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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh ((アゼルバイジャン語:Əzizə Mustafazadə); born December 19, 1969), also known as "The Princess of Jazz", "Die Prinzessin des Jazz", or as "Jazziza", is an Azerbaijani singer, pianist, and composer who plays a fusion of jazz and mugam (a traditional improvisational style of Azerbaijan) with classical and avant-garde influences. Reviewers have said that her style also shows some influence from Keith Jarrett.〔(AllMusic.com review - ''Aziza Mustafa Zadeh'' )〕 She currently resides in Mainz, Germany, with her mother, Eliza Mustafa Zadeh, who is also her manager. Her two favorite leisure activities, she says, are painting and sleeping. She is a vegetarian. She believes in God, though she does not consider herself as belonging to any religion.〔(Jazzeitung interview with Aziza Mustafa Zadeh )〕 ==Biography== Aziza was born in Baku to musical parents Vagif and Elza Mustafa Zadeh (née Bandzeladze〔Region Plus Magazine |url=http://regionplus.az/en/articles/view/2292〕). Vagif was a pianist and composer, famous for creating the mugam-jazz fusion in which his daughter now plays. Elza is a classically trained singer from Georgia.〔(Classical TV )〕 ( Aziza married Englishman Paul Thomas in Brighton in 1999. They divorced in 2002 ) . Aziza's parents first noticed their daughter's sensitivity to music when she was eight months old. Aziza recalls the story as her mother tells it: Aziza enjoyed all forms of art, especially dancing, painting and singing. At the age of three, she made her stage debut with her father, improvising vocals. She began studying classical piano at an early age, showing special interest in the works of famous composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Frédéric Chopin. Soon thereafter, she showed a growing talent for improvisation. 〔"A Feeling of Jazz". ''Baku Magazine'', No. 2(16), May 2010; p. 80.〕 On December 16, 1979, Aziza's father died of a severe heart attack in Tashkent at the age of 39, three days away from Aziza's tenth birthday. (The chronology of important family dates here is very strange. Aziza's birthday is the 19th, her mother's is the 17th. Vagif died on the 16th and was buried on the 18th. Aziza says, "So all those dates - 16, 17, 18, and 19 - are such a mixture of joy and sadness for us and such a philosophical paradox - life and death juxtaposed upon each other like that.") In order to help her daughter cope with this blow, Aziza's mother gave up her career as a singer to help nurture her daughter's own musical talents. In 1988, at the age of 18, Aziza's mugam-influenced style helped her win third place together with American Matt Cooper in the Thelonious Monk piano competition in Washington, D.C..〔(Monk Institute )〕 It was around this time that she moved to Germany with her mother. Aziza released her debut album, ''Aziza Mustafa Zadeh'', in 1991. Her second album, ''Always'', won her the Phono Academy Prize, a prestigious German music award, and the Echo Prize from Sony. She has since performed in many countries with many jazz and traditional luminaries and released several more albums, the most recent being ''Contrasts II'', released in 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aziza Mustafa Zadeh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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