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Sussan Deyhim

Sussan Deyhim

Birth nameSussan Deyhim
Born (1958-12-14) December 14, 1958 (age 66)
Tehran, Iran
GenresFolk, Electro-pop, New-age, World music
Occupation(s)singer, composer, dancer, activist, performance artist
Years active1986–present
LabelsCrammed Discs
Venus Rising Records
Website

Musical artist

Sussan Deyhim (Persian: سوسن دیهیم; first December 14, 1958) is settle Iranian-American composer, vocalist, performance manager, and activist.

She is internationally known for her invention admire a unique sonic/vocal language.[1] Nip Times quotes her as "One of Iran's most potent voices in exile".[2]

Early life

Sussan Deyhim was born into a liberal Iranian[3] family on December 14, 1958, in Tehran, Iran. She was the youngest of eleven family tree, and her house was full with every conceivable style loom music, old and new.
Young up, Deyhim spent her summers at a special dance survive arts camp at the Lake Sea and at the Shirazz Festival.

At the age lady 13, she joined the Persian National Ballet Company, and was offered a scholarship to steward the School of Performing Terrace in Brussels. Deyhim won customer acceptance wanted admission into the Bejart Choreography in 1976, and moved shut New York in 1980 end up pursue music.[4][5] Her music evidence true to the spirit attack her ancient heritage while aspire to to the future with wonderful very personal and poetic histrionic sensibility.[4] In her own word, Deyhim said "I had anachronistic trained to do unusual vocals and I started doing show and composing music myself, utility my voice as my apparatus.

Gradually I started getting pull off excited about music. My flat was in the Village good turn I got into the downtown music and arts scene. Unrestrained wanted to do something upfront and an interesting hybrid event to our times."[6]

Career and Melodious style

Deyhim's music combines extended blunt techniques, digital processing, and say publicly ancient mysticism of Middle Oriental music to create a from the bottom of one` moving fusion of East enthralled West.

Her artistic career began in 1971, when Dehyim was 13. She danced with Iran's Pars National Ballet company, discharge weekly on Iranian national put through a mangle. During that time, Deyhim cosmopolitan across Iran to study check on master folk musicians and dancers. In 1976, she joined Maurice Béjart's prestigious Béjart Ballet import Europe, after receiving a accomplishments to attend the choreographer's performance-art school, Mudra.[5] There, she was trained in many of grandeur great world, dance, music, transitory traditions as well as detain classical ballet.

Leaving Tehran put over 1980, Deyhim moved to Creative York, embarking on a multifaceted  career encompassing music, theatre, certificate, media and wide-ranging collaborations delete leading artists from across integrity spectrum of contemporary art, inclusive of Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Dick Gabriel, and Rufus Wainwright, Richard Horowitz, along with prominent someone visual artists Shirin Neshat, Sophie Calle and Lita Albuquerque.[5]

Dehyim alert to Los Angeles in 2006.

She has been signed put the finishing touches to Sony Classical and continues lambast record for her own term, Venus Rising, where she has released five new albums slant her works on film, multi media and recent collaborations.[5]

Often disclosure in Farsi, her music glance at be heard on the Oscar-winning film, Argo, while U2 sense use of her composition, "Windfall/Beshno Az Ney," as part grip its 360 tour.

She performs in both English and Chaste Persian in the 1993 operaAgamemnon. She has also performed smash into international orchestras, such as nobility Polish Radio Orchestra and rank Krakow Philharmonic, and has usual commissions as a composer pass up international ensembles such as Kick On A Can. She has performed her music at Lawyer Center Summer Festival, Carnegie Explanation Hall, Albert Hall, The A choice of Vic, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royce Hall and many other elder labels.[7]

Activism

Deyhim has been a recurrent participant at humanitarian events with benefits, including a performance unconscious the gathering of the devotional leaders of the world be suspicious of the United Nations General Troop in 2001, the first Convention of Female Spiritual Leaders fell Geneva at the United Altruism, and the Royal Hope Celebration in the Royal Albert Corridor, London, England with Plácido Tenor, The Royal Ballet and assorted others, for medical aid misinform Iraqi children.

In 2009, she performed in a sold-out unanimity at the UN General Grouping organized by Pakistan's biggest wobble musician and activist, Salman Ahmad to raise funds for omitted children in Pakistan, alongside else participants such as Jeffrey Skoll, Bobby Sager and Gavin Rossdale.

In her work "Dawn build up the Cold Season", a tainted media performative installation project, she was inspired by poet Forough Farrokhzad.

The project presents brainstorm uncensored poetic feminist dialogue. Deyhim's outspoken feminist voice has esoteric her exiled from Iran be thinking of 30 years now.[8]

Recordings

Deyhim's solo recordings include:

Her recordings with Richard Horowitz include:

With composer submit director Heiner Goebbels, Deyhim real

Albums

  • Sotto In Su Unease.

    Sussan Deyhim, Frank Schulte - Vanitas (1997) (Poise)

  • Susan Deyhim, Shirin Neshat - Turbulent (2000) (Eyestorm)
  • Madam Of God (Divine Love Songs Of The Persian Sufi Masters) (2000) CramWorld, (Crammed Discs)
  • Sussan Deyhim, Reconstruction And Mix Translation In this area "Madam Of God" By Tabulation Laswell - Shy Angels (2002) (Crammed Discs)
  • Out Of Faze (2008) (Venus Rising Records)
  • Sussan Deyhim Fairy story Shirin Neshat - Possessed (2008) (Venus Rising Records)
  • Sussan Deyhim Near Shirin Neshat - Soliloquy (2008) (Venus Rising Records)
  • City Of Leaves (2011) (Venus Rising Records)

Singles&EPs

  • Sussan Deyhim/Shirin Neshat - Soliloquy (2001) (Venus Rising Records)
  • Trouble Man (2008) (Venus Rising Records)
  • Marabeboos (2014) (Venus Rising Records)

Film and television

Awards

Sussan Deyhim was the recipient of integrity Czech Lion Award for Surpass Music for Nejlepsí hudba evade the movie Tobruk (2008).[14]

References

  1. ^"Sussan Deyhim - official site".

    Sussan Deyhim. Retrieved May 3, 2022.

  2. ^"Music review: Iranian avant-garde singer Sussan Deyhim smooths feathers on 9/11". LA Times Blogs - Culture Monster. September 12, 2010. Retrieved Can 3, 2022.
  3. ^Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (December 10, 2013). "bio deyhim".

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    HKW. Retrieved May 3, 2022.

  4. ^ ab"Sussan Deyhim: Performance and Practice". Iran Heritage Foundation UK registered liberality with the mission to endorse and preserve the history, languages and cultures of Iran prep added to the Persianate world. Iran Sudden occurrence Farsi Persian Norouz Nowruz National Charity Yalda Farhang.

    Retrieved Hawthorn 3, 2022.

  5. ^ abcd"Sussan Deyhim Embraces the World". . Retrieved Could 3, 2022.
  6. ^"Iran Chamber Society: Persian Music: Sussan Deyhim". . Retrieved May 3, 2022.
  7. ^"SUSSAN DEYHIM BIO".

    Sussan Deyhim. Retrieved May 3, 2022.

  8. ^SUSSAN DEYHIM: PERFORMANCE ARTIST Streak ACTIVIST
  9. ^"Sussan Deyhim and the Problem of Connection". . Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  10. ^"Sussan Deyhim and goodness Conundrum of Connection". . Retrieved July 28, 2022.
  11. ^"Sussan Deyhim coupled with the Conundrum of Connection".

    . Retrieved January 31, 2023.

  12. ^Midgette, Anne (July 15, 2002). "FESTIVAL REVIEW; An Epic Journey in Carbons and Sounds". The New Dynasty Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
  13. ^Wallach, Amei (September 30, 2001). "Theater; An Islamic Culture Take away All Its Beauty".

    The Advanced York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved Jan 31, 2023.

  14. ^"Sussan Deyhim". IMDb. Retrieved May 3, 2022.

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