Shovkat Alakbarova

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Shovkat Alakbarova
Born(1922-10-20)20 October 1922
Baku, Azerbaijan
Died7 February 1993(1993-02-07) (aged 70)
Baku, Azerbaijan
GenresClassical
Years active1937–1992

Shovkat Feyzulla qizi Alakbarova (Azerbaijani: Şövkət Ələkbərova) (20 October 1922 in Baku – 7 February 1993 in Baku) was an Azerbaijani singer.

Life and career development

Shovkat Alakbarova was born to

Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Baku (which was her first stage performance) and was chosen by Hajibeyov to join the newly formed Azerbaijan State Choir, where Alakbarova started her professional career as a singer. As a teenager, she was vocally trained by mugham instructor Aghalar Aliverdibeyov and opera singer Huseyngulu Sarabski
. At the early stage of her career, she mostly performed folk songs.

During the

Arabic, and Turkish. She toured over 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Three years before her death, in 1990, she went to Germany
to receive medical treatment and at the same time to perform for the Azeri émigrés.

Family and death

Alakbarova has married twice. She gave birth to her daughter Natella. After her husband went away to the front as doctor he married again. In 1955 she married film director Latif Safarov and gave birth to her son Bashir. Her husband committed suicide. After that she devoted herself to her children and to her career. In 1992 her daughter Natella died and it affected Alakbarova's health and she died a year after, at the age of 70.

Discography

  • Axşam (Qaş qaralır)
  • Ayrılıq
  • Aldatmayaq bir-birimizi
  • Ay Qız
  • Ağlaya-ağlaya
  • Bir könül sındırmışam
  • Bakı
  • Dərələr
  • Gəl səhərim
  • Gedək üzü küləyə
  • Oxu gözəl
  • Neylərəm (İmaməddin Nəsimi / Süleyman Ələsgərov)
  • Sən mənim, mən sənin
  • Sənsən ürəyim
  • Səslərəm səni
  • Kəsmə şikəstə
  • Küsüb məndən
  • Lay-lay
  • İnanmıram
  • Təkcə ümid qalsın
  • Tez gəl
  • Töhfə
  • Mirzə-hüseyn segahı
  • Məhəbbət
  • Ola bilməz
  • Vağzalı çalınır.
  • Fizuli Kantatası
  • Yavaş-yavaş
  • Hardasan

References

  1. ^ Our Last Conversation by Rafael Huseynov. Azerbaijan International. Summer 1993. Retrieved 27 August 2006

External links

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