Shusha Guppy

Shusha Guppy channeled the musical traditions of her native Iran to create some of the most beguiling and innovative folk records of the singer/songwriter era -- she is perhaps even better known for her award-winning memoir, The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood. Born Shansi Assar in Tehran on December 24, 1935, she was the daughter of distinguished theologian Mohammad Kazem Assar, the longtime chair of philosophy at Tehran University. At 17 she was sent to Paris to study French literature at the Sorbonne, additionally training as an opera singer. There she adop...