Today is Muslim Magomaev's birthday

Today would have been the 83rd birthday of world-famous opera and pop singer Muslim Magomayev.

Muslim Magomet oglu Magomayev was born on August 17, 1942, in Baku.

His father, Magomet Magomayev, a theater artist, died at the front 15 days before the victory in the Great Patriotic War, his mother - Aishet Magomayeva (stage name - Kinzhalova), was a dramatic actress and Stalin scholarship recipient. His paternal grandfather - (Abdul) Muslim Magomayev, an Azerbaijani composer whose name is given to the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall, is one of the founders of Azerbaijani classical music.

About his mother's origin, M.Magomayev wrote that she was born in Maikop, her father was ethnically Turkish, and her mother was half Adyghe, half Russian. About his father's origin, he said that his mother was Tatar (his grandmother Bagdagul-Jamal was the sister of Ali and Khanafi Teregulov), but the origin of his father's ancestors is unknown.

M.Magomayev himself always considered himself Azerbaijani.