Her grandmother, Molla Khayr-ol-Nesa” Khayr-ol-Zakerin (the latter was a title given to her by the king meaning “the Glory of narrators”) was a Rowze-khan (Singer of soaz) in Naser-al-din Shah Qajar darbar. She mentions those days one of the factors of her being a singer. Her existing birth certificate, however, issued in Tehran in 1925, legally records her first name as Qamar-al-Moluk and her last name as changed from Sayyed Ḥosayn Khan to Vazirizāda, the name she chose for herself in honor of the musician and theoretician of music “Ali-Naqi Vaziri”.
