Zahid Guliyev

Zahid Guliyev was born in 1961 in Djabrayil. Khanende is one of the continuers of Karabakh traditions of mugam. His father was on of the well-known Karabakh ashygs and was performing dastans (saga) and mugams with a great adroitness.

Professional knowledge Zahid Guliyev got in Baku and finished the Azerbaijan State Music School in 1986, attended classes of great mugam masters as Sahib Shukurov, Narmian Aliyev, Hajibaba Huseynov.

The same year he was awarded to the second place in contest in honor of Jabbar Garyagdyoglu. In 1986 in the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic society was created trio named after Jabbar Garyagdyoglu consisting of Zahid Guliyev khanende, Mohlet Muslumov tarzen (tar player) and Fakhraddin Dadashov kamancha player.

They popularized Azerbaijan mugam highly by performing it in many countries of the world. Mugam dastgahs as “Shur”, “Mahur Hindi”, “Chahargah”, “Bayaty Shiraz” in khanende’s performance are saved in the gold foundation of a radio.