Simin Ghanem

Simin Ghanem (Persian: سیمین غانم‌, born 11 April 1944, Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian classical and pop singer. Ghanem started singing when she was 9 years old. In 1962, she was the best singer in the Iranian school competition. 7 years later she started her professional singing career with the TV program Moje Khorooshan. She studied traditional Iranian music with Morteza Hannaneh & Ali Tajvidi, both professional musicians in Iran. Her first song in Pop music was: "Gollake Cheshat" for many years it was the most popular song in Iran. Simin Ghanem is one of the few singers in Iran who has a lasting and brilliant career in both traditional and pop styles of Iranian music. Examples like: "Besouzan" from Ali Tajvidi and "Mara Raha Kon" from Homayoun Khorram, "Marde Man" from Babak Bayat, “Az To Tanha Shodam" from Fereydoun Shahbazian, “Range Mesi” and “Seeb” from Fariborz Lachini. The American electronic music duo Odesza used samples of Ghanem's song Seeb on the track Behind the Sun from the album The Last Goodbye. A remix of Sib's song was made by Odesza music group "Behind the Sun", which was used in the FIFA 23 game and also in the opening credits of Apple's WWDC22 conference.