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KazakhstanDimash Kudaibergen was born on May 24, 1994 in Aktöbe, western Kazakhstan. His parents Qanat Aytbayev and Svetlana Aytbayeva are both singers by profession. Kudaibergen grew up with his grandparents and also adopted his grandfather's first name as a surname. In his early childhood went to music school where he learned to play the piano and dombra. In his teens he won several singing competitions at home and abroad.

United KingdomFreddie Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara, was a British rock musician. He became known as the singer and 'front man' of the group Queen and went on to become one of the most popular rock and pop singers of all time. He was known for his extravagant stage persona and his explosive performances. He is also known as the man with one-vocal range of four octaves, which is extraordinary for a male singing voice.

United StatesWhitney Houston was a daughter of Cissy Houston (backing singer for Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, among others) and John Houston and a niece of the singer Dionne Warwick. Houston came into contact with music at an early age. Together with her mother, she toured various nightclubs as a teenager and developed her singing voice. As a fourteen-year-old girl, in 1977 she was the lead vocalist in the song Life's a Party by the Michael Zager Band. Frontman Zager arranged a record deal for the singer, but her mother thought that Houston should finish school first before she could throw herself into possible success. In 1978, Houston was one of the backing singers on Chaka Khans I'm Every Woman, which Houston would record in its own version in the 1990s for the soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard.

United StatesAretha Louise Franklin was an American gospel, soul and R&B singer. She is number one on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest singers of all time. On January 3, 1987, she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1999, she received the highest US art award, the National Medal of Arts. On January 20, 2009, Franklin sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee during Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the United States. In 2010, Franklin was named the best singer(s) of all time by the American music magazine Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.

PakistanNusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a son of Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, who taught him the basics of Qawwali. His first public appearance was at his father's funeral. Nusrat was 16 years old at the time. A year later, he formed the group Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan & Party with his uncle, among others. When his uncle died in 1971, Fateh Ali Khan became the sole leader of the family group.

United StatesElvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Often referred to as The King of Rock and Roll or The King for short, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the second half of the twentieth century. Commercially successful in many genres including pop, blues and gospel, he is one of the best-selling solo artists in music industry history with estimated sales of about 600 million records around the world. He was nominated fourteen times for a Grammy Award until 1978 and received three, all three for his gospel recordings. At the age of 36, he was awarded the Bing Crosby Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Presley is the only artist inducted into six musical Halls of Fame, namely the Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, Country, Blues, Gospel and, since 2015, in the R&B Music Hall of Fame.

TurkeySezen Aksu was born Fatma Sezen Yıldırım in Sarayköy, 20 kilometers west of Denizli. Her family moved to Bergama when she was three years old. Aksu's parents discouraged her from singing, wanting their daughter to have a steady profession as a doctor or an engineer. Her music features heavily orchestrated parts and dramatic vocals as well as sweet sweet listening songs. Since her debut in 1975, she has sold more than 40 million albums. As an inspiration and lyricist, she is the woman behind the scenes of stars such as Sertab Erener and Tarkan. She has collaborated with many artists in Turkey, including Sertab Erener, Aşkın Nur Yengi, Levent Yüksel, Hande Yener and Tarkan. She also made the CD Düğün ve Cenaze with Goran Bregović in 1997.

United KingdomKatie Melua grew up in Kutaisi (Georgia) and later in Batumi, located on the Georgian coast. At the age of eight she moved with her parents to Belfast, Northern Ireland and later to London (England). This is because of the profession of her father, heart specialist. In London, Katie Melua went to the BRIT School for the Performing Arts & Technology. This school supported by the music industry is known as a supplier of famous artists. In 2003 Katie Melua was discovered during a showcase by Mike Batt (also a singer and lyricist, but also arranger and producer) who was looking for a singer with a talent for jazz and blues. Her first album "Call Off The Search" was released in 2003. It contains two songs of her own. Her second album "Piece by Piece" was released on September 26, 2005.

TaiwanTeresa Teng was a Chinese singer from Taiwan. She was known for her renditions of classical Chinese poems set to modern music and her romantic ballads. Teng sang in it Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, Minnanyu, Japanese, Indonesian and English. She was extremely popular in China, including in karaoke bars. A well-known expression was therefore: "Deng Xiaoping rules China by day, Deng Lijun rules China by night." Teng's music has often been performed by pop stars. For example, Faye Wong dedicated a complete album of Teng songs to her and David Tao provided her classic The Moon Represents My Heart with a modern R&B sauce.

GreenlandNive Nielsen is a Greenlandic singer-songwriter and actress. She performs with her band The Deer Children as Nive. As an actress, she appeared in the television series "The Terror" in appearance.

OmanSalem Rashed Al-Souri was a vocalist and oud player. Because of his connection to the art of sound, he was called the Voice of the Gulf. The singer and vocalist Salem Rashed al-Suri was born between 1910 and 1912 and died in Tire, Oman, but spent most of his life in India, Bahrain and Kuwait. Although he began in the field of singing, a color of lyric poetry known in the region of Tire was accompanied by singing with a monotonous karmic pipe, but he was famous for his distinctive style in the art of sound. Sound is one of the traditional musical colors that originated in the city and is mainly sung by musicians in Bahrain and Kuwait and has been popular throughout the region. The image has contributed significantly to its development.

North MacedoniaIn 1998 he had a hit "Pušti me". In 2003 he won Beovizija with Cija si. He would go to the Eurovision Song Contest with this song for Serbia and Montenegro, but the country was only admitted in 2004. A year later, Toše Proeski was allowed to attend the Eurovision Song Contest for his native Macedonia. He reached the final with the song Life. In 2004 he became Goodwillambassadur for Unicef and recorded the Unicef hymn "This world". His album "Po tebe" was in the album top in Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months. He has collaborated with Antonija Šola and Tony Cetinski, among others. In the morning of October 16, 2007, Proeski died at the age of 26 in a car accident on the A3 highway in Croatia. His manager and the driver survived the accident. In 2019, the national football stadium in Skopje was named after him.

Czech RepublicKarel Gott (born July 14, 1939 in Pilsen), called "golden voice from Prague", is a Czech singer and composer. The pop singer, who also sings in German, also works as a visual artist and actor.

GreeceAntónis Diamantídis was a singer, born in 1893 in Istanbul. His career began in the early 1910s. He sang rebetiko, smyrneïko, laïko and other popular songs. He was born in Istanbul of a Turkish father and a Greek mother. He died in Athens in 1945.