Brilliant Suleyman gyzy Dadashova ( ; born 15 September 1959Бриллиант Дадашева подтверждает свое турецкое гражданство
23 saylı Nəsimi-Səbayıl seçki dairəsi üzrə seçicilərin daimi siyahısı
or 1965, according to other sources)Kim harada və nə vaxt doğulub? (SİYAHI)
. anspress.com is an Azerbaijani pop singer.

Life

In 1986 she participated in the annual International Youth Festival in Moscow. Two years later, she won the All-Union Pop Singers Contest, a singing competition among representatives of the

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. In 1990, she graduated from the Azerbaijan National Culture and Arts Institute. In 1995, her song "Züleyha" hit the top 10 in Russian charts. In 1997, Dadashova was among the musicians in the album ''Landet vi kommer fra'' ("The Land We Came From", released by Kirkelig Kulturverksted in

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), which included Azerbaijani folk songs sung in Azerbaijani and Norwegian by the Azerbaijani soloists and the Norwegian choir SKRUK. In 1999 Dadashova was elected to the Baku City Council. In 2012 her song "Vokaliz" (a 2001 vocal improvisation of the Azerbaijani folk dance tunes "Meydan" and "Baki", as well as Vagif Garayzadeh's "Novruzu" musical composition) became an issue of controversy after allegedly having been performed by the

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n singer Varduhi Vardanyan, who was accused of violating copyright. Vardanyan vehemently denied the accusations and said that the song is a traditional Armenian folk song. Her seventh album, ''Saninlayam'' ("I'm with You"), was released in September 2002, and was dedicated to the memory of composer Rafig Babayev. She released another studio album, titled ''Masal Dunyam'', in

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and Turkey in August 2008. The song "Per sempre" with Adriano Celentano was published in 2021. Dadashova is married to stage actor Adalat Hajiyev and has a son. In March 2011, she announced that she had filed for divorce due to a long-term complicated relationship. They were married in the late 1980s and were still married as of 2020.Brilliant Dadashova about her husband: "Everyone thinks ..."
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References

External links

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Dadashova's Homepage at brilliantdadasova.com
* (videoclip shot in 2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dadashova, Brilliant 1959 births Living people 20th-century Azerbaijani women singers Musicians from Baku People's Artists of Azerbaijan Soviet Azerbaijani people Turkish-language singers of Azerbaijan 21st-century Azerbaijani women singers