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Dilara Kazimova

1984-05-20 (40 years old) in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]

Dilara Kazimova (Azerbaijani: Dilarə Kazımova, born 20 May 1984) is an Azerbaijani singer and actress.She represented Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen with the song "Start a Fire". Born in Baku, Kazimova studied vocal arts at the Baku Academy of Music. After graduating, she briefly performed as part of an opera troupe. From the early 2000s, she was a member of the rock band Unformal and later the lead singer for the duo Milk & Kisses. Both bands participated in the Azerbaijani national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest before, with Unformal placing second in the national final in 2008, and Milk & Kisses placing second again in the national final in 2010. In 2010, the duo Milk & Kisses represented Azerbaijan at the annual New Wave music festival in Jurmala, Latvia, but came 16th out of 17 contestants. In 2014, Kazimova participated in the Azerbaijani selection (this time by herself) and won the competition. "Start a Fire", the song with which Dilara represented Azerbaijan in Copenhagen, was released two weeks later, on 16 March 2014, at the same time as the video clip. Dilara performed in the first semi-final of the contest, placing 9th with 57 points and ultimately qualified to the final. In the final she came 22nd with 33 points. Also in 2014, Kazimova was a contestant on the fourth season the Ukrainian reality talent show Holos Krayiny (part of the international syndication The Voice), under the coaching of Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Kazimova has also starred in two Azerbaijani films Try Not to Breathe (alongside Fakhraddin Manafov) in 2006 and Purgatory (for which she recorded the soundtrack "Sonsuz yol" as part of the band Unformal) in 2007. In May 2022, Kazimova performed at the EuroVillage festival in Baku, whose goal is to promote cooperation between the EU and Azerbaijan. In 2024, Kazimova won the Masked Singer Azerbaijan. Description above from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

Movies

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Kəklikotu
0 %|Dec 21, 2017
Comedy, Adventure
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Urban Motives 4.1
0 %|Jul 31, 2015
Drama, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
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The Sirat Bridge
0 %|Apr 27, 2007
Crime, Action, Drama
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Try Not to Breathe
70 %|Nov 15, 2004
Drama

Series

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The Masked Singer Azerbaijan
80 %|Dec 10, 2023
Comedy, Reality, Family
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The Masked Singer Azerbaijan
80 %|Dec 10, 2023
Comedy, Reality, Family
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The Voice of Azerbaijan
0 %|Nov 13, 2015
Reality, Family