Pop Music in Iran

This type of music came to Iran about 50 years ago. Pop is the most popular music here. Lots of Iranian pop singers are now abroad. It is because the government won’t give them permission to sing songs. The government says that they are not Islamic songs and if they sing songs here, they’ll be punished because it is illegal. So lots of singers are now abroad and singing Farsi(Persian) there. Women can just sing with men, not alone. But still many good singers are in Iran because they gave permission from government. Some famous pop singers are: Mohammad Esfahany, Sandy, Shahrokh, Shahram Solati, Mohsen Chavoshi, Omid Modiri, Mehdi Moghaddam, Nariman, Sam, Arash, Shadmehr,... .