Sekhavet Mammadov

Mammadov Sekhavet was born in 23.10.1953 in village Abdal-Gulably of Agdam and died in 30.09.1991in Baku. He was one of worthy continuers of school of Karabakh Mugam performance. He has come to art since early years.

His gentle-sung of tasnifs and folk songs have made him favorite among the people. His professional career began from1970.

Sekhavet Mammadov got his education, first in Governmental Music School of Azerbaijan in mugam class, and then in Azerbaijan State University of Art and Culture. Subtleties of mugam art learnt from the great master of mugam Hajibaba Huseynov.

Except immortalizing traditions of Karabakh khanendes in style of performance, he also differed in original singing. He had unique quality in the performances, especially in such dastgahs of mugam as “Rast”, “Shahnaz”, “Mirza Husein segahy” and also in zarbi mugam tafsirs as “Hejraty”, “Semai-Shams”.

Such songs as “Sary Bulbul”, “Azad bir gushdum” performed by him were widespread among the people. His tours in France, Germany, Israel, Austria, Nicaragua and India have passed with big success. Khanende’s disks made on a basis of mugam and tasnifs have been let out as in Azerbaijan, also in Ukraine and Germany.