Daler Nazarov () (born September 8, 1959) is a Tajik singer, composer and actor of Pamiri origin.

Biography

Daler Nazarov was born in the Former Soviet Republic of

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

. In the late 1970s, he created "Daler Nazarov's Band" which primarily focused on the rock genre and gained popularity. To his many fans, Daler Nazarov's band was regarded as the "Beatles" of Tajikistan. His songs "Agar on turki sherozi", "Zebo ba Zebo", "Chashmi kabudi dudi", "Chak-chaki boron", Dunyoi savdo bigzarad", "Hargiz az yod", "Nigori nozanin", "Bo perahani yosuman", "Telefoni sulh" were instant hits in the 1980s in the former Soviet Republic of

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and

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. In 2008, the Tajik newspaper Avesta included Nazarov in the list of the hundred richest and most influential people in the country. In 1988, Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev joined his group and the duo collaborated for several years under "Daler Nazarov"s band. His band included the best musicians of the time, Muboraksho Mirzoshoyev, Ikbolsho Zavkibekov, Yadidya Ilyaev, Anvarhso Ghulomhaydarov, Firuz Khalilov, Daler Khalilov, Rustam Rahimov, and Zarif Pulatov. He has lived in

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

, the capital of

for most of his life, but had to leave the country in the early 1990s due to a civil war that ended around 1997. For the next few years, he lived in

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, before returning to Dushanbe. Among his recent work is music for feature movies. Nazarov is of the Pamiri ethnic group and many of his songs are in

Shughni language Shughni or Shughnani-Rushani is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group.Karamšoev, Dodchudo K. (1988–99). ''Šugnansko-russkij slovar''. 3 vols. Moskva: Nauka. (Vol. 2), / (Vol. 3) Its distribution is in the ...

Filmography

*Yunosti pervoe utro, composer, (1979) * Kumir, composer and actor, (1988) *Tonnel, composer, (1993) * Luna Papa, composer, (1999), ''Moon Father'' *Rozhdenstvenskaya mysteriya, composer, (2000), ''The Christmas Miracle'' *England, composer, (2000) *Statue of Love, composer, (2003) * The Suit, composer, (2003), (The Suit, aka Shik – il vestito, Italy, aka Costume, Le, France) *Meistersinger: The sound of Russia, composer, (2003), (Big Bones – Big Business, aka Chasse à l'os en Sibérie, France) *Angel na dorogakh, composer, (2003), ''Angel on the Road'' *Die Sibirische Knochenjagd, composer, (2004) * Sex & Philosophy, composer and actor, (2005) *Shaere zobale-ha, composer, (2005), ''Poet of the wastes'' *Bobo, composer, (2008) *

Opium War The First Opium War ( zh, t=第一次鴉片戰爭, p=Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Chinese Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1 ...

, composer, (2008) *The Man Who Came with the Snow, composer, (2009) *Mirror Without Reflection, composer, (2014) *The Teacher, composer, (2014) *Bunker, composer, (2019)

References

External links

Official Website
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Some of his videos on youtube
1959 births Living people Pamiri people 20th-century Tajikistani male singers Tajikistani actors 20th-century Tajikistani musicians 21st-century Tajikistani singers 20th-century Tajikistani actors 21st-century Tajikistani actors {{Tajikistan-bio-stub