Gisoo Shakeri was
born in 1953 in Iran. In 1980 she started classical singing classes with
master Nasehpour . She has
lived in Sweden since 1988 and a year later started her cultural
activities in various Swedish cities and in some other European
countries. Gisoo Shakeri has participated in many cultural activities,
ranging from presenting Persian mystical music to designing and
arranging fashion shows of Iranian folklore costumes and instructing
classical singing courses in Persian. She is also involved in many
social activities. She has produced two music albums in which she sings
about women's personality and their rights in society. Her two albums
"Khamooshi" (Silence) and "Shogheh Residan" (Joy of
reaching) are mainly about Iranian women and their struggle to achieve
freedom. Gisoo Shakeri puts her heart into presenting the work of Ghamar
Molouk Vaziri, one of the great stars of Iranian classical singing,
renewing her works through some new lyrics by the modern Iranian poet
Mina Asadi. Her poetry is about the injustices of Iranian society, and
about exile and the hope of changing the country for the better through
a new revolution. Gisoo Shakeri is an active worker on women's cultural
issues, doing a lot of historical and cultural research about heroic
women in Iranian history. She has also collected poetry on that theme.
Raha (free) is the title of a children's book written by Gisoo Shakeri
in which she explains very clearly the importance of freedom. Besides
working as a family and immigrant advisor her professional expertise has
been called on for university lectures, seminars and research on how to
resolve family relationship problems.Her third music album has been entitled "On height
of insanity " (Dar ertefae djonoon) Its poems has been composed by the contemporary poet
"Nosrat Rahmani" and its melody composed by "Masoud
farnoodi" Now Gisso cooperates with different music groups in
Sweden and has performed several concerts in many cities in that
country.
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