This month, Iran sentenced a woman to be flogged — for singing.
SEDA is our answer.
Iranian Women Sing Across Generations · Inglewood
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Lashes. For a song.
In June 2026, an Iranian court sentenced singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight of her collaborators to 74 lashes and a two-year ban on making music — for a concert she sang without a hijab, her voice carrying alone across an empty caravanserai. A court called her voice a crime.
They sentenced one woman for singing. We answer with a stage full of them.
For Parastoo Ahmadi · For the eight beside her · For every voice they tried to silence
Woman, Life, Freedom showed the world that Iranian women are not waiting for permission.
SEDA carries that spirit onto the stage — women singing where they were told not to. One night in Inglewood, the music that was kept quiet gets loud: legends, newcomers, and every voice in between, in public, together, at full volume.
For decades, women's solo public singing before mixed audiences was restricted in Iran. We're answering with a full lineup.
Once forbidden. Tonight, the whole program.
A woman's solo voice in public was censored for decades.
Tonight, it opens the show.
Dancing in the open has gotten Iranians arrested.
Tonight, the whole room moves.
A night like this could be shut down.
Tonight, nobody leaves early.
This is what freedom sounds like.
Iranian women singers across generations on one stage — the icons who shaped the sound, the artists who carried it across borders, and the new voices rising in LA. One lineage, equal billing, one loud and joyful night.
You don't have to agree on Iran's future to sing along with its women.
Not a party. Not a crown.
Not a foreign government. Not a war.
In every other sense, it's a party. The stage belongs to the artists.
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