Esmat Bagherpour Baboli (Farsi: عصمت باقرپور بابلی‎), better known as Delkash (Farsi: دلکش, February 26, 1925 – September 2, 2004) was an Iranian singer, songwriter, and actress who achieved major popularity in Iran during the 20th century as a performer of Iranian classical music, both in Persian and the local Iranian language of Mazandarani. She was born in Babol, and was the daughter of a cotton trader who had twelve other children. Read more on Last.fm