Batyr Zakirov Biography Wikipedia

They met during their studies at the Moscow Conservatory [2], got married and soon the first -born - Batyr was born. He grew up in a hospitable house, which was often visited by the leading Uzbek artists and singers of that time. The atmosphere of art and creativity had all children in the family from an early age. So the musical artistic dynasty of the Zakirovs was formed in Tashkent.

After eight years, Batyr enters the preparatory department of the Tashkent Conservatory, having graduated, which becomes a student in the vocal class. However, the discovered pulmonary tuberculosis forces to leave a musical education and Zakirov enters the director's faculty of the Tashkent Theater-Art Institute named after Despite a heavy ailment, he continues to sing, taking part in the creation of the first pop collective in Uzbekistan - Youth Youth, which includes the World Youth and Students in Moscow, for the first time in his performance, a song in Arabic “On the Svetoch of my Arab Tango” [3], under his second, was performed by his second.

The name has become very famous and popular in the USSR. Yang Frenkel [4] arranged the song. Soon Zakirov is headed by the newly created pop orchestra of Uzbekistan, whose conductor was Alexander Dvoskin [5]. In addition to Batyr, his sister Louise, as well as Elmira Urazbaev, work in the orchestra. From the end of the x, the singer becomes popular in the USSR by the performer of songs of various genres - these are opera arias, Uzbek folk songs, songs of Soviet composers and foreign hits, performed almost always in the original language.

He sings Azerbaijani, Iranian, Afghan, Turkish, Indian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, French songs. In the year, the disease worsened and Zakirov in Moscow makes a heavy, but successful operation was removed one easy. Doctors do not recommend singing him for at least two years and the period of forced silence was not spent in vain. He edited his early verses for printing, invented a cycle of fairy tales for children's magazines.

On the Republican Radio Batyr, together with his wife, actress Erkel Malikbaeva, carried out a staging of this fairy tale. For three days a record was recorded in the Great Radio Studio. The role of the little prince was played by the wife. After the rehabilitation period, he again begins to perform with concerts. Record records with new songs are regularly recorded. In the summer of the year, Batyr Zakirov with a triumph performs on stage in the famous Parisian Olympia in France.

In the year, he participates in the filming of the New Year's Musical film “Abduction”, where, together with his sister, Louise performs “Song of Happiness”.

In the year, he became the artistic director of the Tashkent Music Hall organized by him at the same time-the director and leading soloist, where he continued to work on the combination of oriental folklore with modern pop trends. The most famous fruit of the joint work of the team was the musical “Journey of the Sinbad-Moreca”, whose script was written by Mark Zakharov and Alexander Shirvindt, and made Zakirov together with Zakharov.

The artist of the performance was George Jungwald-Khilkevich. The musical was a great success, but unfortunately it was never shot on the film. There was no record. The troupe actively toured, but the lack of its own stage site, financial and organizational difficulties led to the fact that in the year the Tashkent Music Hall was disbanded the last concert took place in Irkutsk a year earlier [6].

After that, Zakirov began to act with the programs, accompanied by the Yalla ensemble, led by his brother Farruch. The singer was talented in many other areas of creativity. Uzbek literary magazines willingly printed poems, stories and essays of Batyrov. He painted well. In the year, film director Elher Ishmukhamedov began work on the multi -part film "Youth of the Genius" about the children's and youth years of Avicenna, inviting to the main roles of the Zakirovs: Batyr - to play his father, and his eldest son Bakhtiyar - for the role of Avicenna.

At the end of the year, the state of health of Batyr Zakirov worsened sharply. Doctors made a disappointing diagnosis - cirrhosis of the liver in the last stage [4]. Treatment this time did not give a result. The People's Artist died on January 23 of the year in a Tashkent hospital and was buried in the Chigatai Memorial cemetery. Buyuk Hismatlary Podchun. Brother - Dzhamshid Karimovich Zakirov -, the Soviet and Uzbek actor of the theater and cinema, TV presenter, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan.

Brother - Farrukh Zakirov, singer, artistic director of the Uzbek ensemble "Yalla". Sister - Louise Zakirova, singer Batyr Zakirov was married twice. From his first marriage with actress Erkel Malikbaeva, with whom he lived for 16 years, he had two sons: Bakhtiyar and the Baucot. After a divorce in the year, he soon met the artist of ballet Galin, with whom he connected all his subsequent life.

In the year, they had a daughter of Rukhshan.