Googoosh celebrating her 71th birthday in the U.S

Googoosh was born Faegheh Atashin on 5 May 1950 in the Sarcheshmeh neighborhood, Tehran, to parents Nasrin and Saber Atashin, Saber being an Iranian Azerbaijani and Nasrin being an Azerbaijani immigrant from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Even though her birth certificate has recorded her date of birth as 7 February 1950, Googoosh has said that her mother has told her she was actually born on May 5th.