Dos-Mukasan (Дос-Мұқасан) is a
Soviet-era
Kazakh 'Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble', formed in Almaty in 1967 by students of the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute. The name was formed by combining syllables of the members' names: Dosym Suleev (Досым Сулеев), Murat Kusainov (Мурат Кусаинов), Kamit Sanbaev (Камит Санбаев) and Aleksander "Sanya" Litvinov (Александр "Саня" Литвинов). The band occasionally had vocalists in its line-up such as Dariga Tursunova (Дарига Турсунова) who sang "Бәрінен де сен сұлу", and Kurmanaj Omarova (Курманай Омарова) …
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