When is Muslim Magomayev's birthday? Muslim Magomayev: the story of his first unhappy marriage and his beloved daughter (photo shoot)

Muslim Magomayev was 18 years old, and already during these years the young man enjoyed wild success with girls. He studied at Baku music school, where I met a classmate, a beauty with romantic name Ophelia, and decided to marry her. Baidigul Muslim’s grandmother was so frightened by this that she hid her beloved grandson’s passport so that he “wouldn’t foolishly marry.”

Hidden passport and secret marriage

“Carefree youth is over - I fell in love,” recalled Muslim Magomayev. “It’s just like in the song: I met a girl with a crescent-shaped eyebrow... We started dating.” My uncle and aunt, knowing about my hobby and knowing my character, sensed something was wrong. But due to his natural delicacy, Uncle Jamal did not dare to start a manly conversation with me, and I still did not consider it necessary to open up to my uncle. And then one fine day my passport disappeared. It seems that it was my grandmother’s hand: she caught the dangerous moment in time - Ophelia and I had just decided to get married. In our yard lived a certain Olga Kasparovna Charskaya, in the past famous performer old romances. She was a very sociable woman and if she said something, she would shout to the whole yard. And so my grandmother hid my passport with her, because she understood that I would still find it at home. The neighbor, due to her sociability, could not keep the secret entrusted to her for long, and it all ended with me somehow in a cunning way I returned my passport."

19-year-old Muslim got married anyway, and secretly...

“Ophelia and I signed without telling anyone anything. I presented my family with a fait accompli. The reaction was restrained, I thought it would be worse. The grandmother was upset, and the saddened uncle grumbled:

- Do you want to be independent? Okay, let's try it, you're already an adult. But keep in mind, if you cry, we won’t understand.

Magomayev as a child with his mother

I began to live with Ophelia's family. Her father, an intelligent man, a chemist, worked at the Academy of Sciences. He was delicate, modest, and his mother-in-law... A mother-in-law is a mother-in-law. Everything worked out according to the law of family swings. Very soon the showdown began. I had to feed our small family, I had to urgently get a job.”

“You will not make a good husband!”

In his youthful marriage, Muslim had, frankly speaking, a hard time. His wife's relatives believed that he should earn money without sparing himself. The young man then dreamed of singing in opera house, albeit in a small way. But the wife’s relatives met these wishes of Muslim with hostility. The most unbearable thing for the singer was the constant reproaches: “You won’t make a good husband!” Muslim was accepted into the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Baku Air Defense District. But after that, Ophelia began to be burdened by the crazy tour schedule rising star. The young woman wanted her husband to always be with her.

“We traveled with the ensemble to different cities, including resort ones. There was success everywhere. In the ensemble I was paid decently for those times. The whirlwind of touring distracted me from domestic troubles. I didn’t want to return home from the trip; my character didn’t allow me to play the role of a decent family man.”

Then Chechen motifs began to sound in the singer’s life. At the invitation of friends, he and Ophelia moved to work in Grozny, the homeland of his great-grandfather Mohammed. Success awaited the soloist of the Grozny Philharmonic... But because of the greed of the director, Muslim for the first time in his life appreciated the taste of ordinary black bread with sprat.

Magomayev and Ophelia. first wife

“In windswept hotels, we fed bedbugs... I caught a cold while traveling around the villages, and screamed so loud in the mountains that I lost my voice. They found a good doctor for me in Grozny - a specialist in acupuncture. After two weeks, either from her needles or from silence, the voice returned. I started singing. But Ophelia could not stand our life like this and went home to Baku.”

The singer was tired of his miserable existence in Grozny, and after a few months he returned to Baku, but not to Ofelia’s family, but settled with Ramazan Khalilov (director of the Baku Opera House), the nephew of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, the son of one of the sisters of grandmother Baidigul.

“After Ophelia left Grozny for Baku, I decided that our life together was over, but when I learned that my wife was expecting a child, I returned to her house. Our daughter was born (1961), we named her Marina... But our family life it didn’t work out... Subsequently we broke up..."

This name was not chosen by my father by chance. Even at the age of 13, Muslim was in love with schoolgirl Marina and even wrote a song in her honor, which he performed on school holidays and parties. In the 70s, this composition became a hit.

“What can I say? - Muslim Magomayev recalled with a sigh about this page of life. — A boy at the age of 18 fell in love with a woman for the first time... My first reaction was to get married! Now it’s funny for me to talk about this frivolity of mine. But I am grateful to those times - ours short marriage, it lasted only one year, gave us a daughter. I'm very good daughter Marina - for which I thank Ophelia very much. And I don’t even want to remember what I endured in that family, so as not to traumatize Marina... Life became completely unbearable for me. They began to force me to earn money somewhere. But I knew one thing: I needed to sing in an opera house, even a small one. And they expected me to go to some team that paid more. But the most unbearable thing is the eternal lamentation: “You will not make a good husband.”

“Marina inherited my character and sharpened it in a feminine way. It turned out, alas, worse than mine..."

According to many, Muslim always paid “mad alimony” for his only daughter. Now Marina, along with her husband Alexander Kozlovsky and mother Ophelia, live in the USA, in Ohio. They have a seven-year-old son, Alen, Muslim’s grandson. By the way, the father-in-law Gennady Kozlovsky was a friend of Muslim, together they even wrote two songs.

“Then a friend went to America with his family. Unfortunately, he has already died. Alik - very good guy. At first, he and Marina talked for a long time on the phone, every day he called her in Baku, and it all ended with a wedding. Marina inherited my character and sharpened it in a feminine way. It turned out, alas, worse than mine..."

Marina Magomaeva with her husband and son.

Marina was very close to her father, and Muslim endlessly valued his friendly relationship with his daughter. Although Marina graduated from school as a pianist and was predicted to have a wonderful future as a musician, she chose a different path. The father said with tenderness: “I have a beautiful daughter, Marina, already an adult. At one time, her grandfather, an academician and chemist, persuaded her to study geodesy and cartography: apparently because of me, my wife’s family developed an allergy to music. Marina graduated from school with honors as a pianist, she was predicted to have a wonderful future as a musician, she plays amazingly from sight... But her daughter did not become a professional musician. I decided to find myself in someone else. I had no right to impose anything on her, give advice, much less interfere in her fate. We have friendly relations with her, and I greatly appreciate it...”

Muslim dreamed of performing on the same stage with his daughter.

Tamara Sinyavskaya in the life of Muslim Magomayev

All the women of the USSR were in love with Muslim Magomayev. His popularity was like mass hysteria. And the singer, by his own admission, could not even imagine that he would marry not Tamara Sinyavskaya, but someone else.

All the women of the USSR were in love with Muslim Magomayev. Not a single government concert, not a single New Year's “Blue Light” was complete without it. His popularity was similar to mass hysteria - in one of the cities, impulsive fans carried a car in which their idol was sitting. And the singer, by his own admission, could not even imagine that he would marry not Tamara Sinyavskaya, but someone else.

True love b

Muslim Magomaev and People's Artist USSR, opera singer Tamara Sinyavskaya lived together for 34 years. Before this, there were many different meetings in the singer’s life. “I never said that I was a monk. There have been enough beautiful women on my way... But all this is only up to Tamara Ilyinichna! - the singer said in one of the interviews.

Tamara Sinyavskaya became the most great love in the life of Magomayev. True, not only wife: when in his youth the artist entered a music school, he married his classmate Ophelia. The young couple had a daughter, Marina. But later the family broke up.

“A lot of gossip and rumors appeared about the time of my free life,” Muslim Magomayev later recalled. Fans and journalists even attributed to him an affair with Edita Piekha. They said that Muslim Magometovich sent ambassadors to the singer with a marriage proposal. According to another “legend,” when Piekha was in Paris, her husband, Bronevitsky, suddenly flew into her room and began looking for Magomayev under the bed.

After Magomayev’s meeting with Tamara Sinyavskaya, a young artist Bolshoi Theater— the public’s favorite stopped paying attention to other women. Later he admitted that he could not marry another woman - he and Tamara Ilyinichna real love, common interests and one thing...

"You are my melody"

They met at the Baku Philharmonic, which bears the name of Muslim Magomayev's grandfather, in 1972. Tamara Sinyavskaya recalls about that time: “When I was 29 years old, my affair with Muslim began. I then interned in Italy. Muslim called me every day and let me listen to new recordings. We talked a lot and for a long time. One can only imagine how much money these calls cost him.”

It was then that Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov wrote the song “You are my melody” for Muslim Magomaev. The singer immediately liked it, and after a few days it was recorded. Tamara Sinyavskaya was one of the first to hear the song - on the phone in distant Italy.

Two years after they met, Tamara Sinyavskaya and Muslim Magomayev got married. It is known that the singer herself was in no hurry to formalize this relationship. This continued until their mutual friend couldn’t stand it anymore, took their passports and took them to the registry office.

On November 23, 1974, they got married. On the same day, a wedding for one hundred people took place in one of the capital's restaurants. Another three hundred people, having learned about this event, gathered near the restaurant and chanted in unison for Magomayev to perform their favorite songs. On such a day, the singer could not refuse his fans and sang for an encore for half an hour at the open window of the restaurant.

After a noisy celebration in Moscow, the newlyweds went to Honeymoon to the groom's homeland - Baku. Sinyavskaya was received there as a “gyalin” - the daughter-in-law of all Azerbaijan. The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Republic, Heydar Aliyev, arranged for the newlyweds on this occasion gala reception at his dacha.

"The Tsar's Bride"

At first, the capital's bohemians gladly gossiped about disagreements between celebrities - the first years life together It was quite difficult for the spouses.

Both are strong creative personalities, both bright, extraordinary singers, both known and loved by the public - they could not share the pedestal with each other. During quarrels, Muslim Magomayev left home in anger and ran to his native Baku. And then, in oriental pomp and ceremony, he took the first step towards reconciliation - he gave his beloved huge bouquets of flowers, and organized performances in her honor.

“There was a case when Muslim Magomayev, returning from some trip, came to visit me on tour in Kazan,” recalls Tamara Sinyavskaya. — I sang Lyubasha in “ To the Tsar's Bride“, and during the intermission, when I went out to bow, they brought me a huge bouquet from him - I couldn’t be seen behind it. There were one hundred and fifty-four carnations! The whole room gasped. And, of course, when he appeared in the box, the audience was not in the mood for the opera.”

As a result, their union turned out to be one of the strongest star duets. When Tamara Sinyavskaya was asked why their union was so strong, she replied: “Perhaps the most important thing is love?.. And there are many common interests. Especially when we're talking about about music, about singing. As soon as Muslim sees someone’s performance on TV that evokes emotions, he immediately comes to me: “Did you hear “this”?!” And the evening of “questions and answers”, delight or indignation begins. Muslim - very good emotional person. But I must say that our tastes and assessments almost always coincide.”

“Besides love, affection there is another feeling. Deep respect. Even though we cling to each other there - it all happens very emotionally, loudly - but for three minutes.<…>We run into different rooms... and then come out: what was we talking about, did it rain? And that’s all,” Tamara Sinyavskaya shared her recipe for happiness in one of joint interviews. - “I respect Muslim very much for masculinity. He is wise."

Tamara Sinyavskaya was next to her husband before last minute. Only she knows what is behind the dry formulation “ long illness" At six in the morning on October 25, Tamara Sinyavskaya called an ambulance for her husband. The doctors rushed in literally five minutes later. Muslim Magomayev was unconscious. But all the doctors' efforts were in vain. At 6:49 am the singer's heart stopped.

Marina said goodbye to her father in Baku

October 29... In the hall of the Azerbaijani State Philharmonic, in the center of the stage, on a pedestal decorated with white roses, was installed closed coffin. The widow, Tamara Sinyavskaya, can hardly hold back her tears. She is reassured by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Nearby, Marina is crying bitterly. Due to problems with a visa, she could not come to say goodbye to her father in Moscow, but flew straight to Baku. She is supported by her husband, Alex. Ophelia really wanted to go to the funeral to once again see the man she loved so much in her youth. But she stayed in the USA with her grandson; they say her health does not allow her to make long-distance flights.

Name: Muslim Magomaev
Date of Birth: 17.08.1942
Age: 75 years old
Date of death: 25.10.2008.
Place of Birth: Baku city, Azerbaijan
Weight: 76 kg
Height: 1.80 m
Activity: operatic, crooner
Family status: married

To say that this man was incredibly popular in our then huge Soviet country, which means to say nothing. And this is not just a figure of speech, Muslim Magomayev is a whole era, the biggest star on the cultural horizon of the country at that time, a man high level culture, opera vocalist, pop singer, extraordinary composer.

Muslim Magomaev - Cranes. Muslim Magomaev - Zhuravli (The Cranes)

This gifted and hardworking person has not been with us for a long time, but Muslim Magomayev, his biography, years of life and cause of death are of interest to many people. His life was so bright and full that it is quite possible that it was for this reason that it ended so early. Many believe that this man was a real darling of fate, of course, this is so, but this is also his great merit. He multiplied and polished his natural talent with his incredible hard work, turning him into a real rare diamond.

We'll stop at this material at the most significant moments life of Muslim Magomayev. We'll tell you in brief description, based on the dates, how bright this one was short life. The difficulty is that it is impossible to describe in dry language dates and events so stormy life and space takeoff in creative career.

short biography

Let us immediately note that Muslim Magometovich was lucky enough to be born in the famous creative family Azerbaijan, which originates from his grandfather, the famous original composer, Muslim Magomayev. The father of the future brilliant singer and composer was also an extraordinary person, he found the application of his creative potential V applied arts. Talented artist worked in the most famous theaters Baku as a graphic designer, however, the war interrupted his creative life, Magomet Magomayev went to fight. He was no longer able to return home; he died in Berlin a few days before the victory, when his son was already three years old.

Magomayev was born at the most difficult time for the country, it was 1942, on August 17, Aishat Magomayeva, the mother of the future celebrity, gave the world an extraordinary personality. It should be noted that the famous singer’s mother was also a gifted person, a talented dramatic actress worked in the theater under the pseudonym “Dagger”, and was awarded a Stalin scholarship, which speaks of her creative merits.

Why did nature not be stingy and endowed the future vocalist not only with an amazing voice, the talent for a unique perception of music and the ability to compose it, but also with excellent external characteristics. Trying to understand such natural generosity, you inevitably pay attention to the genealogy, and with great interest you learn that several peoples have left their mark on it. Russian, Adyghe, Turkish and Tatar peoples turned out to be no strangers to the future Azerbaijani singer.

However, already in adulthood, Muslim Magomayev, whose biography we get acquainted with, learn about the years of his life and the cause of death, pronounced his famous phrase that Azerbaijan is his father and Russia is his mother, expressing all his love and devotion to these peoples.

Childhood

After the war, the boy was taken in by his father’s side, deciding that he would be better off in their family; his father’s brother Jamal made a decision with which Aishat was forced to agree. Mom, of course, missed her son, loved him very much, but understood that the boy needed a male upbringing and a large family. Left alone, she decided to continue her creative path and left for Vyshny Volochok, where she got a job at the local drama theater.

But love for her son did not give her the opportunity to live a full life, and Aishat decided to secretly take him to her place, taking him away from Azerbaijan. For some time they lived together, it seemed that life was getting better, she felt that her son also loved her very much. And Muslim, who was 9 years old at that time, was already quite meaningfully getting acquainted with theatrical life and its musical side. He showed organizational skills; he and his classmates created their own puppet theater, wrote plays and created characters for performances themselves.

But a year later, Jamal insisted that the boy return to his family and that was the end. Mom began to live her own life, got married and gave birth to two more children, Tatyana and Yuri.

Having finally moved to Baku, Muslim, who had previously shown musical abilities, began studying piano at the music school at the conservatory. Jamal’s family was highly intelligent and belonged to the elite Baku society; his uncle gave the boy everything he needed and sought to develop the child’s musical talent, which was obvious to everyone.

General education was given to the boy with great difficulty; he was completely absorbed in music, and his desire to study vocals was especially strong. So in 1956, fourteen-year-old Muslim became a student at the Baku Music College named after Zeynalli Asaf.

It's already started adulthood, filled with meaning, my favorite hobby of music was completely captivating. The first public performance took place secretly from everyone; in 1957, Muslim Magomayev (this is a biographical fact, studying which we get acquainted with the years of his life and the cause of death) performed on the stage of Baku sailors.

This performance captivated him completely, probably then he made a firm decision to forever connect his life with the stage. The fears of the teachers and uncle regarding the mutation of the voice were not justified and great prospects opened up for the singer.

The rapid start of a creative journey

In 1959, Muslim graduated from music school, continued to perform at various concerts, and two years later became a soloist in a professional song and dance ensemble at the Baku Military District. Concert activities did not interfere with the continuation of professional development young artist, the filigree work on developing the voice continued.

The first awards and prizes appeared, and in 1962 Muslim Magomayev went to his first performance at an international venue in Helsinki as part of our country’s delegation. Glory came with lightning speed and deafening, Muslim became a laureate at this festival of youth and students, performing the amazing song “Buchenwald Alarm”.

The older generation of our country remembers very well the impression of hearing the song, it was a real shock, goosebumps ran through the body, tears in the eyes and a lump in the throat. The country, which had recently defeated a terrible evil and lost its best sons, froze at such a performance, everyone asked who it was, what kind of phenomenon it was and were proud of such a compatriot.

Immediately after this incredible success, in the same year, Muslim Magomayev performs on the Kremlin stage at the Azerbaijani Art Festival and literally “wakes up” incredibly famous.

Magomayev literally burst into musical life country, conquered her not only with his voice, but also with his appearance and special manner of deporting himself with great dignity, while at the same time demonstrating natural modesty and intelligence. Everyone at that time was talking only about Magomayev and Gagarin’s flight into space; these were two almost equivalent events.

Life is like a bright comet

In 1960, Muslim Magomayev, as is known from his biography when familiarizing himself with the years of his life and the cause of death, married a classmate, about whom it is only known that her name was Ophelia; a year later they had to separate; even the birth of their daughter Maria did not save the marriage. Muslim suffered the divorce easily, he was captivated by his rapidly growing life with music, and the singer has always enjoyed incredible popularity among women.

Creativity brought more and more pleasure, contributing further growth mastery, and in 1963 Muslim Magomayev already had his first solo concert at one of the main venues in the country - concert hall named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. Professional growth in chamber art continues; Magomayev becomes a soloist at the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater named after Akhundov.

In 1964, Magomayev trained abroad, honing his opera skills in Italy, at the famous Milan opera house La Scala. After Italy, Magomayev tours the country with performances “ Barber of Seville" and "Tosca", the success was simply deafening, the entire intelligentsia of the country attended his performances.

The logical result of success was an invitation to work in the Bolshoi Theater troupe, but Magomayev chose creative freedom and versatile musical activity.

The successful performance in 1966 on the stage of the Paris Olympia was also appreciated by the French; Magomayev received an offer to sign a contract for a year.

However, in those days no one could make their own decisions about working abroad, even such great and popular artists. And to make it more clear, a whole company was launched against Magomayev, with the involvement of government agencies guarding socialist legality. Magomayev showed wisdom and did not go against the system, stay abroad forever, as the “Soviet dissidents” suggested to him, he also did not, being an unconditional patriot of his small homeland Azerbaijan and the country as a whole.

In 1969, when the campaign to discredit him ended, Muslim Magomayev, according to his biography, which we study his years of life and cause of death, was again able to perform on the Olympia stage. It must be said that 1968-1969 were especially successful in my creative career, the Golden Disc award at Cannes and the first prize at International festival in Sopot.

A new stage, both in his personal life and in his musical career

In 1972, a significant event occurred in the singer’s personal life; he met his future wife Tamara Sinyavskaya in Baku at the Russian festival musical art. The young people were seized by a feeling of attraction, they were united by many things, both were incredibly popular and recognized by both society and the authorities, young and beautiful, but the main thing, of course, was music.

Magomayev was a free man, although he is spoiled by female attention, but Sinyavskaya decided not to change her status quo married woman and left for an internship in Italy, with the firm intention of forgetting everything. As follows from her story, what was her surprise when she learned that she and Magomayev, who at that time also happened to be in Milan, were placed in the same room. The incident, of course, was settled, but Sinyavskaya decided that this was a sign of fate and did not resist the surging feeling with renewed vigor.

The Italian atmosphere and music itself united these two even more tightly. the most talented people. According to the stories of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov, many people were worried about this couple; the song “Orpheus” was written specifically for the situation, which became the anthem of their joint happiness. In 1974, they got married and lived together until the very end of the great artist, despite the fact that the relationship was difficult.

In the meantime, everything was going incredibly well, the year 73 became especially significant, Muslim Magomayev (a fact of the biography we are studying, as well as the years of his life and the cause of death) was awarded the highest title of “People’s Artist of the USSR.” In general, the 70s were simply a fantastic popularity of the artist, both in the country and abroad.

Continuing to tour the country, Magomayev did not leave the republic and in 1975 created a pop symphony orchestra there. Becoming artistic director created orchestra, it remains so for long years, up until 1989. In those days, not a single event took place without the participation of Muslim Magomayev. festive concert in the country, he is invited to all government events.

Stormy creative life didn’t let me relax even for a minute, Magomayev performs with different musical works, he is equally good both in opera and on the stage, arias, symphonies, followed by romances and pop compositions. It is impossible to even imagine how densely his life was filled with music. Moscow attracted more and more and did not want to let go, so in 1989 Magomayev, tired of constant moving, settled in Moscow for good.

Life becomes less decorated, and the woman you love is always nearby, but stressful life makes itself felt. Problems with the heart and blood vessels no longer allow him to work as before, Muslim Magomayev appears at concerts less and less, not missing even the most prestigious ones.

But after 4 years, at the age of 60, Magomayev decides to leave concert activities, but he is still active and does not quit his job. Together with Tamara Sinyavskaya, they devoted more time to rest, traveled, but there was less and less strength left. After 6 years, Magomayev died from an ischemic attack, next to him was his muse and the love of his life.

The beloved artist has passed away, but he will be remembered for a very long time with surprise from such a bright and talented personality and great gratitude.

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Failed singer Marina Magomaeva lives in the USA with her husband Alexander Kozlovsky and son Allen.

Daughter of the famous Soviet and Russian singer Marina could do brilliant career singers. Her illustrious father once dreamed about this. However, at the age of 16, she left for America with her mother and has since lived overseas, preferring the life of a housewife taking care of her family and son.

Marina Magomaeva-Kozlovskaya was born in the singer’s first marriage. While still studying at the Baku Music College, Magomayev fell passionately in love with his classmate Ophelia. The young artist was then eighteen years old. The couple got married, but a year later the marriage broke up; even the birth of a daughter could not save it.

In one of her interviews, Marina said: “In Baku, snow is a rare occurrence, but when I was born it snowed, and my dad called me Snegurochka. This name stuck with me. I was little, but dad seemed tall and very cheerful to me. He loved to joke around."

Marina graduated music school in piano class. The father dreamed of performing on the same stage with his daughter, and although she disappointed him, Magomayev never reproached Marina. He valued his friendship with her most of all.

IN currently she lives in America with her loved ones - her husband Alexander Kozlovsky (son of the author of the lyrics of the song “Blue Eternity”) and heir Allen.

The “Tonight” program aired an interview with his grandson famous artist. “I remember the dacha, I remember Muslim, although I was only four years old. I remember how I swam in the pool, and Muslim walked next to me and conducted,” recalled Magomayev’s grandson Allen.

The singer considers her husband’s daughter from his first marriage to be very talented. After Magomayev divorced her mother Ophelia, he continued to communicate with the heiress.

“That's not the right word. But this was already a conversation between an adult and a growing daughter, who had already begun to understand what music was. She is very musical, but for some reason she graduated from a geographical institute... And Alex, by the way, is a singer. In his youth he had a sonorous beautiful voice. But then he grew up and decided to become the husband of Muslim's daughter. Alex went to America and took Marina there. Now she works as a mother,” Sinyavskaya said in the “Tonight” program, which was dedicated to memory legendary performer and composer.

The artist’s relatives and friends gathered in the broadcast studio and shared their memories of him.

Muslim Magomaev. "Tonight"

Muslim Magomayev is a whole era, the biggest star on the cultural horizon of the country at that time, a man of a high level of culture, an opera vocalist, pop singer, and an extraordinary composer. Until now, fans are interested in the biography, years of life and cause of death of Muslim Magomayev.

His life was so bright and full that it is quite possible that it was for this reason that it ended so early.

Many believe that this man was a real darling of fate, of course, this is so, but this is also his great merit. He multiplied and polished his natural talent with his incredible hard work, turning him into a real rare diamond.

PHOTO: Muslim Magomayev at the peak of his musical career

In this material we will focus on the most significant moments in the life of Muslim Magomayev. We will tell you in a brief description, based on the dates, how bright this short life was.

Let us immediately note that Muslim Magometovich was lucky enough to be born into an illustrious creative family of Azerbaijan, which originates from his grandfather, the famous original composer, Magomet Magomayev.

The father of the future brilliant singer and composer was also an extraordinary person; he found the application of his creative potential in the applied arts.

The talented artist worked in the most famous theaters of Baku as a graphic designer, however, the war interrupted his creative life, Magomet Magomayev went to fight. He was no longer able to return home; he died in Berlin a few days before the victory, when his son was already three years old.

Magomayev was born at the most difficult time for the country, it was 1942, on August 17, Aishat Magomayeva, the mother of the future celebrity, gave the world an extraordinary personality.

It should be noted that the famous singer’s mother was also a gifted person, a talented dramatic actress worked in the theater under the pseudonym “Dagger”, and was awarded a Stalin scholarship, which speaks of her creative merits.

Why did nature not be stingy and endowed the future vocalist not only with an amazing voice, the talent for a unique perception of music and the ability to compose it, but also with excellent external characteristics.

Trying to understand such natural generosity, you inevitably pay attention to the genealogy, and with great interest you learn that several peoples have left their mark on it. The Russian, Adyghe, Turkish and Tatar peoples turned out to be not at all alien to the future Azerbaijani singer.

However, already in adulthood, Muslim Magomayev, whose biography we get acquainted with, learn about the years of his life and the cause of death, uttered his famous phrase that “Azerbaijan is his father, and Russia is his mother,” expressing all his love and devotion to this peoples.

Childhood

After the war, the boy was taken in by his father’s side, deciding that he would be better off in their family; his father’s brother Jamal made a decision with which Aishat was forced to agree.

Mom missed her son, loved him very much, but understood that the boy needed a male upbringing and a large family. Left alone, she decided to continue her creative path and left for Vyshny Volochok, where she got a job at the local drama theater.

But love for her son did not give her the opportunity to live a full life, and Aishat decided to secretly take him to her place, taking him away from Azerbaijan. For some time they lived together, it seemed that life was getting better, she felt that her son also loved her very much.

And Muslim, who was 9 years old at that time, was already quite meaningfully getting acquainted with theatrical life and its musical side. He showed organizational skills; he and his classmates created their own puppet theater, wrote plays and created characters for performances themselves.

But, a year later, Jamal insisted that the boy return to his family, and that was the end. Mom began to live her own life, got married and gave birth to two more children, Tatyana and Yuri.

Having finally moved to Baku, Muslim, who had shown musical abilities before, began studying piano at the music school at the conservatory.

Jamal’s family was highly intelligent and belonged to the elite Baku society; his uncle gave the boy everything he needed and sought to develop the child’s musical talent, which was obvious to everyone.

General education was given to the boy with great difficulty; he was completely absorbed in music, and his desire to study vocals was especially strong. So, in 1956, fourteen-year-old Muslim became a student at the Baku Music College named after Zeynalli Asaf.

A fully adult life began, filled with meaning, and my favorite hobby of music was completely captivating. The first public performance took place secretly from everyone; in 1957, Muslim Magomayev performed on the stage of Baku sailors.

This performance captivated him completely, probably then he made a firm decision to forever connect his life with the stage. The fears of the teachers and uncle regarding the mutation of the voice were not justified and great prospects opened up for the singer.

The rapid start of a creative journey

In 1959, Muslim graduated from music school, continued to perform at various concerts, and two years later became a soloist in a professional song and dance ensemble at the Baku Military District. Concert activity did not interfere with the continued professional development of the young artist; filigree work on developing his voice continued.

The first awards and prizes appeared, and in 1962 Muslim Magomayev went to his first performance at an international venue in Helsinki, as part of the delegation of our country. Glory came with lightning speed and deafening, Muslim became a laureate at this festival of youth and students, performing the amazing song “Buchenwald Alarm”.

The older generation of our country remembers very well the impression of hearing the song - it was a real shock, goosebumps ran through the body, tears in the eyes and a lump in the throat.

The country, which had recently defeated a terrible evil and lost its best sons, froze at such a performance - they were proud of such a compatriot.

Immediately after this incredible success, in the same year, Muslim Magomayev performs on the Kremlin stage at the Azerbaijani Art Festival, and literally “wakes up” incredibly famous.

Muslim Magomayev with Soviet leaders of that time

Magomayev literally burst into the musical life of the country, conquering it not only with his voice, but also with his special manner of deportment with great dignity, while demonstrating natural modesty and intelligence.

Everyone at that time was talking only about Magomayev and Gagarin’s flight into space; these were two almost equivalent events.

Life is like a bright comet

Muslim Magomaev - not a day without music

In 1960, Muslim Magomayev, as is known from his biography, when familiarizing himself with the years of his life and the cause of death, married a classmate, about whom it is only known that her name was Ophelia. A year later they had to separate; even the birth of their daughter Maria did not save the marriage.

Muslim endured the divorce easily, he was captivated by his rapidly growing life along with music, and the singer has always enjoyed incredible popularity among women.

Awards literally rained down on Muslim Magomayev

Creativity brought more and more pleasure, contributing to the further growth of skill, and in 1963, Muslim Magomayev already held his first solo concert at one of the main venues in the country - the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Professional growth in chamber art continues; Magomayev becomes a soloist at the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater named after Akhundov.

In 1964, Magomayev trained abroad, honing his opera skills in Italy, at the famous Milan opera house La Scala. After Italy, Magomayev toured the country with the performances “The Barber of Seville” and “Tosca”, the success was simply deafening, the entire intelligentsia of the country attended his performances.

The logical result of success was an invitation to work in the Bolshoi Theater troupe, but Magomayev chose creative freedom and versatile musical activity.

The successful performance in 1966 on the stage of the Paris Olympia was also appreciated by the French; Magomayev received an offer to sign a contract for a year.

However, in those days no one could make their own decisions about working abroad, even such great and popular artists. And to make it more clear, a whole campaign was launched against Magomayev, with the involvement of government agencies that guard socialist legality.

Magomayev showed wisdom and did not go against the system, stay abroad forever, as the “Soviet dissidents” suggested to him, he also did not, being an unconditional patriot of his small homeland of Azerbaijan and the country as a whole.

Muslim Magomayev - short rest

In 1969, when the campaign to discredit him ended, Muslim Magomayev, according to his biography, which we study his years of life and cause of death, was again able to perform on the Olympia stage.

It must be said that the years 1968-1969 were especially successful in his creative career, with the Golden Disc award at Cannes and first prize at the International Festival in Sopot.

A new stage, both in my personal life and in my musical career.
In 1972, a significant event occurred in the singer’s personal life; he met his future wife Tamara Sinyavskaya in Baku, at a festival of Russian musical art.

The young people were seized by a feeling of attraction, they were united by many things, both were incredibly popular and recognized by both society and the authorities, young and beautiful, but the main thing, of course, was music.

Magomayev was a free man, although he was spoiled by female attention, but Sinyavskaya decided not to change her status unmarried woman and left for an internship in Italy, with the firm intention of forgetting everything.

As follows from her story, what was her surprise when she learned that she and Magomayev, who at that time also happened to be in Milan, were placed in the same room. The incident, of course, was settled, but Sinyavskaya decided that this was a sign of fate and did not resist the surging feeling with renewed vigor.

The Italian atmosphere and music itself united these two talented people even more tightly. According to the stories of Pakhmutova and Dobronravov, many people were worried about this couple; the song “Orpheus” was written specifically for the situation, which became the anthem of their joint happiness. In 1974, they got married and lived together until the very end of the great artist, despite the fact that the relationship was difficult.

In the meantime, everything was going incredibly well, the year 73 became especially significant in the biography of Muslim Magomayev; during his life, before his death, he was awarded the highest title of “People’s Artist of the USSR.” You have to understand that the 70s were simply a fantastic period of popularity for the artist, both in the country and abroad.

Continuing to tour the country, Magomayev did not leave the republic and in 1975 created a pop-symphony orchestra there. Having become the artistic director of the created orchestra, he remained so for many years, until 1989. In those days, not a single holiday concert was held in the country without the participation of Muslim Magomayev; he was invited to all government events.

A stormy creative life did not allow him to relax even for a minute, Magomayev performs with various musical works, he is equally good both in opera and on the stage, arias, symphonies, followed by romances and pop compositions.

It is impossible to even imagine how densely his life was filled with music. Moscow attracted more and more and did not want to let go, so in 1989 Magomayev, tired of constant moving, settled in Moscow for good.

Life becomes less decorated, and the woman you love is always nearby, but stressful life makes itself felt. Problems with the heart and blood vessels no longer allow him to work as before, Muslim Magomayev appears at concerts less and less, not missing even the most prestigious ones.

But after 4 years, at the age of 60, Magomaev decides to leave concert activities, but he is still active and does not quit his job. Together with Tamara Sinyavskaya, they devoted more time to rest, traveled, but there was less and less strength left. After 6 years, Magomayev died from an ischemic attack, next to him was his muse and the love of his life.

The beloved artist has passed away, but he will be remembered for a very long time with surprise at such a bright and talented personality, and with great gratitude. Muslim Magomayev and his biography, bright years life, the tragic cause of death will forever remain in our hearts.

Surely many people believe that M. Magomayev had only one wife all his life, an opera singer. However, before her, although not for long, he was married to an Armenian woman, Ophelia, who bore him a daughter, Marina Magomayeva. Muslim Magomayev, of course, was very burdened by the fact that his child was living and being raised away from him, but such is life...

Parents meeting

Marina Magomayeva-Kozlovskaya’s father is the famous Soviet singer, baritone Muslim Magomayev, and her mother Ophelia (her last name is not mentioned anywhere), an Armenian by nationality, was Muslim’s classmate at the Baku Music School. She was a very attractive girl, with luxurious jet-black hair, eyebrows like crescents, and it is not surprising that the future famous singer fell in love with her. They were both 18 years old. It seemed like this was love forever! Ophelia was from a very chaste family, so she never allowed herself any liberties. Muslim's passion was very strong, and in order to achieve Ophelia's intimacy, he decided not to delay his marriage to her.

Against all odds

His relatives - grandmother, uncle and his wife (the artist’s father died at the front, and his mother got married, leaving the child in the care of her mother-in-law and brother-in-law) - did not want the talented young man to so quickly find himself under a family burden. The grandmother - in the future the great-grandmother of Marina Magomaeva-Kozlovskaya - even stole his passport and hid it with a neighbor so that her grandson, God forbid, would not apply to the registry office. However, this information soon surfaced, and Muslim, thanks to his assertiveness and charm - qualities that no one could resist - managed to persuade his grandmother’s friend to return her passport. In Ophelia’s family, no one also suspected that their daughter was going to marry an 18-year-old young man who was nothing at all, otherwise they would also have resisted.

Marriage

The young couple confronted their families with a fact: like it or not, we are legal spouses. Muslim did not want to bring the young Armenian girl to his uncle’s house, and the newlyweds settled in the house of Ophelia’s parents. The father-in-law and mother-in-law, to put it mildly, did not approve of their daughter’s choice. I wonder if they knew what they were future son-in-law will be one of outstanding singers USSR, would their attitude be the same? They nagged him all the time and admonished him to find a good, and most importantly, well-paid job in order to be able to provide for his family, they offered to perform in various ensembles in restaurants, where, in their opinion, they paid much more than in the Philharmonic or the Air Defense Ensemble. As a result of all these troubles, the young couple decided to go to Grozny to earn money. Despite the fact that Muslim did not recognize his Chechen origin and publicly spoke about the fact that he was an Azerbaijani, the blood of a mountaineer flowed in his veins. That is why he sought refuge in the homeland of his ancestors.

Birth story

Ophelia, unlike her parents, did not blame her beloved for not earning enough money to support her, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she physically could not be near her husband, who was constantly traveling around the villages with concerts. She herself no longer understood whether she wanted to be with him, because she no longer received either warmth or affection from him. It was as if he was taking out his anger on her at her parents, although due to his natural kindness and decency he was not openly rude to her. However, Ophelia knew for sure that she wanted, at all costs and despite the entreaties of her parents, to give birth to a child from this charming young talent. Without telling him anything about her pregnancy, she went back to Baku, where she gave birth to a daughter, who was named Marina Magomayeva (born 1961).

Meanwhile, in Grozny, Magomayev was becoming unbearable, despite his growing popularity. They didn’t pay him any fees, they even refused to pay for his housing, and once he even had to spend the night on a park bench. Once, having met his colleague Musa Dudayev, he angrily told him: “I’m a Chechen, why are they treating me so badly?” Never again in his life did he admit that he belonged to the Chechen nation and called himself an Azerbaijani, since he was born and raised there. His resentment towards his “native” Chechnya grew stronger and stronger, and then one day he received a letter from Baku informing him that Ophelia had given birth to a daughter. Muslim Magomayev was very surprised, but at the same time delighted, because for a Caucasian man the birth of a child is not simple words, this is great happiness, a blessing from heaven and a new stage in life.

Meeting with my daughter

Without thinking twice, he collected his things (there weren’t that many of them) and went to his wife and his baby. The daughter of Muslim Magomayev was simply charming from childhood. Of course, she had such beautiful parents, and the mixture of so many bloods (Chechen, Adyghe, Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian) should have given such a result. By the way, Muslim’s mother was also an incredible beauty with Slavic features, which were also passed on to her son. If you look at his childhood photographs, you will notice that there is practically nothing oriental in the boy, but with age, Caucasian features began to take over.

The daughter of Muslim Magomayev, Marina, however, from the very early childhood was typical oriental beauty. At a more mature age, the singer admitted that he immediately became inflamed with boundless love for the baby and began to experience feelings for her that were still unknown to him, which only his child can awaken in a parent. For the first time he saw his baby in winter, on the day when snow suddenly fell in sunny Baku, he began to call his little one Snegurochka. The daughter's very first memories of her father are connected precisely with how he takes her in his arms, kisses her tenderly and calls her a snowflake and the Snow Maiden.

Parting

Despite the birth of their daughter, Muslim and Ophelia still broke up. Father in law - very intelligent person, scientist-geodesist, employee of the Academy of Sciences - talked with his son-in-law several times, assuring him that it was impossible to do this, because there was common child, but Muslim was adamant. Even before filing for divorce, he did not want to spend a day in Ophelia's parents' house. He couldn't forgive her mother offensive words: "You won't good husband"When parting, he, of course, said that he would always take care of his daughter, would pay alimony, would communicate with the girl and provide her with all kinds of support, but he no longer wanted to tie the knot, he creative person and for him music comes first! Marina Magomayeva, the daughter of Muslim Magomayev, will forever remain his favorite child. She grew up very musical girl, and her father hoped that someday she would follow in his footsteps and they would sing together on the same stage.

The history of the name of the daughter of Muslim Magomayev

It is interesting to know that he chose his daughter’s name himself. He had long known that if he had a daughter, he would certainly call her Marina, as his first love. And this happened when he was 13 years old. The girl was very beautiful, he remembered her just like that. All the boys at school ran after her, and she was unapproachable and very proud. Muslim dedicated the song “Marina” to her and performed it on school events, youth discos. Later, in the 70s, an arrangement was made for this song, and it began to be heard from many concert venues. Those who knew that the singer had a daughter thought that the song was dedicated to her, however, as we already know, he wrote it, inspired by the young beauty Marina, with whom he was in love as a teenager.

Childhood and youth

Many people are probably interested in what Muslim Magomayev’s daughter, Marina Magomayeva, did in her childhood? She grew up as a very kind, affectionate girl, and every time she met her, her dad simply melted in her arms and was ready to fulfill her every wish. People close to the singer said that he paid exorbitant alimony to his ex-wife. The daughter was musically gifted. Of course, both of her parents were musicians (as already mentioned, Ophelia and Muslim met at a music school). After consulting with ex-husband, Ophelia sent her daughter to a music school for piano class. After this, the father began to dream that he would sing to the accompaniment of his daughter. But this was not destined to happen either, because the daughter, although she was a good pianist, did not gravitate towards public performances, unlike her famous father. At the insistence of her Armenian grandfather, Ophelia’s father, she became a geographer.

Departure for the States

It was 1977. Muslim had been married to his colleague for two years, opera singer Tamara Sinyavskaya. He cherished and nurtured her. The couple did not have children yet (unfortunately, they never had children in 35 years of married life). And then Muslim receives the news that Ophelia and her daughter are leaving on the other side of the Atlantic, to America. How so? How will he live apart from his pet? Many years later, Magomayev, in a conversation with reporters, said that in his life there were three great love- Music, daughter Marina and wife Tamara. The daughter said that she would visit her father often if possible, and let him come to them. But there were Soviet times, and it was very difficult to implement.

Marina Magomaeva: personal life, children

So, at the age of 16, the daughter famous singer, whom fans of both classical and pop music(during this period Muslim had already entered into cooperation with the great Armenian composer Arno Babajanyan, and the whole country sang and danced to his music), received a visa to the United States and left the country with her mother Ophelia. During the same period, the family of Magomayev’s friend, also a representative of show business (this word was not used in the USSR) Kozlovsky, also left for America. After some time, the singer learned that his daughter and Alexander Kozlovsky - the son of his longtime friend - found each other on a foreign land, and love broke out between them. At the first second his heart sank. How? His little princess, Snow Maiden, has already grown up so much that she is going to get married? On the other hand, he knew the family of the future groom very well and was a friend to his father. He, of course, gave his father's blessing. Thus, Alexander Kozlovsky became the husband of Marina Magomaeva.

Soon a son was born in the family, who was given the name Alen, but he had several other names, and one of them was Muslim, like his famous grandfather.

Relationship with father's family

Marina and her son often visited their grandfather, sometimes Alexander Kozlovsky, the son-in-law of the famous singer, joined them. It also happened that Magomaev and Sinyavskaya visited them in Ohio. Tamara and Ophelia had great relationship. As Marina’s mother said: “Tamara didn’t take my husband away from me, he met her more than 10 years later.” Alain also became very attached to his grandmother Tamara.

Parting

When Marina received the news that her dad had died, she was not given a visa to Moscow. It was 2008. Then she went straight to Baku, where the singer’s body was transported. Ophelia also wanted to say goodbye to her ex-husband, however, being an Armenian, she understood that she would not be welcome in Azerbaijan.

Little Alen at first did not know that his grandfather was no more, since grandmother Tamara believed that this would be a great stress for the boy. For some time he waited for his grandfather to come to him soon, but after some time his mother explained to him what had happened to his grandfather.