Before the emergence in the early 1950s of Vigen Derderian, who has died aged 73 of cancer in Californian exile, the music industry of his native Iran was dominated by traditional singers, who had ...

One of Iran's best-loved pop singers, Vigen, has died in the United States at the age of 74. He was generally known as the king of Iranian pop. Vigen in his heyday with his daughter Jacqueline Like ...