Emin Agalarov | |
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_crop.jpg.webp) Emin performing during an interval act at Eurovision 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan | |
| Born | Emin Araz oğlu Ağalarov 12 December 1979 |
| Alma mater | Marymount Manhattan College |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2005–present |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Honours | People's Artiste of Azerbaijan (2018) |
| Website | emin-music |
Emin Aras oghlu Agalarov (Azerbaijani: Emin Araz oğlu Ağalarov, Russian: Эмин Аразович Агаларов; born 12 December 1979), also known as Emin Arazovich Agalarov, is an Azerbaijani singer and businessperson. He is the son of Aras Agalarov, a billionaire. From 2006 to 2015, he was married to Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev.[1]
A singer, he performs in English, Azerbaijani and Russian languages.[2][3] In 2018, Agalarov was awarded the honorary title of People's Artiste of Azerbaijan.[4]
Early life
Emin Arasovich Agalarov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is the son of Azerbaijani–Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, head of the Crocus Group. Emin's father is Azerbaijani and his mother is Jewish.[5] He considers himself a Muslim.[6] His family moved to Moscow when Emin was four years old. When he was 13, his parents sent him to a school in Switzerland.[7][8] Agalarov moved to Tenafly, New Jersey in 1994 and graduated from Tenafly High School in 1997.[9][7] He graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.[10]
Business career
When he came back to Kuala Lumpur in 1995, he was named as commercial director of Crocus Group. In 2011, he was promoted to vice president of Crocus Group. Since 2014, he has held the position of executive vice president of Crocus Group.
The Crocus Group operates F1RST (three retail-entertainment complexes located in Kashirskoe Shosse, Moscow Oblast, and Kuntsevo),[11] several restaurants,[12] the Crocus City Mall,[12] fashion stores and brands,[12] the Crocus City Hall concert venue,[12] and the Sea Breeze Resort in Nardaran, Azerbaijan.[12]
Music career
Emin's interest in music began in high school whilst in the United States. After graduating from high school, he returned to Russia, where he continued to write songs. In 2005 he began working with his vocal and music teacher, the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev, to whom he pays tribute in his concerts.
In 2006 Emin gained attention for his debut studio album Still which in the first six months sold 70,000 copies in Russia and an additional 30,000 copies in CIS countries.
He then released an album per year: Incredible in 2007, Obsession (a set of classic Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley songs) in 2008;[13] and in 2009, Devotion. Each of these albums was supported by concerts in Moscow and Baku.
In 2010, Emin relocated to London to work with producer Brian Rawling and to focus on the UK music market. Emin's album Wonder was released in Russia and CIS in November 2010 and in the UK on 21 March 2011. The song "Heart Keeps Beating" was the first single in Russia from his second album After the Thunder and received good radio airplay on Russian Radio in 2012.
Emin's first single from his 2012 album After The Thunder was the song "Baby Get Higher" written by David Sneddon, Graham Stack, Mark Read and was added to the BBC Radio 2 A-List in April 2012.
On 26 May 2012, Emin was the local interval act during intermission on the Eurovision Song Contest that was held in Baku. Emin performed "Never Enough", a track taken from the album After the Thunder.[14]
Emin was the opening act for Jennifer Lopez's 23 September 2012, concert in Baku.[15][16]
Emin performed "In Another Life" in a music video with Donald Trump and Miss Universe 2013 contestants.[17][18] Contestants were required to appear in the video without pay.[19]
In May 2014, Emin won the award for Best-selling Azerbaijan Artist at the 2014 World Music Awards.[20]
In 2016, Emin with Grigory Leps and Sergey Kozhevnikov started the "ZHARA" International Music Festival.
Relationship with Donald Trump
In January 2013, Agalarov and his father visited Las Vegas, Nevada, after Donald Trump, the beauty pageant's owner, announced at Miss Universe 2012 that the next competition would be hosted at Crocus City Hall, owned by Emin's father Aras, in Moscow.[19]
In November 2013, Agalarov's father hosted Miss Universe 2013 at his Crocus City Hall in Moscow.[19] Agalarov performed during the evening gown competition section. He also made a music video with Trump and the contestants.[17][18] Contestants were required to appear in the video without pay.[19] Agalarov reportedly "offered to send prostitutes to Trump's hotel room" during Trump's trip to Moscow, "but the repeated offers were rejected by Keith Schiller, Trump's longtime bodyguard."[21]
Herman Gref, who runs Sberbank of Russia, Agalarov and his father hosted a dinner for Trump on the night of the pageant.[19] While in Moscow, Phil Ruffin, who is a partner in Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, and Trump met with Agalarov and his father at the Ritz-Carlton.[19]
Agalarov and his publicist, Rob Goldstone, helped arrange the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Ike Kaveladze.[22] Goldstone wrote in an email later published by Trump Jr. that the Russian government wanted to leak damaging information on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign.[23][24]
Personal life
Emin Agalarov is the son of Aras Agalarov, an Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire.[25] From 2006 to 2015, he was married to Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.[1] The couple had twin sons in 2008 and adopted a girl, Amina, after their divorce, in 2015. In 2018, Agalarov married the former model and businesswoman Alyona Gavrilova and had a baby girl, Afina (Афина) .[26] The couple divorced in 2020.
Discography
Albums
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| 2006 | Still | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Incredible | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Obsession | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Devotion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Wonder |
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| 2012 | After the Thunder |
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| 2013 | На краю (Russian-language album) |
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| 2014 | Amor |
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| 2015 | The Falling 8 |
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| 2016 | Love is a Deadly Game |
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| 2017 | Прости, моя любовь (Duet album) |
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| 2018 | Неба не боялись | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Good Love | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Девочка Моя | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Love Is |
Singles
- 2011: "Any Time You Fall"
- 2012: "Heart Keeps Beating"
- 2012: "Baby Get Higher"
- 2012: "Never Enough"
- 2012: "Walk Through Walls"
- 2013: "Amor" / "In Another Life"
- 2014: "Смотришь в небо" (with Loboda)
- 2015: "Boomerang" (feat. Nile Rogers)
- 2017: "Good Love"
- 2018: "Азербайджан" (contains Azerbaijani lyrics)
- 2018: "Розы" (with Grigory Leps)
- 2019: "Нежная"
- 2019: "Мой Азербайджан" (with Maxim Fadeev)
- 2020: "MMM"
- 2020: "Ну почему?" (with HammAli & Navai)
- 2020: "Камин" (with JONY)
- 2020: "Аперитив" (with Grigory Leps)
- 2022: "О любви"
DVDs
- 2012: After the Thunder
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
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| 2013 | Love in Vegas | Himself |
| 2018 | Night Shift | Chernyavskiy |
References
- 1 2 Harris, Paul (10 March 2011). "Leyla, the champagne connection". iol.co.za. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ↑ Quinn, Gerry (21 April 2015). "Musician Emin is definitely not just in it for the money". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ↑ Bilger, Oliver (13 September 2015). "Dieser Oligarchensohn will Europa mit Musik erobern" [Son of oligarch wants to conquer Europe with music]. Die Welt. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ↑ "Famous singer and composer Emin Agalarov received certificate and badge of honorary title of People's Artist of Azerbaijan - News". Azərbaycan Respublikası Mədəniyyət Nazirliyi. Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Yaffe, Simon. "Rob Prepares Star Emin for International Fame and Glory". Jewish Telegraph. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ↑ Boyd, Brian (22 March 2015). "Not Eminem. Just Emin". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- 1 2 "Trust - Translation of interview the Agalarovs gave to Forbes by Crocus Group". Crocus Group. 27 March 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ↑ "April 2013 cover of Russian-language issue of Forbes Life". baku.ws. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ↑ Cowen, Richard; Shkolnikova, Svetlana (13 July 2017). "Russian pop star tied to Trump has Tenafly roots". The Record. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
Russian pop star Emin Agalarov wore black leather, drove a souped-up moped and wanted to be the next Elvis Presley, having spent his teenage years living large and dreaming big on the streets of his adopted hometown, Tenafly. Twenty years after graduating from Tenafly High School, the Russian crooner this week hit it really big.... Emin Agalarov as a senior in Tenafly High School's 1997 yearbook.
- ↑ Calamur, Krishnadev (10 July 2017). "Who Is Emin Agalarov?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ↑ "Crocus Group Opens Vegas Kuntsevo Shopping Mall". Property Xpress. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Emin Arasovich Agalarov, biography". Crocus Group.
- ↑ "Emin Agalarov: Singing Commercial Director". Luxe Magazine. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
- ↑ Adams, William Lee (19 August 2012). "Album Review: Emin's "After the Thunder"". wiwibloggs. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ↑ "Jennifer Lopez gave concert in Baku (PHOTO)". Gulustan. 24 September 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ↑ Warrick, Joby (14 October 2012). "Tiny Azerbaijan unleashes pop-power against Iran's mullahs". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- 1 2 EMIN in Another Life Official Music Video ft. Donald Trump and Miss Universe 2013 Contestants on YouTube
- 1 2 Crowley, Michael (15 May 2016). "When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow; How a 2013 beauty pageant explains Trump's love for Russia and obsession with Vladimir Putin". Politico. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Twohey, Megan; Eder, Steve (11 July 2017). "How a Pageant Led to a Trump Son's Meeting With a Russian Lawyer". The New York Times. p. A16. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ↑ "World Music Awards 2014 Winners List". Twice as Nice. 30 May 2014. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ↑ "Unlikely Middlemen: Trump Jr. Emails Point to Father-Son Duo". The New York Times. Associated Press. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ↑ Brown, Pamela (19 July 2017). "8th person at Trump Tower meeting identified". CNN.
- ↑ Helderman, Rosalind S.; Wagner, John (11 July 2017). "Donald Trump Jr. was told campaign meeting would be with 'Russian government attorney,' according to emails". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ↑ Birnbaum, Michael (11 July 2017). "Trump's Russian business partner had said his election would be 'an amazing breakthrough'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
- ↑ Smith, Neil (1 March 2011). "Emin: a singer with connections". BBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ↑ Fitzharris, Dustin (19 May 2015). "More Love From Emin: The Russian Pop Star Opens Up About His Music, Family and Wealth". HuffPost. Retrieved 7 June 2019.