Iran's legendary classical singer and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian dies Iranians around the world flooded their social media accounts with tributes, songs and poetry dedicated to legendary Iranian ...

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Suman Kalyanpur’s Bollywood career reached new heights during the 1960s after the fallout between Lata Mangeshkar and ...

When protests broke out in Iran in 2009 over the fraudulent presidential election, one of the country’s leading artists stood up against the regime and its violent repression of demonstrators.

Despite towering contemporaries like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, Suman Kalyanpur craved her own path in playback singing and sang over 700 movie and non-movie songs.