Yesterday I was talking to a friend about the Shahkar phenomenon and suddenly I noticed something I hadn’t picked up on earlier! I don’t know if anyone has anywhere addressed this but have you paid attention to the female vocals on his “Mimiram”? I always found her singing in Persian excellent, despite the “gh” mispronunciations. Its was as if she was an Iranian singing but deliberately uttering “g” instead of “gh” …suddenly it hit me that it might very well be the case!! If you listen closely she puts on the thickest G:s in for instance “G’albam”, but she has absolutely no problem uttering “gh” in “asheghete”! My guess is that the woman singing this on stage is just lip-syncing to a recording done in studio by an Iranian vocalist pretending to sound non-Iranian! Just another trick added to the spectacle. What do you guys think?
