Sussan Deyhim (Persian: سوسن دیهیم; born December 14, 1958) is an Iranian-American composer, vocalist, performance artist, and activist.
At the age of 13, she joined the Iranian National Ballet Company, and was offered a scholarship to attend the School of Performing Arts in Brussels.
Leaving Tehran in 1980, Deyhim moved to New York, embarking on a multifaceted career encompassing music, theatre, dance, media and wide-ranging collaborations with leading artists from across the spectrum of contemporary art, including Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Peter Gabriel, and Rufus Wainwright, Richard Horowitz, along with prominent female visual artists Shirin Neshat, Sophie Calle and Lita Albuquerque.
She has been signed to Sony Classical and continues to record for her own label, Venus Rising, where she has released five new albums of her works on film, multi media and recent collaborations.
[5] Often singing in Farsi, her music can be heard on the Oscar-winning film, Argo, while U2 made use of her composition, "Windfall/Beshno Az Ney," as part of its 360 tour.
In her work "Dawn of the Cold Season", a mixed media performative installation project, she was inspired by poet Forough Farrokhzad.