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Aziza A. ( Aziza is a word in Arabic literally meaning "precious" or "holy"; her real name is Alev Yıldırım), was born in 1971, in Berlin, as the daughter of a Turkish family living in Germany. She first lived in Kreuzberg, then in Stegliz, finally moving to Berlin after school. She started her career, in 1996, presenting the children's program, Dr. Mag, which went on air every Saturday on ZDF, Germany's second biggest TV channel. In the meanwhile, with a growing interest in music and the hip-hop culture, she started taking music courses. Her parents returning to their homeland, in...

Aziza is a Saharawi from Western Sahara, born in a refugee camp in Algeria. At the age of 11 Aziza received a schoolarship to study in Cube where she spent seven years, before abandoning her studies in order to dedicate herself to music. She won the first prize in a national song competition in a cultural festival of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic - the self-proclaimed Saharawi state, exiled in the refugee camps and recognized by over 80 countries. Aziza did her first recordings for the Saharawi National Radio in the refugee camps and from there came her first tour...

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh {Əzizə Mustafazadə} was born on 19th December 1969 in Baku, Azerbaijan. She is a pianist, vocalist and composer who plays a fusion of jazz, classical, and mugham (a traditional improvisational style of Azerbaijan). Zadeh began to sing at age of three and studied classical piano from an early age. She made her debut on stage with her father, Vagif Mustafa Zadeh, a famous pioneer of mugham-jazz fusion. Her first, self-titled album was released in 1991, followed by Aziza in 1993. In 1994, she won the Phono Academy Prize, a prestigious German jazz award, for her second album,...