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Muslim Magomayevâ€™s family: â€œWe called emergency ambulance, but when doctors came he had passed awayâ€

25 October 2008 10:52 (UTC +04:00)

He felt bad this morning, Magomayevâ€™s family told APA from Moscow. â€œWe called emergency ambulance, but when doctors came he had passed awayâ€.
The Magomayevâ€™s family said that he was feeling bad frequently recently. Relatives wanted to take him to hospital, but he wished to stay at home.
There was no report about the date of his funeral.
Magomayev was born on August 17, 1942 in Baku. He was a soloist singer of Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theater from 1963 and graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory in 1968.
The Government sent him to Italy to develop his musical education and he passed internship in La Scala Theater in Milan, Italy in 1964-65.
He was an art director of Azerbaijan State Bandstand-Symphonic Orchestra from 1975 and performed concerts in CIS countries, France, Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, Canada, Iran and others.
He was awarded with a number of medals and orders of former USSR and Azerbaijan.