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Iran’s mystery
DJ
Page 11
Q-News, Issue 361
March 2005
Behzad Bolour of Songlines Magazine,
reports that a few months ago, a young Iranian girl was spotted on the
Internet singing techno and pop songs. The trouble was nobody knew
where it came from. Soon pictures, names and sounds claiming to be her
appeared on Iranian websites. It was even rumoured that she was in
prison, awaiting execution. She became an underground sensation, but
nobody knew her true identity. Until, that is, she revealed herself to
the BBC Persian service. “The 18 year-old goes by the name of DJ
Mahshar and is from Tehran. She sings for mental health patients,”
writes Bolour. “Apparently while singing her songs in a hospital gig,
they were secretly recorded and put on the internet.” DJ Mahshar is
shocked by her popularity, which has spread to the global Iranian
community. The media in Iran has attacked her and demanded her capture
for giving “illegal private concerts.” Her father counters: “She is the
voice of Iran’s modern culture and that is no crime.” |
