى كار خود را آغاز كرد و سپس به راديو و سينما راه يافت.

نام دلکش را مرحوم روح الله خالقى به او داد. پرویز یاحقی می گوید ایشان یکی از صداهای استثنایی در موسیقی ایران بود.

از سال هزار و سيصد و پنجاه و هفت به بعد، توسط جمهورى اسلامى از خواندن و فعاليت هاى هنرى محروم شد.

بعد از بيست سال سكوت، در سالن ملكه ايزابت در شهر لندن براى اولين بار براى طرفدارانش كه از سراسر دنيا به ديدارش شتافته بودند حرف زد،

و تكيه بر عصا، آواز خواند و غم سنگين بيست سال محروميت و سكوتش را در يك جمله جانسوز بيان كرد:

ما همه با هم، پير شديم.

بامداد روز پنجشنبه، شهريور سال هزار و سيصد و هشتاد و سه- بانو دلکش در سن 80 سالگی در بیمارستان ایرانمهر طهران در گذشت.

روانش شاد، يادش گرامى

People like Delkash may not be among us today, but they never really die.

Delkash (Esmat Bagherpour) was an an Iranian female singer,actress, singing in Persian and the local Iranian languages of Gilaki and Mazandarani.

She was born in the Caspian town of Babol , and was the daugher of a cotton trader who had twelve other children. She came to Tehran to study, but she was discovered soon and was introduced to the music masters of the time, Ruhollah Khaleghi and Abdolali Vaziri. She was named Delkash by Vaziri.

Her distinctive voice and acting style helped ensure the popularity of Iran's nascent cinema in the 1940s.

Delkash started public singing in 1943 and was employed in Radio Iran in 1945 , only five years after the establishment of the program. There, she worked with the composer Mehdi Khaledi for seven years, until1952 , which made them both very famous.

Delkash sings of innocent love, of nostalgia and of her home town.

She has also worked as a song writer under the pen name of Niloofar (نیلوفر) and has played in a few Iranian movies, including Sharmsaar, Maadar, Afsoungar, and Dasiseh.

She have been banned from performing in public in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

A pioneering Iranian actress and singer, Delkash, appeared in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of a European tour which brought her back to the stage for the first time in almost twenty years (October 1998,London)-New York 1999..

The very appearance of the diminutive, hunchbacked woman leaning on a stick provoked a standing ovation from her nostalgic admirers.

"We have aged together," she said wryly to a packed hall of over a thousand Iranians. Once she sat down p- she could not perform standing-- she was in her element. Traces of a versatile and powerful voice gradually re-emerged.

She has never been political. But her very presence in a London concert hall, after twenty years of silence, spoke volumes to her admirers.The electrified audience wanted more, and she obliged.

Before her death, she was living with her son, Soheil Fozounmayeh.

Delkash died in 2004, at the age of 80, in the Mehr Hospital of Tehran, Iran.