Muslim Magomaev

The host of the program "Themes" Peter Vail: the man of the day of Radio Liberty on August 16 - singer Muslim Magomaev, who is 60 years old. Muslim Magomaev was born in Baku in 1942. He has been engaged in singing from the age of 13. At 18 he became a laureate of the World Youth and Students Festival in Helsinki. Since 1963 - soloist of the Baku Opera and Ballet Theater. He went through an internship at the La Scala Milan Theater. From 1975 to 1989 he led the Azerbaijani pop-symphonic orchestra. Its repertoire has more than 600 works. The person of the day Radio Liberty will be presented by a music critic Alexei Filippov:

Alexey Filippov: In recent years, Muslim Magomaev is somehow out of sight. He does not appear on television, interviews with him do not appear in newspapers. And to me, frankly, it seems that this is a rather decent position. In recent years, Soviet popularity has become a worthy coin. Based on their past, on their Soviet glory, people are making themselves now, and very often Soviet popularity, in fact, is a myth, and Magomaev was popular, like no one else. I perfectly remember the crowds of those who want to get to his concerts, I remember how our family in the 70s, when I was still a child, watched a live broadcast from concerts on a black and white TV. Then we learned that he then sang patients, with a temperature of 38. But he was magnificent.

Magomaev, like no one else, is a reflection of our past, our Soviet past, and not his worst hypostasis. He is the embodiment of the old Baku, Baku, which is not now, the city that has gone to the bottom, and even the faces of people there are now others. He was taught a woman by the name of Mikaelyan, a teacher of the conservatory and professor Vladimir Fedorovich An endorovich. He is a product of an international, multinational city, which, for well -known reasons, has now disappeared. And he lived his life extremely worthy. He really did not have a single song in which the word "party" would have sounded. In this regard, he is also a reflection of our past, this strange late -Soviet era, when an almost official artist could become a man who became famous for bringing Neapolitan songs, songs by Enriko Carruzo and Tito Rush, who first sounded from the scenes of the Tchaikovsky hall ...

He was real, he was a really large, powerful singer who sang from his heart. This cannot be repeated artificially. He was alone and probably remained like that.