TEHRAN — As crowds poured through the streets of Iran last month to demonstrate against the government, an up-and-coming 25-year-old singer named Shervin Hajipour began working on a new song. For the ...

For nearly two-and-a-half decades before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the boundary-pushing artist captivated audiences in ...

While Hajipour’s version of “Baraye” has been taken down from social media due to copyright issues, many versions of it can be heard online, including this English translation from Iranian ...

I’d never seen my 74-year-old mother cry like she did the day I played her, “Baraye,” the song written by Shervin Hajipour, in support of the Iranian protests that began last September following the ...

Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, whose song became popular during mass protests in 2022, has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison and ordered to write a song about US “atrocities,” ...

Chicago — With each stroke of her brush, Roya Karbakhsh paints a story about women, life, and freedom. The 35-year-old told CBS News that in her native country of Iran, she didn't have the confidence ...

In April 2007, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain stood onstage during a primary campaign stop in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, blew his nose, and fielded a question about sending “an ...

Seven months ago during Grammy week, when every pop star was in Los Angeles, Taylor Hanson, the middle brother of pop-rock trio Hanson and a co-founder of For Women Life Freedom (FWLF), was working ...

A video of Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, whose protest song "Baraye" received more than 40 million views within a day according to some estimates, has quickly spread across Iran and to the Iranian ...