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Emin Agalarov
Born
Emin Araz oğlu Ağalarov

(1971-12-12) 12 December 1971 (age 52)
Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Alma materMarymount Manhattan College
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
Years active2005–present
Spouses
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(m. 2006; div. 2015)​
Alyona Gavrilova
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(m. 2018; div. 2020)​
Children4
FatherAras Agalarov
HonoursPeople's Artiste of Azerbaijan (2018)
Websiteemin-music.com

Emin Aras oghlu Agalarov (Azerbaijani: Emin Araz oğlu Ağalarov, Russian: Эмин Аразович Агаларов; born 12 December 1971), 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][better source needed] In 2018, Agalarov was awarded the honorary title of People's Artiste of Azerbaijan.[4]

Early life

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Emin Arasovich Agalarov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is the son of Azerbaijani–Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, head of the Crocus Group [ru]. 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

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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.[citation needed]

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

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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 2006 Emin gained attention for his debut studio album Still.

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. Emin's album Wonder was released in Russia and CIS in 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 radio airplay on Russian Radio in 2012.

Emin's first single from his 2012 album After The Thunder was the song "Baby Get Higher". 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]

Relationship with Donald Trump

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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

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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 and remarried in 2024.[27]

Discography

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Albums

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Year Title Notes
2006 Still
2007 Incredible
2008 Obsession
2009 Devotion
2010 Wonder
No.TitleLength
1."Obvious"3:36
2."Falling"3:28
3."Any Time You Fall"3:23
4."Just for One Night"3:53
5."Tell Me You'll Be Mine"3:37
6."You Don't Even Know"4:04
7."Hold You in My Arms"3:55
8."All I Need to Know"3:37
9."One Last Dance (feat. Jo Birchall)"3:57
10."Don't Go"3:39
11."Wonder"4:11
12."Miss America"3:55
Meleğim benim
2012 After the Thunder
No.TitleLength
1."Baby Get Higher"3:28
2."Never Enough"3:39
3."Heart Keeps Beating"3:22
4."Oxygen"3:46
5."Walk Through Walls"3:48
6."After the Thunder"3:58
7."Beautiful Taboo"3:44
8."Dead Roses"3:24
9."I Should've Known Better"3:05
10."I'll Be There"3:38
11."Better"3:44
12."Obvious"3:36
13."Anytime You Fall (Ash Howes Radio Edit)"3:24
14."Baby Get Higher (Digital Dog Club Mix)"6:40
15."Baby Get Higher (Seamus Haji Club Mix)"6:39
16."Never Enough (Buzz Junkies Club Mix)"4:45
17."Baby Get Higher (video)"3:34
18."Album Booklet"3:34
2013 На краю
(Russian-language album)
No.TitleLength
1."Амор (Amor)"3:32
2."На краю (On the Edge)"3:46
3."Звезды над Москвой (Stars Above Moscow)"3:56
4."Сон не про нас (Dream Not About Us)"3:56
5."Ангел бес (Angel Demon)"4:22
6."Не ищи меня (Don't Look for Me)"3:40
7."Я лучше всех живу (I Live Better Than Everyone)"3:30
8."Ты не одна (You Are Not Alone)"4:23
9."Сердце бьется (Heart Keeps Beating)"3:22
10."В сентябре (In September)"3:34
11."Лепестки опавших роз (Dead Roses)"3:20
12."Синяя вечность (Blue Eternity) (feat. Muslim Magomayev)"4:40
2014 Amor
No.TitleLength
1."In Another Life"3:18
2."Hurt"4:09
3."Not Alone"4:40
4."Amor"3:38
5."Sweetest Feeling"4:12
6."Crawl"4:36
7."Run"3:30
8."The Game"3:09
9."Tonight"3:25
10."Last Forever"4:33
11."Brighter"3:31
12."Turn It Up Loud"6:41
13."Coming Home"4:35
14."Digital Booklet – Amor" 
2015 The Falling 8
No.TitleLength
1."One in a Million"4:17
2."It Doesn't Hurt"3:25
3."Forget About You"4:07
4."You"3:48
5."Left Without a Word"3:16
6."Be Mine"4:34
7."Women Like Me (feat. Grigory Leps)"3:47
8."The Falling 8"3:43
9."Live to Live"3:38
10."I'll Pray for You"3:50
11."Goodbye"3:45
12."Father (Dedication to My Father)"4:36
2016 Love is a Deadly Game
No.TitleLength
1."Love is a Deadly Game"4:12
2."Creative"4:01
3."It's Impossible"3:23
4."Let There Be Love"3:12
5."Mack the Knife"3:07
6."If You Go Away (feat. Anggun"4:03
7."Obvious"3:38
8."Somewhere to Run"3:15
9."Two Shots of Happy"4:27
10."When I fall in love"2:55
11."You Are So Beautiful"4:14
12."Blue Eternity"3:27
13."You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (With David Foster) [Live] [Bonus Track] (feat. Ani Lorak)"3:12
14."Always On My Mind (With David Foster) [Live] [Bonus Track] (feat. Polina Gagarina)"3:51
15."Unchained Melody (With David Foster) [Live] [Bonus Track]"3:21
2017 Прости, моя любовь
(Duet album)
2018 Неба не боялись
2019 Good Love
2019 Девочка Моя
2021 Love Is

Singles

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  • 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

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  • 2012: After the Thunder

Filmography

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Year Film Role
2013 Love in Vegas Himself
2018 Night Shift Chernyavskiy

References

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  1. ^ a b Harris, Paul (10 March 2011). "Leyla, the champagne connection". iol.co.za. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  2. ^ Quinn, Gerry (21 April 2015). "Musician Emin is definitely not just in it for the money". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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)
  5. ^ Yaffe, Simon. "Rob Prepares Star Emin for International Fame and Glory". Jewish Telegraph. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  6. ^ Boyd, Brian (22 March 2015). "Not Eminem. Just Emin". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  7. ^ a b "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.
  8. ^ "April 2013 cover of Russian-language issue of Forbes Life". baku.ws. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Calamur, Krishnadev (10 July 2017). "Who Is Emin Agalarov?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Crocus Group Opens Vegas Kuntsevo Shopping Mall". Property Xpress. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  12. ^ a b c d e "Emin Arasovich Agalarov, biography". Crocus Group.
  13. ^ "Emin Agalarov: Singing Commercial Director". Luxe Magazine. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  14. ^ Adams, William Lee (19 August 2012). "Album Review: Emin's "After the Thunder"". wiwibloggs. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  15. ^ "Jennifer Lopez gave concert in Baku (PHOTO)". Gulustan. 24 September 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  16. ^ Warrick, Joby (14 October 2012). "Tiny Azerbaijan unleashes pop-power against Iran's mullahs". The Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  17. ^ a b EMIN in Another Life Official Music Video ft. Donald Trump and Miss Universe 2013 Contestants on YouTube
  18. ^ a b 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.
  19. ^ a b c d e f 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.
  20. ^ "World Music Awards 2014 Winners List". Twice as Nice. 30 May 2014. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  21. ^ "Unlikely Middlemen: Trump Jr. Emails Point to Father-Son Duo". The New York Times. Associated Press. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  22. ^ Brown, Pamela (19 July 2017). "8th person at Trump Tower meeting identified". CNN.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ Smith, Neil (1 March 2011). "Emin: a singer with connections". BBC News. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ Плетенёва, Ольга. "Эмин Агаларов снова женился на Алене Гавриловой: тайная свадьба гремит в Москве | STARHIT". www.starhit.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 7 August 2024.
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