Emin (singer) explained

Emin Agalarov
Birth Name:Emin Araz oğlu Ağalarov
Birth Date:12 December 1979
Birth Place:Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Occupation:Singer, songwriter
Years Active:2005–present
Alma Mater:Marymount Manhattan College
Spouse:
    Children:4
    Father:Aras Agalarov
    Honours:People's Artiste of Azerbaijan (2018)

    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.

    A singer, he performs in English, Azerbaijani and Russian languages.[1] [2] In 2018, Agalarov was awarded the honorary title of People's Artiste of Azerbaijan.[3]

    Early life

    Emin Arasovich Agalarov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is the son of Azerbaijani–Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, head of the . Emin's father is Azerbaijani and his mother is Jewish.[4] He considers himself a Muslim.[5] His family moved to Moscow when Emin was four years old. When he was 13, his parents sent him to a school in Switzerland.[6] [7] Agalarov moved to Tenafly, New Jersey in 1994 and graduated from Tenafly High School in 1997.[8] He graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.[9]

    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),[10] several restaurants, the Crocus City Mall, fashion stores and brands, the Crocus City Hall concert venue, and the Sea Breeze Resort in Nardaran, Azerbaijan.[11]

    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;[12] 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.[13]

    Emin was the opening act for Jennifer Lopez's 23 September 2012, concert in Baku.[14] [15]

    Emin performed "In Another Life" in a music video with Donald Trump and Miss Universe 2013 contestants.[16] Contestants were required to appear in the video without pay.

    In May 2014, Emin won the award for Best-selling Azerbaijan Artist at the 2014 World Music Awards.[17]

    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.[18]

    In November 2013, Agalarov's father hosted Miss Universe 2013 at his Crocus City Hall in Moscow. Agalarov performed during the evening gown competition section. He also made a music video with Trump and the contestants. Contestants were required to appear in the video without pay. 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."[19]

    Herman Gref, who runs Sberbank of Russia, Agalarov and his father hosted a dinner for Trump on the night of the pageant. 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.

    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.[20] 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.[21] [22]

    Personal life

    Emin Agalarov is the son of Aras Agalarov, an Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire.[23] From 2006 to 2015, he was married to Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.[24] 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) .[25] The couple divorced in 2020 and remarried in 2024.[26]

    Discography

    Albums

    YearTitleNotes
    2006Still
    2007Incredible
    2008Obsession
    2009Devotion
    2010Wonder
    Meleğim benim
    2012After the Thunder
    2013На краю
    (Russian-language album)
    2014Amor
    2015The Falling 8
    2016Love is a Deadly Game
    2017Прости, моя любовь
    (Duet album)
    2018Неба не боялись
    2019Good Love
    2019Девочка Моя
    2021Love Is

    Singles

    DVDs

    Filmography

    Year Film Role
    2013 Himself
    2018 Chernyavskiy

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Quinn. Gerry . Musician Emin is definitely not just in it for the money. Irish Examiner. 12 July 2017. 21 April 2015.
    2. News: Bilger. Oliver. Dieser Oligarchensohn will Europa mit Musik erobern. Die Welt . 12 July 2017. 13 September 2015. Son of oligarch wants to conquer Europe with music.
    3. Web site: 2018-07-31 . Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan . Famous singer and composer Emin Agalarov received certificate and badge of honorary title of People's Artist of Azerbaijan - News . 2023-05-16 . Azərbaycan Respublikası Mədəniyyət Nazirliyi.
    4. Web site: Rob Prepares Star Emin for International Fame and Glory. Yaffe. Simon. Jewish Telegraph. 2018-02-10.
    5. News: Brian. Boyd . Not Eminem. Just Emin . . 22 March 2015 . 11 July 2017.
    6. Web site: Trust - Translation of interview the Agalarovs gave to Forbes by Crocus Group. 27 March 2013. 6 March 2018. Crocus Group. 7 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180307022932/http://crocusgroup.com/press-center/news/769/. dead.
    7. Web site: April 2013 cover of Russian-language issue of Forbes Life. 6 March 2018. baku.ws.
    8. News: Cowen. Richard. Shkolnikova. Svetlana. Russian pop star tied to Trump has Tenafly roots. The Record. 13 July 2017. 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..
    9. News: Calamur . Krishnadev . Who Is Emin Agalarov? . 7 June 2019 . The Atlantic . 10 July 2017.
    10. News: Crocus Group Opens Vegas Kuntsevo Shopping Mall. 2 March 2018. Property Xpress. 22 Sep 2017.
    11. Web site: Emin Arasovich Agalarov, biography. Crocus Group.
    12. Web site: Emin Agalarov: Singing Commercial Director. Luxe Magazine. 19 November 2009. 10 March 2011.
    13. Web site: Album Review: Emin's "After the Thunder". Adams. William Lee. 19 August 2012. wiwibloggs. 18 May 2016.
    14. Web site: Gulustan. Jennifer Lopez gave concert in Baku (PHOTO). 11 July 2017. 24 September 2012. 13 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180413185555/http://gulustan.info/2012/09/j-lo-2/. dead.
    15. News: Warrick. Joby. Tiny Azerbaijan unleashes pop-power against Iran's mullahs. The Washington Post. 11 July 2017. 14 October 2012.
    16. News: 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. . . 2 August 2016.
    17. Web site: World Music Awards 2014 Winners List. Twice as Nice. 11 July 2017. 30 May 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150623052010/http://www.twiceasnice.co.uk/index.php/news/6632/world-music-awards-2014-winners-list/. 23 June 2015. dmy-all.
    18. News: Twohey. Megan. Eder. Steve. How a Pageant Led to a Trump Son's Meeting With a Russian Lawyer. 11 July 2017. The New York Times. 11 July 2017. A16.
    19. News: Unlikely Middlemen: Trump Jr. Emails Point to Father-Son Duo. Associated Press. The New York Times. 2017-07-12. 2017-07-23.
    20. News: 8th person at Trump Tower meeting identified. CNN. Brown. Pamela. 19 July 2017.
    21. News: Helderman. Rosalind S.. Wagner. John. Donald Trump Jr. was told campaign meeting would be with 'Russian government attorney,' according to emails. The Washington Post. 11 July 2017. 11 July 2017.
    22. News: Birnbaum. Michael. Trump's Russian business partner had said his election would be 'an amazing breakthrough'. The Washington Post. 11 July 2017. 11 July 2017.
    23. News: Emin: a singer with connections. BBC News. Neil. Smith. 1 March 2011. 11 March 2011.
    24. Web site: Leyla, the champagne connection. iol.co.za. Paul. Harris. 10 March 2011. 11 March 2011.
    25. News: Fitzharris . Dustin . More Love From Emin: The Russian Pop Star Opens Up About His Music, Family and Wealth . 7 June 2019 . HuffPost . 19 May 2015.
    26. Web site: Плетенёва . Ольга . Эмин Агаларов снова женился на Алене Гавриловой: тайная свадьба гремит в Москве STARHIT . 2024-08-07 . www.starhit.ru . RU.