Elariz Mammadoghlu (
Azerbaijani: Elariz Məmmədoğlu) (born 17 December 1964,
Baku
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) is an
Azerbaijani singer.
Personal life
Elariz Mammadoghlu was born on 17 December 1964. He attended Huseyn Javid Secondary School #132, and was a soloist in the choir. In 1982, he joined the faculty of directing the
Mirzagha Aliyev State Art Institute. From a period of 1983 to 1985, he sang in military bases in
Leningrad
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,
Petrozavodsk
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...
, and
Murmansk
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.
Career
Elariz started composing songs since he was 7 years old,
but started performing when he was 16. From 1992 to 1994, he performed as a musician, and has continued to sing from 1994 on. He began professional singing in 1997. He is a
lyrical tenor
A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below midd ...
and has an extensive
repertoire
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. Elariz also sings in the
folk pop
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Musica ...
genre, and is able to sing in multiple languages.
In 2018, he won a
green card
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lottery and moved to the US, where he works as a singer in Baku restaurant.
Discography
*2000:
*Devuşka v pesoçnom sarafane
*Tup-Tup
*2001:
*Dans-Dans
*2002:
*Abşeron torpağı
*2003:
*Guya
*Doroqa
Filmography
*Bir dəfə Qafqazda (film, 2007)
*Kişiləri qoruyun (film, 2006)
*Qış nağılı. I film (film, 2002)
*Məhəllə (film, 2003)
*Məşədi İbad-94 (film, 2005)
*"Moskva-Bakı" qatarı (film, 2005)
*Oyunçu (film, 2008)
*Yanmış körpülər (film, 2003)
References
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21st-century Azerbaijani male singers
1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Baku