Hayedeh

Ma'soumeh Dadehbala, known professionally as Hayedeh, was born on April 10, 1942 in Tehran, Iran. She began her professional career in 1968 as a singer on the Persian traditional music program "Golhâye Rangârang" at Radio Tehran. Her first official hit was "Azadeh", composed by Ali Tajvidi with lyrics by Rahi Moayeri. In the 1970s, Hayedeh expanded her repertoire to include Persian pop music and collaborated with notable songwriters such as Fereydoun Khoshnoud and Jahanbakhsh Pazouki. Following Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, she immigrated first to the United Kingdom and then to the United States in 1982. Hayedeh continued her career, releasing successful albums with Caltex Records. On January 20, 1990, Hayedeh died from a heart attack in San Francisco, California. Her funeral was attended by thousands of fans, and she was buried at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.