Муслим Магомаев
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Muslim Magomayev was representing one of the most respected artistic dynasties in Azerbaijan. His father Mahammed Magomayev was a gifted painter, his mother Ayshet Magomayeva was an actress while both his grandfather Muslim Magomayev and his grandfather’s friend Uzeyir Hajibeyov were prominent composers.
At the age of 14, Muslim began to take lessons from teachers of voice choreography and finished piano lessons. 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 the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Muslim earned fame in the USSR as an opera singer with Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. He also became famous for his arias from Puccini’s
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