Halima Nosirova or Halima Nasyrova (
Uzbek: Halima Nosirova, Ҳалима Носирова; Russian: Халима Насырова, Khalima Nasyrova) was a
Soviet and
Uzbek singer of
Uzbek music. She also started her creative activities as a drama actress in 1927 and was a popular artist of the
USSR.[2][3]
Biography
She was born on December 29, 1913 (according to other sources, December 7, 1912) in the village of Taglyk, near
Kokand (now in the
Fergana Region of
Uzbekistan).[4][5][6][7][8][9] She was the ninth child in the family and was raised in an orphanage.[7]
From 1930 to 1986, she was a soloist in the Uzbek Music and Drama Theater (from 1939, the State Uzbek
Opera and
Ballet Theater, now the
Navoi Theater) in
Tashkent.[11][4][6] She became a leading soloist in 1939.[8] She performed in both classical repertoire and Uzbek national operas.
She also performed as a concert singer, singing Uzbek folk songs as well as songs from other nations, including
Tajik,
Kazakh,
Armenian,
Azerbaijani,
Chinese,
Russian,
Ukrainian, and others.
She toured abroad, including in
East Germany,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Iran, and other countries. From 1979 to 1986, she taught at the Department of Eastern Music at the
Tashkent Conservatory.[10][13] She was a deputy of the 5th convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the
USSR.[10]
She died on January 3, 2003, in
Tashkent, and was buried in the Chigatay Cemetery.[4][10]