Episode 3 - The Tehran Teen Idol
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Danielle and Galeet\\u2019s father, Farid Dardashti, was born in Tehran in 1942, the oldest of Houri and Younes Dardashti\\u2019s five children, all of whom had natural musical talent. Farid\\u2019s gorgeous voice kept earning him invitations to perform, but his parents didn\\u2019t want him to pursue music. To make them proud, he applied to study architecture in America. While waiting for his visa and acceptance to college, he got offered his own weekly show singing on Iranian TV. He quickly became a teen idol. But when his visa came through, he left the country as planned \\u2013 and never once considered staying to grow his fame as a singer. This didn\\u2019t make any sense to Danielle and Galeet. But that\\u2019s because they were missing an important piece of the story.
Co-creators / Co-executive producers - Danielle Dardashti and\\xa0Galeet Dardashti
The Nightingale of Iran -\\xa0nightingaleofiran.com
Presented by The\\xa0Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a publication of 70 Faces Media
Host - Danielle Dardashti
Writer / Director / Senior Producer - Danielle Dardashti
Producer / Musical Director / Subject Matter Expert - Galeet Dardashti
Audio Editors / Sound Designers - Rebecca Seidel & Zachary Goldberg
Story Editor - Rider Alsop
Story Consultant - Asal Ehsanipour
Composer of Theme Song - Galeet Dardashti: \\u201cMelekh\\u201d from her album Monajat, featuring Younes Dardashti (with Shanir Blumenkranz, Max ZT, Zafer Tawil, Philip Mayer)
In Episode 3, The Tehran Teen Idol, you heard our conversations with: Farid Dardashti, Yadid Dardashti, Hamid Dardashti, Jina Aziz-Zadeh, Houman Sarshar, Homa Sarshar, Laura Younai, Rachel Nazarian Ehsagpour, Lili Keypour, Haideh Herbert, and Mohsen Mohammadi.
Thank you to our sponsors:
-Jewish Writers\\u2019 Initiative Digital Storytellers Lab / Maimonides Fund
-Common Era
-Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Foundation
-The Himan Brown Charitable Trust
-Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
-UCLA Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music
-Be\\u2019chol Lashon (fiscal sponsor)
Dedication: This is for you Dadders!!! We love you (and Mommy) so much!!!! xox
We are so grateful for: our extraordinary husbands, Roni Sarig and Mason Weisz, who have contributed in countless ways big and small; Danielle\\u2019s amazing kids, Uri Dardashti Sarig and Raquel Dardashti Sarig, who lent their talents in story editing, sound capture, episode cover art design, and more; and Galeet\\u2019s kids -Yaniv and Adin\\u2013for being such incredible humans.
There are so many people we want to thank for their love, guidance, support, and inspiration on this project: Houri & Younes Dardashti, Millie & Louie Heifetz, Michelle Dardashti, Shahnaze Dardashti, Louise Motevassel, David Dardashti, Oren Motevassel, Niloo Dardashti, Schelly Dardashti, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Dawne Bear Novicoff, Vicki Compter Lefkowitz, Jeni Friedman, Rebecca Friedman, Rebecca Guber, Debbie Kolben, Ami Eden, Caleb Guedes Reed, Sharon Nazarian, Jessamyn Rodriguez, Yonah Schiller, Richard Kay, Mark Kligman, Sarah Lefton, Janine Okmin, Arielle Nissenblatt, Ilana Nevins, Lauren Passell, Habib Partow, Alan Niku, Ruth Abusch-Magder, Julian Voloj, Melina Rosenberg, Lior Sternfeld, Edwin Seroussi, Manucher Bibiyan, Shahla Javdan, Nahid Pirnazar, Tarlan Rabizadeh, Evan Mateen, Hasan Sarbakhshian, Sierra Ulrich, David Shofet, Sarah Benor and Hadas Bram.
Intro credits read by: Michelle Dardashti
Cover art design: Ghulam Nabi
Assistants: Courtney Cunningham & Jessica DeWeese
Marketing / PR:\\xa0 Tink
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