Nasiba Abdullaeva: самаркандская жемчужина

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Nasiba Abdullaeva (Uzbek: Nasiba Abdullayeva) is Soviet and Uzbek pop singer, People's artist of Uzbekistan (1993), People's artist of Azerbaijani (2022). She has performed songs in Uzbek, Persian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Tajik, Russian and other languages.

Nasiba Abdullaeva was born on November 15, 1961, in Samarkand in a family of workers, father Melik Yarmukhamedov and mother Khalchuchuk Halimakulova, was the youngest seventh child.

As a child, she studied at a music school, accordion class. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, she worked as a music teacher at school.

In 1980, Nasiba was invited as a soloist to the newly organized vocal-instrumental ensemble "Samarkand". In the same year, two albums were released with songs performed by her – "Bari Gal" and "Samarkand". Upon graduation in 1989 from the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Cultureshe began to work at the Uzbek State Philharmonic.

In 1990 she released her first solo album "Ayriliq (Separation)". After a divorce from her husband in 2000, she left the stage for two years.