Sevil Magsud gizi Hajiyeva ( az, Sevil Hacıyeva, italic=no; 3 October 196812 September 2000) was an Azerbaijani singer and

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of the music groups and .

Life and career

Sevil Hajiyeva was born on 3 October 1968 in Azerbaijan's capital

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and graduated from the

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department of

Baku Academy of Music The Hajibeyov Baku Academy of Music (Azeri: ''Hacıbəyov adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası'') is a music school in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was established in 1920 in Baku and was previously known as the Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. H ...

(then called Azerbaijan State Conservatory). In the late 1980s, she became one of the most prominent Azerbaijani singers. At that time she participated in the and Yurmala-89 song contests. As a lead vocalist, she became primarily associated with the music group Karvan. There, she sang her

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"Şahzadə" (Prince). After Karvan's breakup, she was invited to sing in the vocal quartet Qaya by the group's art manager . There she sang until the mid-1990s, after which she disappeared from the public eye and settled in the United States.

Death

On 12 September 2000, Hajiyeva died in

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from multiple gunshot wounds during an armed robbery. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.

References

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