Artist
Zangoleah
1960s-1970s
Female drummer and vocalist whose strange, energetic recordings blended garage rock energy with Persian melodies and unexpected vocal flourishes. Created some of the scene's most distinctive tracks, proving Iranian psychedelic rock could be built by women in a country that would later forbid female solo vocalists entirely. Her work exemplified the scene's experimental edge before the 1979 revolution erased women's voices from public performance.