Aziza Mammadova

Aziza Mammadova (; 1892, Tiflis – 14 August 1961, Baku) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet stage and film actress, one of the first actresses of the Azerbaijani theater and one of the first Azerbaijani film actresses, Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1936). Biography Aziza Abdulbaghi gizi Mammadova was born in 1892 in Tiflis in the family of the famous khanende singer Bulbuljan. Seeing his daughter's interest in music, her father taught her to play the accordion. Later, Zulalov married off his daughter to Salman Hajiyev from Sheki. In 1907, the couple had a daughter, Sona, who in the future also became an actress and people's artist of the republic. A year later, Aziza's husband suddenly dies and Aziza, together with her daughter, moves back to her father's house in Tiflis. After some time, Zulalov, together with his daughter and granddaughter, moved to Ashgabat, and in 1919 to Baku. After the Soviet occupation of Azerbaijan in 1920, Aziza gets a job at the Abilov Club, and later at the Ali Bayramov Women' Club.