Esmat Bagherpour (عصمت باقرپور), known as Delkash (دلکش), (February 26, 1925 - September 2, 2004) was an Iranian female singer, singing in Persian and the local Iranian languages of Guilaki and Mazandarani .

She was born in Babol, and was the daugher of a cotton trader who had twelve other children. She came to Tehran to study, but she was discovered soon and was introduced to the music masters of the time, Ruhollah Khaleghi and Abdolali Vaziri . She was named Delkash by Vaziri.

Delkash started public singing in 1943 and was employed in Radio Iran in 1945, only five years after the establishment of the program. There, she worked with the composer Mehdi Khaledi for seven years, until 1952, which made them both very famous.

She has also worked as a song writer under the pen name of Niloofar (نیلوفر) and has played in a few Iranian movies, including Sharmsaar, Maadar, Afsoungar, and Dasiseh.

Delkash died in 2004, at the age of 80, in Tehran.