Baimurat Allaberiyev ( tg, Баймурод Аллабердиев, russian: Баймурат Аллабердиев; born 20 February 1971) also known as Tajik Jimmy (russian: Таджик Джимми), is a vocalist and musician from

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

of Uzbek ethnic origin. He was discovered while working in a warehouse as a result of a colleague recording him performing a cover of " Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja" from the Bollywood movie "

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" with a cell phone and posting it on the internet. Since that time, he has moved to

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and performed there and elsewhere in

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in theaters and night clubs. He has appeared in the successful Russian comedy films ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' New Husband''.

References

News report on Tajik Jimmy's success in 2009
* Performing 'Soviet' Film Classics: Tajik Jimmy and the Aural Remnants of Indian Cinema." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (2013): 227-242 by Andrew Chapman, University of Texas at San Antonio, Lead Editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

External links

YouTube clip of Baimurat performing "Jimmy Aaja"YouTube clip of Baimurat performing the song "Goron"
Tajikistani people of Uzbek descent 21st-century Tajikistani male singers Living people 1971 births {{Asia-musician-stub