Zara is a Russian singer, who thanks to her talent has received worldwide recognition. Today she is a multiple winner of prestigious national music awards, a public figure whose name is well known in the UN, a patron and organizer of the international ethnic festival.

The real name of the singer Zara — Zarifa Mgoyan Pashaevna. Her parents were born in Leninakan and come from a Yazidi family. The children of the Mgoyan family – the eldest daughter Liana, the middle Zarifa and the son Roman – were born in Leningrad, where the family immigrated. Zara’s mother, Nadi Jamalovna is a housewife. Father Pasha Bimbashievich worked in mechanical engineering and defended his PhD in physical and mathematical Sciences.

In the Mgoyan family, except Zara no one is associated with music or other art. But her musical talent manifested itself early. The first steps in creativity the girl made in school age. The famous musician Oleg Kvasha noticed an artistic 12-year-old girl with a good voice. He invited Zarifa to sing some of his songs and realized that before him a future singer who will soon occupy a niche in the world of music and show business.

Songs "Today" and "the Heart of Juliet", proposed by Kvasha and sung by Zara, soon found themselves in the rotation of some Russian radio stations and remembered by many listeners. As it turned out, since them started the biography of Zara. Soon, with the support of the same musician and producer Oleg Kvasha, the young singer participates in the competition "Morning star". She sang all the same 2 songs and reached the final.

After participation and victory in the "Morning star" Zara regularly becomes a participant of music competitions and festivals, including international. Therefore, at the competition for young singers and musicians "Let children laugh" Zarifa Mgoyan received the main prize. The competition was held in Egypt, followed by others. In 16 years released the first Studio album Zara "Heart of Juliet." Almost immediately behind him appeared the album called "Zara".

After school (she graduated with a silver medal), she became a student of the St. Petersburg Academy of theatre arts. Here one more talent of Zara was shown: she made her debut on the stage as an actress. In the early 2000s, the aspiring artist played the first roles in the productions of "Voices of the past century", "Idiot" and "swallows of Heaven".

At the same time, Zara made her debut on the screen, appearing in an episodic role in the film "Named Baron...” The debut was successful, and Zara was invited to star in the film "Spetsnaz in Russian – 2". Later, a girl with Eastern appearance (height Zara 169 cm with a weight of 49 kg) appeared in the movies"Tabor", "Pushkin. The last duel" and "White sand".

However, it is not theatre and cinema, but the music and singing made Zara famous. In 2006 Zarifa Mgoyan became a member of the project "Star factory – 6". The appearance on the national channel of Russia, and occupied 3rd place attracted a lot of attention with her performance. Still allowed it to sign the favorable contract offered by the known producer Victor Drobysh.

In 2007 came out the album "Don't leave me alone." Soon Zara went on the first tour of the country. The success accompanied the emergence of the new hit "a Sky for two", written especially for a picture "the Apocalypse Code". Since then Zara is a regular guest of various television projects that are broadcast on Russian TV channels.

Star becomes her joint performance with Dmitry Pevtsov on the show "Two stars". Quite often Zara appears in the popular project "Heritage of the Republic", where he sings hits of the Soviet period. In 2016, the repertoire of the artist was replenished with another Studio album "#Millimeters", for the song "Peace to your home". Director Alan Badoev created a video for Zara. The premiere of the album took place at the solo concert of the artist in the State Kremlin Palace.

For the performance of songs "For her", "Disliked", "Amelie", "Leningrad" singer became the winner of the "Golden gramophone", "Song of the year". The awards were awarded to duet compositions of the artist – the track "Love encore", performed together with Alexander Rosenbaum, and the hit "Sleeping beauty", in which Stas Mikhailov participated. Later Zara repeated SV 2017 ensemble with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli was awarded the MUZ-TV in the category "Best international Duo". Zara continued her collaboration with the Italian and became a member of Il canto della terra concerts on the stage of "Theatre of Silence" in Tuscany and Celebrity Fight Night in the Roman Colosseum. Also Zara was lucky to work on the same stage with the legend of the French stage Mireille Mathieu. The singers performed the hit "Under the skies of Paris."

The singer devotes a lot of energy to social activities; she cooperates with UNESCO, performs with charity concerts, and oversees the ethnic international festival "Music of our hearts". In 2016, the Russian woman was awarded the honorary title of "UNESCO Artist for peace”. Collaboration with Mikhailov, releasing the song "Divide the sky."

Becoming famous, the singer and actress has faced increased media attention to her person. I must say, it's not very much to the young singer. Personal life Zara considered too closely, there were gossip and fiction. Subsequently, according to the singer, this was the reason for the collapse of her first marriage. Zara and Sergey Matvienko – the son of the former Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko – lived together for a year and a half.

For the sake of this marriage, the singer adopted Orthodoxy. It would seem, nothing foretold the sad ending, but, without having had time to savor properly details of life of newlyweds, the tabloid editions soon received a new occasion to talk on a subject "Zara and Sergey Matvienko".What was the cause of the divorce, so to the end and is not known. The singer herself blames the newspaper, but they say that the reason for the divorce of Zara and banker Sergei Matvienko that her husband demanded that the young wife to give up her career as a singer and show business, fully devoting himself to the family.

Zara married for the second time in 2008. Her husband becomes a prominent official of the Department of health. For marriage with Zara Sergei Ivanov divorced his wife, with whom he raised two children. In 2010, the first son of Zara and Sergei Ivanov, Daniel was born. After 2 years Maxim appeared. Zara is a very family woman. Taught by bitter experience, she strongly protected her own family and marriage from unnecessary hype in tabloid publications.

In early July 2016 Zara divorced her husband Sergei Ivanov. According to the singer, the divorce led to disagreements with her husband, and divorce was the only way out of the crisis in the relationship. In early 2018, the Network began to spread rumors about the roman of the singer and politician Leonid Slutsky. Shortly before that, the politician was involved in a scandal: he was accused of harassment by several journalists. Leonid Eduardovich himself denied his guilt. Comments about the love with singer Zara did not appear. Now the singer is working on a new musical material. In 2018 were released singles "I'm flying" and "Your stories", which were created videos. In autumn 2018, for the second time, the international festival "Music of our hearts" was held, which was again held under the patronage of singer Zara. This time the Kolomenskoye Museum-reserve gathered 15 thousand spectators, and performers from Serbia, Israel, Armenia, Belarus, Turkey and Russian regions of Tatarstan and Buryatia took the stage. Guests of the holiday were Goran Bregovic, Bella, "Belarusian Pesnyaries", Margarita Pozoyan, Artsvik, as well as the finalists of "the Voice. Children" and "Battle of talents" — Sofia Babich, Milan Pavlov, and Ragda Chanieva. The singer continues to delight fans with new tracks. In early January 2019, Zara released clip for the song "Not Proud", which took the 1st place of the hit parade "Super 20" channel RU.TV. The artist from her personal account in Instagram announced this joyful event, where she regularly posts photos dedicated to her creative and personal life.

Translated by David Babaev

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