Ten Azerbaijani performers who conquered the USSR - photo. Azerbaijani singers who became actors (photo) Azerbaijani musicians
We talked about the beauties of Iran, Egypt and other countries, it's time to look at our beauties and beauties.
Day.Az presents a selection of the world's most famous singers, models, actresses who have Azerbaijani roots.
Sami Yusif- British singer, composer, instrumentalist, performer of Islamic religious songs. Born in July 1980 in Tehran. His parents are ethnic Azerbaijanis. Sami Yusuf became the second singer in the world in terms of the number of albums sold and video views on YouTube.
Timur Rodriguez (real name - Kerimov) - Russian showman, singer, television and radio host, actor, participant in the TV projects KVN, Comedy Club, One to One, ShowaStgoon and Yuzhnoye Butovo, host of the Crocodile, Sexy Chart programs, "Dancing without rules", "National Geographic". Born in Penza on October 14, 1979, in the family of a puppet theater actor Mikail Kerimov, an Azerbaijani, and a Jewess, Zlata Efimovna Levina, a translator, teacher of German and English.
Rustam Dzhabrailov- Actor and model. Born on June 8, 1986 in the city of Lugansk, in an Azerbaijani family. Winner of the competition "The Best Model Of Azerbaijan 2006". Rustam won the title of the best male model "The Best Model of the World 2007" among 90 participants from all over the world at the international competition of male models held in Istanbul in December 2007. After that, Rustam was offered to act in Turkey in films and TV shows. Worked with such companies as "Nissan", "Samsung", "Brioni", "Gucci", "Yves Saint Laurent", "D&G", "Marc Ecko", "Çinici Collection", "Century 21" and others. 
Robert Hossein- French theater and film actor, director, producer, artistic director of the theater "Marigny" (Paris). Hossein's greatest success as an actor was in the role of Geoffrey de Peyrac in the film adaptations of the novels by Anne and Serge Golon about Angélique, where Michel Mercier became his partner. Born December 30, 1927 in Paris. His father, violinist and composer André Hossein (born Aminulla Husseinov, 1905-1983), of Azerbaijani (paternal) and Tajik (maternal) origin, was from Samarkand. 
Paniz Yousefzade- Canadian model with Azerbaijani roots, finalist of Miss Universe Canada 2010. Born in Tehran, at the age of 10 she moved with her family to Vancouver. 
Bahare Kian Afshar is an Iranian actress. Belongs to the Afshars, which are considered a sub-ethnos of Azerbaijanis. 
Sarah Shahi- American actress and fashion model. Father - Iranian Azerbaijani, mother - Spanish. 
Andrea Karimli (Mantea)- Romanian fashion model of Azerbaijani origin. 
Nesrin Javadzadeh- a native Azerbaijani, a well-known actress in Turkey. At the age of 11, she moved to Turkey and now works in Turkish cinema. 
Bianca Balti- famous Italian model. The father of the star of the world catwalks is Italian, and his mother is from Azerbaijan. 
Aylar Dianati Lee- Norwegian fashion model and actress. By nationality - Iranian Azerbaijani. 
Azerbaijanis are a Turkic-speaking people numbering, according to various estimates, from 30 to 40 million people, of which only 8.2 million live in Azerbaijan and from 18 to 30 million in Iran. Significant communities of Azerbaijanis exist in Turkey (800 thousand people), Russia (600 thousand), the USA, Georgia and other countries.
Anthropologically, the majority of Azerbaijanis belong to the Caspian type of the Caucasian race.
This rating presents the most beautiful, in my opinion, famous Azerbaijani women.
24th place: Azeri Gunel / Gunel Zeynalova(born October 25, 1985, Azerbaijan) - Turkish singer. Official site - http://www.gunel.tv/
23rd place: Najiba Melikova(October 25, 1921, Baku - July 27, 1992) - Soviet actress, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
22nd place: Leyla Bedirbeyli/ Badirbekova (January 8, 1920, Baku - November 23, 1999) - Soviet actress, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Leyla Bedirbeyli in the film "Arshin Mal-Alan" (1945)
21st place: (born December 19, 1969, Baku) - jazz performer and composer. Currently he lives permanently in Germany. Official website - azizamustafazadeh.de
20th place: (born 1982) - artist, niece of the first lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva.
18th place: (born October 14, 1938) - Empress of Iran, widow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, overthrown by the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Farah Pahlavi is an Iranian Azerbaijani by nationality.
17th place: - Azerbaijani athlete. In 2007, she was at the center of a scandal: she was fired from the Neftchi club after participating in a photo shoot that appeared on the Azerisport website.
16th place: Leila Shikhlinskaya- Soviet actress, People's Artist of Azerbaijan. Creator and head of the first private multidisciplinary clinic in Azerbaijan "Clinic of Leyla Shikhlinskaya".
Leila Shikhlinskaya in the film "Arshin Mal-Alan" (1965)
15th place: - fashion model from Novorossiysk.
14th place: (born April 25, 1989) - singer. Together with singer Arash, she represented Azerbaijan at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, where she took third place.
13th place: Leyla Aliyeva(born July 3, 1986, Moscow) is the editor-in-chief of the Baku magazine, the eldest daughter of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva.
12th place: Hamida Omarova(born April 25, 1957, Baku) - actress, TV presenter, president of the Union of Cinematographers of Azerbaijan, People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
11th place: (born December 2, 1979, Baku) - singer, representative of Azerbaijan at the Eurovision 2012 contest.
10th place: Paniz Yousefzade/ Paniz Yousefzadeh - Canadian model, Miss Universe Canada 2010 finalist. Born in Tehran, at the age of 10 she moved with her family to Vancouver.
9th place: Bahare Kian Afshar/ Bahareh Kian Afshar is an Iranian actress. Judging by his surname, he belongs to the Afshars, who are considered a sub-ethnos of Azerbaijanis.
8th place: / Sarah Shahi (born January 10, 1980, Oles, USA) is an American actress and fashion model. Father - Iranian Azerbaijani, mother - Spanish. Official website - sarahshahi.org
7th place: / Andreea Kerimli (Mantea) (born September 20, 1986, Bucharest) is a Romanian fashion model of Azerbaijani origin. Height 167 cm.
6th place: Javidan Gurbanova(born November 1, 1990) - winner of the Miss Bahar 2014 and Miss Azerbaijan 2014 contests. VKontakte page -
BAKU / News-Azerbaijan. Recently, the number of Azerbaijani performers, gaining popularity on the musical Olympus in various countries of the world, has been growing. 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 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, at his own request, he received citizenship of Azerbaijan.
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. At the 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.
Bahh Tee, a Russian singer of Azerbaijani origin, became the first Russian artist to become famous through social networks and who later managed to convey his work to TV 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 artists as 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.
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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.
ROYA AYKHAN- in addition to music, the singer is well versed in jurisprudence, as she is a graduate of the Faculty of International Law of Baku State University. By the way, Roya participated in the torch relay of the First European Games. And recently, Roya performed the composition in Russian "Mom" with her son Hussein.
SABINA BABAYEVA- the singer took fourth place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "When The Music Dies". Sabina's father is a military man, and his mother is a pianist. Sabina Babayeva together with Farid Mammadov opened the closing ceremony of the First European Games by singing the Anthem of Azerbaijan. Sabina Babayeva and her husband, director Javidan Sharifov, are expecting their first child.
AYGUN KYAZIMOV- People's Artist, one of the most popular singers of Azerbaijan, who even performed in the Grand Kremlin Hall in Moscow. Aygun is often compared to the world famous singer Beyoncé. By the way, the star does not spare money for lavish birthday celebrations. Aygun is a regular participant in television shows and a guest of fashion shows.
NURA SURI- Singer and TV presenter, she composes songs herself and is well educated. Nura Suri was born in a military family, the father and mother of the singer are veterans of the Karabakh war. Two books have even been published about the life and exploits of the singer's parents. Recently, the children of the Azerbaijani singer became national champions in jiu-jitsu among children and youths. Recently, Noora has taken up boxing seriously. According to the mother of three children, boxing is a familiar sport for her.
BRILLIANT DADASHEV- pop singer and TV presenter was born in the family of an architect. After the collapse of the USSR and the independence of Azerbaijan, Brilliant became the first singer to represent Azerbaijan in Russia, giving solo concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Recently, the singer released another album of her songs, calling it "My World".
Nigar Jamal- Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Nigar holds a Diploma in Economics and Management. At the opening ceremony of the First European Games in Baku, Nigar sang in the choir at the main sports arena when the Anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan was performed. And recently, the singer presented a new clip "Broken Dreams", dedicated to the tragedy in Khojaly.
SEVDA YAHIAEVA- the singer admits that her childhood was not easy, she had to earn money and help her family. From the age of 15, the singer worked in one of the restaurants in the show program and did not even imagine that she would become famous. However, all these events in early childhood made her think like an adult and hardened her.
IRADA IBRAGIMOVA- the singer will become a mother for the second time. “Being a mother for a woman is the brightest feeling. I am grateful to God that I experienced this feeling, ”Irada shares her opinion. Today, the singer and her husband live in Istanbul and are raising their daughter.
