Azerbaijani People’s Artist, well-known mugham singer Gadir Rustamov passed away in the morning yesterday. The singer’s son Rustam Rustamov told that his father died of heart failure yesterday. Now the representatives of Azerbaijani Consulate-General are in Istanbul now. The negotiations are held on bringing Rustamov’s corpse to Baku.
Rustamov was born 1935 in Agdam. He was grown up here as khanende. Firstly got his education in the Azerbaijan State Music School in Hajibaba Huseynov’s class then continued his education in Agdam.
Several mugham dastgahs as “Rast”, “Chahargah” in his performance have been recorded and are saved in the Radio Fund.