Le Fauve et la Huppe

"The wild cat and the hoopoe in the garden of intimacy" is a portrait of the Iranian singer Parissa. She began her career as an interpreter of traditional Persian songs in 1970. Her highly interiorised voice so charged with the profoundness of the poetry has impressed many of her compatriots. Prevented from singing in public after the revolution in 1978 she spent the next 17 years taking care of her family and studying Persian soufi poetry and spirituality. In 1995 she decided to share her art with the public again and since then has travelled abroad giving concerts, for – as she says – singing and "breathing" are the most appropriate ways of sharing spiritual inspiration.