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Azerbaijani mugham singer (born 1979)

Musical artist

Fargana Alim qizi Qasimova (Azerbaijani: Fərqanə Alim qızı Qasımova; born August 6, 1979) is an Azerbaijanimugham singer in Azerbaijan.

She is the daughter of famous mugham singer Alim Qasimov. She has twice received presidential awards for the promotion of Azerbaijani music, in 2012 and 2014.^[1]

Biography

In 1995, at the age of sixteen, Qasimova joined Alim Qasimov on his concert tour to Germany for the first time.^[2] By the age of twenty she had become a full-fledged singer in her own right, and Qasimov chose to include her daughter in her ensemble.

Farghana first appeared on 1997's The Legendary Art of Mugham, on which the two shared vocal tasks on the song Getme Getme. Their next album included a track, Bagishlamani, dedicated to her colleague, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.^[3] The release marked a high point for Qasimov as it was her first widely available release to west