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Artist
Gulara Azafly
6+ albums
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Gulara Azafly (Azerbaijani: Gülarə Azaflı; born 21 March 1959 in Azafly, Tovuz) is an ashiq from Azerbaijan. She was an apprentice to her father Mikayil Azafly (1924- 1990), a prominent Tovuz ashiq. Since 1984, when the famous Аshiq Peri Majlisi (group of women- ashiq) was established on the Azerbaijan State TV Channel, she has been involved in it, and has been running it since 2000. Gulara Azafly has given concerts in Russia, Georgia and other republics of the former USSR, and also abroad – in Iran, Turkey, twice in Iraq (1989, Days of Culture of Azerbaijan; 1996, Babylon festival), in Germany – in Cologne, Frankfurt, Dortmund (1991, Days of Culture of Azerbaijan), at the International festival in San Francisco (2005, USA). In 2007, ВВС Radio 3 recorded her deyishme with Ashiq Zulfiya Ibadova for the World Routes programme. Gulara Azafly performs over 60 ashiq melodies as well as the das- tan Salimshah, Abbas and Qulqez, and Asli Kerem. She is also the author of many poems thatand were published in the poetic collections of Аshiq Peri Majlisi and in various periodicals. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.