Background and career
Leila Forouhar (Persian: لیلا فروهر, Leilâ Foruhar; born 23 February 1959) is an Iranian singer and former actress.
Born in Isfahan as the daughter to actor Jahangir Forouhar, she initially pursued a career as an actress and, seven years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, migrated first from Turkey to Los Angeles in 1986, and then settled in Los Angeles, United States, from 1988.
Forouhar is the daughter of two Iranian actors, Jahangir Forouhar and Farangis Farahzadi. She began acting in films at the age of five and entered the music industry at 14. Before the revolution, she appeared in over 45 Iranian films, and after migrating to the United States, she released more than 20 albums. In 2010, Forouhar performed at a Nowruz celebration at the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.
