Gulomjon Yakubov

Gulomjon Yakubov (Yoqubov) is a People's Artist of Uzbekistan and of Karakalpakstan, a singer. He was born on 1 March 1950 and graduated from the Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute in 1973.

He began on the stage of the Uzbek State Philharmonic in the late 1960s (he was a soloist there in 1967–1968), was a soloist of the Jizzakh Music and Drama Theatre in 1973–1974, and from 1974 again a soloist of the Philharmonic. He is now named as a singer of the state institution Uzbekkoncert and has been on stage for about sixty years.

His repertoire includes songs about love, beauty and the homeland, songs of the Azerbaijani, Iranian, Turkish, Indian, Uyghur and other peoples, classical maqom and pop pieces. He created songs together with the composer and instrumentalist Abduhoshim Ismoilov. He is best known for “Zilola”, “Elim deb” and “Feruz”, and appeared in the TV series “Shaytanat” and the film “Katta hovli”.

He received the Melodiya firm's “Gold Disc” in 1985. In the independence years he was given the orders “Do'stlik” and “El-yurt hurmati”, and in March 2025, for his 75th birthday, the Order “For Great Services”. Each 1 March, on his birthday, he gives a solo concert at the Palace of Friendship of Peoples (in 2024, a programme of 30 songs, most of them new).