Aziza

Aziza Abdurakhimovna Mukhamedova (; ; born 10 April 1964), known mononymously as Aziza, is an Uzbek–Russian singer-songwriter. Biography Early years Aziza Mukhamedova was born on 10 April 1964 in Tashkent, the capital of the Uzbek SSR, in a family of professional musicians. Her father, Abdurakhim Mukhamedov (1923–1980), composer, Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1975), veteran of the Great Patriotic War, half Uzbek and half Uyghur, came from a family of hereditary bakers. He died when Aziza was sixteen years old. Her mother, Rafika Akhmetshevna Mukhamedova (Haidarova; 1924–2015), was Tatar and originally from the village of Staraya Kulatka, Ulyanovsk Oblast, she was a soloist of the State Academic Choral Chapel of the Uzbek SSR, taught at a music school, worked as a conductor. Aziza is the youngest of three sisters. At the age of sixteen, Aziza began performing as a soloist in the Tashkent vocal and instrumental ensemble Sado.