Nasiba Abdullayeva

Nasiba Abdullayeva was born on 15 November 1961 in Samarkand. As a child she studied accordion at a music school, and she worked as a school music teacher.

In 1980 she became a soloist of the newly formed vocal-instrumental ensemble “Samarkand”; the albums “Bari gal” and “Samarkand” came out that year. In 1989 she graduated from the Tashkent institute of culture and began working at the Uzbek State Philharmonic; her first solo album, “Ayriliq”, followed in 1990.

Later albums include “Sog'inch” (2000), “Umr bahori” (2002), “Eslanar” (2006) and “Baxt o'zi nimadur?” (2014). She left the stage for two years in 2000 and returned in 2002. She performs pop and folk songs in Uzbek, Persian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, Tajik, Russian and other languages. In 2018 a fragment of her song “Farida” was used in a Fendi advertisement.

Since 2004 she has taught in the pop performance department of the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan; in 2023 she became a professor.

She was named Honoured Artist of the Uzbek SSR in 1987 and People's Artist of Uzbekistan in 1993, and received the orders “Mehnat shuhrati” (1999) and “For Selfless Service” (2018). In 2022 she was named People's Artiste of Azerbaijan.