Aziza Russian Singer From Tashkent

Early life

Aziza, whose full name is Aziza Abdurakhimovna Mukhamedova, is a Russian singer and composer. She was born on 10 April 1964 in Tashkent, then the capital of the Uzbek SSR, into a family of professional musicians, and she is the youngest of three sisters.

At sixteen she started performing as a soloist with the Tashkent vocal and instrumental ensemble Sado. She studied at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan, and in 1988, after finishing her studies, she was sent to the third All-Union television competition of young performers of Soviet pop songs in Jūrmala, in the Latvian SSR. She did not win a prize there, but she was given the audience award.

Career

In 1989 Aziza moved from Tashkent to Moscow, and her solo career began there. Her song "Tvoya ulybka" became a hit, and her debut album, Aziza, was released in the same year. In 1993 she reached the final of the Russian television festival Song of the Year with the song "Za svoyu lyubov". She came back to the stage in 1995 with new songs, and in 1997 she released the album Vsyo ili nichego.

In 1999 she began working with Stas Namin, and the result was a set of pop-rock songs with an oriental influence in her repertoire. Her recordings are classed as pop music and pop rock, and piano is the instrument listed for her. The album Cherez stolko let appeared in 2003, the same year as the compilation Zvyozdnaya kollektsiya, and the compilation Lyubovnoye nastroyeniye followed in 2004.

In 2006 she performed the song "Etot mir" together with Igor Talkov Jr. In 2007 she took part in the NTV music contest You Are a Superstar! and won in every nomination. Her 2008 album Razmyshleniye, produced by Viacheslav Voron, contains songs that she mostly wrote herself. Po beregu shansona followed in 2009, Mlecny put in 2013 and Ray nezemnoy in 2014.

In 2015 she won the second season of the Channel One show Toch-v-Toch, in which performers take on the personas of other artists. On 6 October of that year she sang "Proshche ne ponyat" at the gala concert of the 14th international competition of young performers New Wave in Sochi. From September 2016 she was a participant in the show's super season.

Her studio album My schastlivy was released in 2019, alongside the compilations Duety, Neizdannoye, Izbrannoye and The Best. She issued the singles "Ryabina" and "Ya khochu iskupatsya v lyubvi" in 2020, and "Lyubimyye ne umirayut" in 2023. In 2021 she took part in the second season of the Russian version of The Masked Singer, appearing in the costume of a Penguin.

Recognition

In 2023 Aziza received The Leaders of the Era Award. Her official YouTube channel had about 113,000 subscribers in January 2025.