Jabbar Garyaghdioglu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jabbar Garyaghdioglu

Azerbaijani singer

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1861

Place of Birth: Shusha, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1944

Profession: actor, composer, singer, Khananda

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jabbar Garyagdioglu or Garyaghdyoglu (Azerbaijani: Cabbar Qaryagdioglu pronounced [d??p'b?? g??j??d?o?'lu]) (31 March 1861 – 20 April 1944) was an Azerbaijani folk singer (khananda).
He is known as the first khananda to perform mughamats in the Azeri language.
He mostly sang in Azerbaijani and Persian.
He was widely known both as a khanende and as a composer who performed both folk songs and his own song compositions, he was the author of new texts - tesnifs.
His song "Baku" enjoyed great popularity in the 1930s-1940s. Jabbar Karjagdyoglu was also known outside the Caucasus.
The art of the singer was admired by Uzeir Hajibeyov and Fedor Shalyapin, Sergei Yesenin and Bulbul, Reingold Glier.
In 1906-1912 his voice was recorded by a number of joint stock companies (record companies) in Kiev, Moscow, Warsaw.
In the Great Soviet Encyclopedia Karjagdy is called the biggest khanende, an expert in Azerbaijani folk music.