BAKU, April 28 - News-Azerbaijan, Ali Mammadov. AMI News-Azerbaijan offers the top 11 greatest Azerbaijanis of the 20th century:

1. Heydar Aliyev- Soviet and Azerbaijani state, party and political figure. President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. Twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Founder of modern Azerbaijan statehood.

2. Mammad Emin Rasulzade- Outstanding writer, political and public figure. Founder of the Azerbaijan Republic.

3. Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev- Azerbaijani millionaire and philanthropist, real state adviser. In some works of historians and biographers, he is mainly referred to as a "great benefactor". He has made donations to charitable causes all over the world.

4. Rashid Behbudov- Soviet Azerbaijani pop and opera singer (lyric tenor), actor. Born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia) in the family of a famous folk singer-khanende from Shusha. People's Artist of the USSR. Hero of Socialist Labor.

5. Lutfi Zadeh- Azerbaijani mathematician and logician, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, professor at the University of California (Berkeley). He was born on February 4, 1921 in the village of Novkhani, Azerbaijan.

6. Muslim Magomayev- Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer (baritone), composer. People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan. Born in Baku. Grandson of Abdul-Muslim Magomayev, an Azerbaijani composer who is one of the founders of the Azerbaijani classical music whose name is the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic.

7. Mustafa Topchibashev- Soviet surgeon, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. Author of over 160 scientific works which are still used by world surgery. He was awarded four Orders of Lenin during his lifetime.

8. Hazi Aslanov- Soviet military commander, Major General of the Guards, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Streets, schools, higher educational institutions are named in his honor in the CIS countries.

9. Kerim Kerimov- the founders of the Soviet space program, who made a significant contribution to space exploration. For many years he was a central figure in the Soviet cosmonautics. But despite his important role, his identity was kept secret from the public for most of his career. Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Stalin, Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR.

10. Bulbul- folk and opera singer (tenor), one of the founders of the Azerbaijani national musical theater, National artist THE USSR.

11. Kara Karaev- composer and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Stalin Prizes, holder of the Orders of Lenin, October revolution, Labor Red Banner. One of the largest figures of Azerbaijani culture of the post-war period.

BAKU, April 28 - News-Azerbaijan, Ali Mammadov. AMI News-Azerbaijan offers the top 11 greatest Azerbaijanis of the 20th century:

1. Heydar Aliyev- Soviet and Azerbaijani state, party and political figure. President of Azerbaijan from 1993 to 2003. Twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Founder of modern Azerbaijan statehood.

2. Mammad Emin Rasulzade- Outstanding writer, political and public figure. Founder of the Azerbaijan Republic.

3. Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev- Azerbaijani millionaire and philanthropist, real state adviser. In some works of historians and biographers, he is mainly referred to as a "great benefactor". He has made donations to charitable causes all over the world.

4. Rashid Behbudov- Soviet Azerbaijani pop and opera singer (lyric tenor), actor. Born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia) in the family of a famous folk singer-khanende from Shusha. People's Artist of the USSR. Hero of Socialist Labor.

5. Lutfi Zadeh- Azerbaijani mathematician and logician, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, professor at the University of California (Berkeley). He was born on February 4, 1921 in the village of Novkhani, Azerbaijan.

6. Muslim Magomayev- Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer (baritone), composer. People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan. Born in Baku. The grandson of Abdul-Muslim Magomayev, an Azerbaijani composer, one of the founders of Azerbaijani classical music, whose name is the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic.

7. Mustafa Topchibashev- Soviet surgeon, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. Author of more than 160 scientific papers, which are still used by world surgery. He was awarded four Orders of Lenin during his lifetime.

8. Hazi Aslanov- Soviet military commander, Major General of the Guards, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Streets, schools, higher educational institutions are named in his honor in the CIS countries.

9. Kerim Kerimov- the founders of the Soviet space program, who made a significant contribution to space exploration. For many years he was a central figure in the Soviet cosmonautics. But despite his important role, his identity was kept secret from the public for most of his career. Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Stalin, Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR.

10. Bulbul- People's and opera singer (tenor), one of the founders of the Azerbaijani national musical theater, People's Artist of the USSR.

11. Kara Karaev- composer and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Stalin Prizes, holder of the orders of Lenin, the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor. One of the largest figures of Azerbaijani culture of the post-war period.

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Ten Azerbaijani performers who conquered the USSR - PHOTO

All-Union fame, tours, full houses and applause from fans accompanied popular Azerbaijani performers, who undoubtedly contributed to the development of the Soviet musical culture. Magomaev, Beibutov, Bulbul and many others - their voices were among the most powerful and recognizable, and the whole country sang their songs.

According to Oxu Az, the Moscow-Baku portal presents the ten most popular artists from Azerbaijan, whose names conquered the entire Soviet Union.

1. Muslim Magomayev

In the 70s of the last century, there was no equal in popularity to the opera and pop singer Muslim Magomayev. Television and radio constantly played his songs "Evening on the Road", "Blue Taiga", "Beauty Queen" and many others. For the first time, Muslim performed at a professional level in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Baku Military District in 1961, and a year later he was sent to world festival youth in Helsinki. At the same time, in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the singer won all-union glory, speaking at the festival of Azerbaijani art. After an internship at the Italian opera La Scala, he was expected to tour in Paris, where the director of the famous Olympia would offer him a contract for several years. However, the Ministry of Culture of the USSR was against it - Magomayev was indispensable at government concerts. At the age of 31, the singer became not only the "People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR", but also the "People's Artist of the USSR". The peak of Muslim Magomayev's musical career falls on the 60-70s. The singer collected stadiums throughout the USSR, he was received with admiration by the largest concert and opera stages in the world. On October 25, 2008, Muslim Magometovich died, he was buried in Baku on the Alley of Honor.

2. Rashid Behbudov

People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of State Prizes, Hero of Socialist Labor Rashid Behbudov had many awards, but the greatest title for him was the love of the people. He will forever remain in the memory of millions of people as a sunny singer from sunny Azerbaijan. Rashid Mejidovich devoted his life to music, and his voice became the national treasure of Azerbaijan. He went on tour in almost all countries of the world, and in each of them he always sang in the language of the people where he performed. He sang in seventy languages ​​of the world and equally virtuoso performed pop hits and opera arias, introducing some of his own, Rashid's style into them. His talent was limitless, and his fame went far beyond the borders of the USSR - he sang in front of Indira Gandhi, Mao Dze Dun and Iranian Shah Mahomet Reza Pahlavi. The great tenor was awarded the highest Soviet award - the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, and in his younger years he received the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. He died in 1989 in Moscow after an unsuccessful surgical operation, and was buried in the Alley of Honor in Baku.

3. Bulbul

For a rare musical gift, already in childhood he was given the nickname "Bulbul", which means "nightingale" in Azerbaijani. It later became his stage name. The real name of the Soviet opera singer (lyric-dramatic tenor), musicologist-folklorist and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR was Murtuza Mamedov. He was born on June 22, 1897 in the village of Khanbagy, Elizavetpol province, which was part of Russian Empire. Bulbul decided to get an education at the Moscow Conservatory, after which he went to the Italian La Scala. Returning to his homeland, the tenor performed at the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater and surprised the audience with his magnificent performances. By that time feature his performance was a combination of Azerbaijani folk motives with Italian classical traditions of operatic singing. He is called the founder of the Azerbaijani national musical theater, his merits were also invaluable in the study and publication of folk musical creativity. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR, was a laureate of the Stalin Prize, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Badge of Honor, as well as the Italian Star of Garibaldi. In 1961, two months before the death of the singer, his concert took place in the Karabakh Shusha, which was attended by thousands of spectators. This was the last performance of the talented Azerbaijani performer.

4. Polad Bulbul ogly

Polad Bul-Bul ogly is the son of the famous Bulbul. It was his father who brought Polad to the stage for the first time as an accompanist. He graduated from the Baku Conservatory in the composition class, and having started writing songs at the age of 17, he became a propagandist of Azerbaijani culture, toured the USSR and many countries of the world. Polad Bul-Bul oglu is considered to be the founder of a new direction on the stage, which combines national traditions in music with modern rhythms. His songs were performed by famous singers of the USSR - Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko and others. He also tried himself as an actor ("Tales of the Russian Forest", "Do not be afraid, I'm with you", "Park of the Soviet period", etc.), but still music brought him great fame. The composer wrote symphonic works, musicals, music for films and performances. In 1969 he was admitted to the Union of Composers of the USSR and the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. In 2000, the Bul-Bul ogly star was opened on the "Star Square" in Moscow. For many years, Polad Bul-Bul oglu was the Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan, and since 2006 he has been appointed the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Russia.

5. Ensemble "Gaya"

"Gaya" was a cult ensemble of the 60s in the Soviet Union, which performed not only Western songs, but also actively promoted Azerbaijani music. This "four" was somewhat similar to the English group "The Beatles", however, with all this they had their own unique style. The vocal group received its first wide recognition during the First All-Union Competition for the best performance of a Soviet song in Moscow in 1966. Since then, the quartet, consisting of Arif Hajiyev, Rauf Babayev, Teymur Mirzoyev and Lev Elisavetsky, has traveled all over the USSR. And wherever they were, they were accompanied by success and full houses, because it was the only quartet in the Union that performed jazz. The generation of the “sixties” probably also remembers the popular program “Gaya” called “Lights big city". It was a project that took your breath away with its names alone: ​​director Mark Rozovsky and Julius Gusman, costume designer Slava Zaitsev, satirist Lion Izmailov. In fact, the quartet was also lucky to collaborate with the best Soviet orchestras - Leonid Utyosov, Oleg Lundstrem, Vadim Ludvikovsky. With the collapse of the USSR, creative teams also disintegrated, including Gaia. The ensemble stopped touring, and eventually broke up.

6. Zeynab Khanlarova

At the end of last year, the People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan Zeynab Khanlarova celebrated her 80th birthday. This legendary singer occupies a special place in the history of Azerbaijani art, because it was thanks to her work that many national compositions were known all over the world.

Laureate of the State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR (1985), she was awarded the Honorary Prize "Golden Disc" of the All-Union Recording Company "Melody" for recordings of Azerbaijani songs and songs of the peoples of the East. For many years she performed roles in opera productions, and was also a famous mugham performer. Thus, among Azerbaijani women-khanende she is the first performer of the mugham "Chakhargah". However, she achieved the greatest success in the pop genre and in her more than 50-year-old musical career Zeynab Khanlarova visited with concerts about fifty countries of the world. Filmed about her documentary Hello Zeinab! Zeynab Khanlarova is the owner of numerous awards. The last was the honorary order of "Heydar Aliyev", awarded to her by the President of Azerbaijan for her special merits in the development of the country's culture.

7. Shovket Alekperova

Wherever this appears beautiful woman She drew admiring glances. Shovket Alekperova during her lifetime became a legend who was able to win the love of fans of her talent for the deep emotionality and lyricism inherent in her performing style. In 1937, she won a singing competition, where her talent was evaluated by the composer Uzeyir Gadzhibekov and the singer Bulbul. After her brilliant performance of the composition "Karabakh shikestesi", Hajibeyov accepted Alekperova into the newly created Azerbaijan State Choir, in which she began her professional career as a singer. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, Alekperova went on tour to the front, singing patriotic songs and often speaking up to fifty times a day. By the 1950s, she was recognized as the most popular performer of Azerbaijani folk and pop songs. During her creative career, Alekperova has toured more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. When the legendary singer passed away in 1993, she was given a state funeral broadcast live on television.

8. Lutfiyar Imanov

Soviet opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR Lutfiyar Imanov was a prominent representative of the Azerbaijani vocal school. For many years creative life he performed dozens of parts of the world tenor repertoire in the best theaters peace. And the first serious works of the vocalist were parts in the performances of the Azerbaijan Musical Comedy Theater. The main roles in the operettas "Arshin Mal Alan", "Mashadi Ibad", "Haji Gara", "Ulduz" became a serious school for the young vocalist. In 1958, at the Decade of Azerbaijani Literature and Art in Moscow, he became the performer of the part of Koroglu in the opera of the same name and conquered everyone with his brilliant performance. Later, he had the happy opportunity to do an internship at Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Milanese opera La Scala, and at the cost of enormous labor, he became a performer of the most complex parts of the world opera. The Moscow critic Florensky, after meeting with Imanov, noted: “Not all singers can so easily and freely move from one school to another. It is remarkable that Imanov surprisingly clean intonation and pronounces texts in Azerbaijani, Russian and Italian. In my opinion, he immaculately performed Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, conveying the very spirit of the classical romance. The son of the Azerbaijani people, he deeply feels the nature of Russian musical culture.” The departure of the 79-year-old tenor in 2008 was a great loss for Azerbaijani culture.

9. Fidan and Khuraman Kasimovs

Two sisters, two sopranos - they glorified Azerbaijan throughout the USSR. duet of opera divas folk artists USSR Fidan and Khuraman Kasimovs were awarded the most top awards and titles. Graduates of the Moscow Conservatory to this day are the stars of the Azerbaijani and world scenes, write music, give concerts, and always go on stage together. 1977 was marked great success- Fidan received a gold medal at an international competition in Italy, her sister Khuraman became a laureate of the Transcaucasian and All-Union competitions of young vocalists. And in 1981, Khuraman also won the "Grand Prix" International Competition named after Maria Callas in Athens. The Kasimovs created a gallery of unforgettable images of world, Russian and Azerbaijani opera classics - Desdemona in Othello, Micaela in Carmen and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, toured all over the world, and more than once performed with the Moscow symphony orchestra Moscow Virtuosos. Today they have their own school, where they share the secrets of opera and conduct master classes.

10. Emin Babaev

Honored Artist of Russia, Azerbaijani singer Emin Babayev became famous in the 80s of the last century. He was born in Baku, where he graduated from the Gadzhibekov Conservatory in the violin class, and in parallel with his studies he worked as a soloist-vocalist at the Song Theater under the direction of Rashid Behbudov. Later, Babaev moved to Moscow, where he collaborated with the largest concert organization Moskontsert. Many probably remember his duet with singer Irina Malgina - one of the couple's main hits was the song "City Flowers". In 1993, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia. composers, many of whom were written specifically for Babaev.

BAKU / News-Azerbaijan. IN Lately the number of Azerbaijani performers is growing, gaining popularity on the musical Olympus in various countries of the world. They are loved, they have an "army" of fans around the world, but not everyone knows that these singers are Azerbaijanis.

Represents the "top ten":

1. Opens Top 10 Arash. Full name Arash Labafzade is a Swedish-Iranian singer, dancer, artist, composer and producer of Azerbaijani origin.

In 2004, the single Boro Boro hit No. 2 in Sweden in 4 weeks and then took first place in almost all world charts and charts.

In 2006, Arash's collection of awards was replenished with two Golden Gramophone awards.

The album "Donya" made the name of Arash recognizable among pop music lovers around the world. In five countries "Donya" acquired the status of "Golden Album".

The largest concerts: live performance at an open stadium in Kazakhstan, in the city of Alma-Ata - 100,000 people, and in Poland, Sweden - 120,000. At indoor venues - 2 shows at the Olimpiysky sports complex in Moscow, 40,000 people each - each.

2. Emin Agalarov, known in the world of show business and as EMIN. Azerbaijani and Russian singer and musician, songwriter, entrepreneur, First Vice President of the Crocus Group.

Born on December 12, 1979 in the city of Baku (Azerbaijan). April 22, 2006 released his first music album "Still". In September 2011, Emin Agalarov began working with the European recording studio "EMI Music Germany". The releases of the albums "Wonder" and "After The Thunder" took place in collaboration with producer Brian Rowling. In its first week, "Wonder" sold 3,000 copies in the UK.

The single "Obvious" entered the UK radio chart, becoming "song of the week" on radio stations "BBC Radio 2", "Magic FM" and "BBC Local Radio". "Wonder" was voted "Album of the Week" on BBC Radio 2. The song "All I Need Tonight" was included in the charity compilation "Download For Good". The producer of the project was film director David Lynch.

On May 28, 2012, the album "After The Thunder" was released internationally in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Greece and Russia.

In July 2016, Emin Agalarov organized the "Heat" music festival, which was successfully held in Baku. Grigory Leps, Philip Kirkorov, Leonid Agutin, Nikolai Baskov, Ani Lorak, Polina Gagarina, Alexei Vorobyov, Anita Tsoi, Sergey Lazarev, Katya Lel and other artists performed at the festival.

3. Sami Yusif- British singer, composer, instrumentalist, performer of Islamic religious songs. Ethnic Azerbaijani.

Born in 1980 in Tehran, in a family of Iranian Azerbaijanis. At the age of 3, he came with his parents to the UK, where he lives to this day. Starting from early childhood to play on a variety of musical instruments He attended classes at the Royal Academy of Music. Popular in all Islamic states.

4. googoosh or Faige Ateshin - Iranian singer and actress of Azerbaijani origin. In the 70s she was one of the most popular singers and actresses. It is also well known in Turkey, Transcaucasia, USA, Central Asia.

In the USSR, she became famous thanks to the film "Long Night".

In 1971, he performed the songs "Retour de la ville" and "J" entends crier je t "aime" in French in Cannes and took 1st place there.

The composition "Ayrılıq" became the most popular song in the native Azerbaijani language. Since then, at almost all solo concerts, the singer has always performed this song, which has become her hallmark.

5. Yagub Zurufchu- Azerbaijani by nationality, for a long time was a US citizen. Known in Iran, Germany and the USA, singer Yagub Zurufchu, having performed the song "Ayrılıq" in his native Azerbaijani language, has become a favorite in Azerbaijan.

In 2009 by own will received Azerbaijani citizenship.

Yagub Zurufchu was also awarded the title of "Honored Artist of Azerbaijan".

6. Elnur Huseynov. After a shocking performance at the song contest of the "Voice" project in Turkey, Elnur gained millions of fans in the brotherly country. He represented Azerbaijan twice at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008 and 2015.

7. Bakhtiyar Mammadov. The multi-million audience knows him as Jah Khalib. Yes, yes - Jah Khalib is a native Azerbaijani. IN this moment the singer lives and is active in the city of Almaty. The singer took the pseudonym "Jah Khalib", or, as Mammadov himself notes, simply Baha.

He has a lot of audio recordings in his luggage, the most famous of them are "Your sleepy eyes", "Sex, drugs", "Burning to the ground", "You are for me" and others. In Azerbaijan, his most popular song is "Leyla".

8. Among the famous singers of our time with the name Bakhtiyar there is also Bakhtiyar Aliyev, or, as he is commonly called, Bahh Tee.

Russian singer of Azerbaijani origin Bahh Tee became the first Russian artist who became famous through social media and who later managed to convey his work to television viewers and radio listeners. Bakhtiyar is the author of lyrics for all his songs, co-author of music for most of his songs, although he has no musical education.

9. Anar Zeynalov and Timur Odilbekov - group " Caspian Cargo". The group consists of two members Brutto and Ves, both members from Azerbaijan.

Ves - Anar Zeynalov was born on October 6, 1983 in Baku, is the most experienced member of the group, as he already had experience of performing before the creation of the group.

The group gained its fame after a joint track with Guf from the Center, the group's fans liked the composition called "All for $ 1", later a video was shot for this track. This track became the starting point, after which the guys started to release the album, which was attended by such famous performers like Slim, Guf, Slovetsky, Bratubrat and many others. The group has an "army" of fans in Russia.

10. Eljan Rzayev- singer, pianist, composer, Azerbaijani by nationality. It is very popular in Holland. He gave concerts in 14 European countries.

Prepared by Ali MAMEDOV