Googoosh is a Iranian pop idol that is popular world-wide. Even though she was not allowed to sing due to laws passed in Iran, her popularity grew over time, until 2000 when she left the country and began to perform again. The control she has over her voice has made her known across the globe, and is shown well in her song "Hejrat" (the video is on the bottom of the post). Many of her phrases end in a long vibrato ornamentation, sometimes lasting for several seconds at a time (even when the phrase itself was quite long). Many of the phrases have large cadences afterwards, with small ones seemingly just to let her catch her breath. The slow tempo helps her pull off the long "drags" that she does with her ornamentation. Similarly, she places a large amount of accentuation on the ends of phrases, with each phrase coming with its own crescendo. The song is played in a simple meter, with the drums in the background causing the pulse of the song (quasipulsatile).
The song is made up from very few instruments: just vocalists, a keyboard, and a drum (assumably a tombak/darabukkah). While Googoosh herself never fades out, the other vocalists spend much of the song fading in and out, accenting the various phrases. The keyboard plays the bulk of the song (along with Googoosh) and harmonizes with Googoosh when she sings. The drum keeps the beat of the song, keeping rhythem throughout the life of the track. The melody is done solely by Googoosh's singing
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