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Muslim Magomayev
12+ albums
azerbaijanjazzoperapopclassic russian pop
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Muslim Magomayev (Azerbaijani: Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev; born 17 August 1942 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani baritone operatic and pop singer who was active during the 1960s and 1970s in the Soviet Union. Muslim Magomayev represents one of the most respected artistic dynasties in Azerbaijan. His grandfather Muslim Magomayev (1885-1937), a friend and contemporary of the prominent Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, was one of the founders of Azerbaijani-composed music. Magomayev's father, Mohammad Magomayev, who died during World War II, was a gifted painter, and his mother was an actress. Muslim learned to play a piano as a child, and began to take lessons from teachers of voice at the age of 14. He finished the piano and composition class of the musical school at Baku conservatoire, and then graduated from the vocal class of Baku conservatoire. As a teenager he became interested in Italian songs, American jazz and other styles of popular music. In 1962, at the age of 20, Magomayev first appeared in Moscow where he performed within the frameworks of the Days of Azerbaijani Culture. He sang two musical pieces in a gala-concert on the USSR's main stage, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, and became a celebrity on a spur of the moment. A year later he gave his first solo concert in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall to a full house and became a soloist of Azerbaijan opera theatre. Muslim earned fame in the USSR as an opera singer with Rossini's "Barber of Seville". He als
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