Childhood and youth
Emin Arasogly Agalarov, better known to fans as the singer Emin, was born in Baku in December 1979. Zodiac sign: Sagittarius. His parents, mother Irina Gril and father Araz Agalarov, studied in the same class. Their first love managed to grow into something more; they got married in their final years of college: she graduated from pedagogical, and he from polytechnic.
When the boy was 4 years old, the family moved to Moscow. As a child, in a new place, Emin quickly made friends. He went to school, behaved like ordinary children, until his father suspected that his son was in bad company.
His father, the famous businessman Araz Agalarov, is rumored to have been in such a situation himself in his youth, so he decided to send his son to Switzerland. Agalarov Jr. studied there until he was 15 years old, after which he continued his studies in the USA. His younger sister Sheila also received her education in the USA, at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Emin Agalarov as a child with his father
Emin was an independent guy from the age of 13. His desire to become financially independent and earn money himself helped him achieve success at an early age. The guy was always looking for income, looking through different options - from supermarkets to building his own business.
He worked as a salesman in an electronics store, and later worked in the same capacity in a shoe boutique. Today the man claims that this experience has been very useful to him in his life.
While living in the States, Emin Agalarov created a website selling nesting dolls and watches. In his youth, he didn’t even think that he would ever enter his father’s business.
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Emin Agalarov in his youth
Later, having learned more about his parent’s business, Emin Agalarov realized that he was interested in what he was doing. As a creative person, Agalarov combined a pragmatic, intellectual personality with a good sense of humor and subtle taste.
After graduating from Marymount Manhattan College in New York, Emin Agalarov received a diploma in business management in finance. The young man understood that working in tandem with his father would be more productive than selling nesting dolls in the USA, so he returned to Moscow. This is where the creative and commercial biography of Emin Agalarov began.
Singer Emin Agalarov: biography, wife and children
The love story of Irina and Araz can be called truly magical, because it began in childhood, the young man studied with his beloved not just in the same school, but also in the same class, after school the paths of these young people diverged slightly, although the couple were in relationship, the man chose a polytechnic university for himself, and Irina went to study to become a teacher. When the training was completed, the young people decided to get married, and in 1979 Emin was born; the future singer spent his entire childhood in the capital of Azerbaijan. After some time, the young man also had a little sister.
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Although the parents of the future Russian pop artist did not live too richly, the father and mother still tried to give as much as possible to their children, and this concerned not only material wealth, but also parental attitude and upbringing. Thanks to this arrangement in the family, Emin even now tries to give his children the best, and besides this, he pays his sons a lot of paternal attention. Already in 1983, Emin’s family decided to move to the capital of our country, and so the young man came to Moscow for the first time, while the family lived in an area called Chertanovo, and it could not be called quiet in those years. In the capital, the young man went to a regular school, it was there that he met friends who drew him into an unpleasant company, and in order to protect his son from problems, the father decided to send the future singer to Switzerland.
Perhaps Emin Agalarov’s personal life began precisely from the first days of independence, but upon arrival in another country, the young man had to live in a boarding school, where teachers observed extremely strict discipline, which is what helped the young man acquire such a persistent and strong character.
Until the age of fifteen, the young man lived on the Internet, but even in such a strict environment, the young man tried to somehow realize himself. Emin organized card tournaments to win some money for personal needs, and he was very good at earning money this way. After graduating from online school, singer Emin’s personal life began to develop more actively, as he went to live in America.
Personal life
Emin Agalarov owns several real estate properties in different countries of the world. This is a house in New Jersey, a huge mansion on the Caspian coast, and a penthouse in a residential complex on Krasnaya Presnya. The singer has Russian citizenship.
Emin Agalarov's wedding coincided with the release of his first album in 2006. The singer’s wife was the daughter of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Leyla Aliyeva. The newlyweds celebrated their wedding twice, in Moscow and Baku.
It is known that Emin Agalarov and Leyla Aliyeva began dating after a number of traditions and customs. Before the actual proposal, the guy first asked permission from the bride's father to look after his daughter, and only then asked for her hand in marriage.
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Emin Agalarov and Leyla Aliyeva
In 2008, the happy couple became the parents of twins, the sons were named Mikail and Ali. Emin Agalarov and his wife Leila were torn between the two countries for a long time. The wife lived with the twins in London, and the man lived in Moscow. Every week the father of the family tried to visit his family, and Leila was engaged in social activities during the period of separation.
In May 2020, it became known that the couple had officially separated. It is noteworthy that they did not make a secret of the divorce and immediately announced it on their pages on social networks.
Emin Agalarov openly spoke about the reason for the separation in an interview a couple of months later. He admitted that he and Leila did not have a personal relationship, and he did not want to imitate family life. Contrary to rumors, none of them cheated on each other; Emin did not have any mistresses about whom the yellow publications wrote.
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Emin Agalarov and his children
The former spouses maintained friendly relations. According to Emin, today they are even warmer than they were during their marriage. The businessman still cares about his family and is proud of his children. Now his sons often visit their father's house.
A popular, wealthy and handsome handsome man (height 180 cm, weight 78 kg), also according to HELLO magazine! the most stylish man in Russia – 2020, couldn’t stay alone for long. In 2020, it became known who he was dating. Emin Agalarov was spotted next to a girl whom they recognized as “Miss Mordovia” 2004, Alena Gavrilova. Emin Agalarov posted a photo with the model on his Instagram page.
In the spring of 2016, the couple appeared at the HELLO! magazine awards, and then at a charity ball hosted by the Mikhail Rudyak Foundation. And in 2020, the premiere of Emin Agalarov’s new video for the song Goodlove took place, where Alena got the main role.
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Wedding of Emin Agalarov and Alena Gavrilova
On July 14, 2020, it became known that serious changes had occurred in the singer’s personal life. Emin Agalarov and Alena Gavrilova got married.
The wedding ceremony took place at the Agalarov Estate golf club near Moscow, which belongs to Emin’s family. The lovers decided not to attract increased media attention to the celebration, but nevertheless the journalists managed to find out some details of the wedding.
The wedding ceremony was conducted by Andrei Malakhov, and among the guests were Emin’s stage and business colleagues Grigory Leps, Timati, Valery Meladze, Alexander Serov, Zara, Steven Seagal and others.
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Emin Agalarov and Alena Gavrilova became parents.
At the end of 2020, Alena gave Emin a daughter, who was named Athena. The singer often posts pictures with the girl on his Instagram account. According to the performer, he is ready to become a dad at least twice more.
Unfortunately, family happiness turned out to be short-lived, and in May 2020, Emin announced that he was divorcing Gavrilova. He did not comment on what was happening.
On the Internet, fans of the singer immediately began to speculate about the reason for the couple’s separation. It is quite possible that the artist gave in to his parents, who initially did not recognize their son’s second wife and were not even present at the wedding celebration.
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Emin Agalarov and Alena Gavrilova broke up
Rumor has it that Araz Agalarov, an entrepreneur who in 2017 occupied 51st place in the Forbes ranking of “200 richest businessmen in Russia,” threatened to deprive his son of his inheritance. The fortune of the Agalarov family as of 2019 was estimated at $1.9 billion.
Alena Gavrilova admitted on Instagram that the news of the divorce took her by surprise on her mother’s birthday.
Music and business
Today Emin Agalarov is the first vice president of the group. Things are going well, but this is not the end of Emin’s potential. While still in America, he began to show interest in music.
Painstaking work, strong character and the desire to achieve success in the musical field allowed Agalarov to release his first album in 2006. The disc called Still was not the only one. Soon, Emin Agalarov's discography was enriched with three more albums: Incredible, Obsession and Devotion.
In 2011, Emin, at the initiative of David Lynch, was nominated for a Grammy Award as the discovery of the year. Many pop music fans noted the artist’s mesmerizing voice and the genuine passion in his performance.
In May 2012, the singer performed as a special guest at the Eurovision Song Contest. The same year, the album After The Thunder was released, after which Agalarov was invited to sing at Jennifer Lopez’s concert in Baku.
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Emin Agalarov and Grigory Leps
In the winter of 2013, Emin Agalarov presented fans with his debut Russian-language album entitled “On the Edge,” which included 14 new compositions. In addition, the Russian singer and Italian tenor Alessandro Safina sang Muslim Magomayev’s famous composition “Blue Eternity” (“About the Sea, the Sea”). Fans know that the Soviet pop star is Agalarov’s idol, but there is no family connection between them.
The singer did not delay the release of the new disc and already at the beginning of 2014 presented the album “Frankly”. It included the song “Call Me,” which he performed in a duet with Ani Lorak. The album included several more compositions performed by Emin with other stars: with Stas Mikhailov he sang the composition “Shores”, with Grigory Leps - “Hello, Earth”, with Soso Pavliashvili - “I Repent”.
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Emin Agalarov and Tamara Sinyavskaya
2014 was a particularly successful year for the popular artist. His Russian song “I live better than anyone else” (“I live like this”) won the Golden Gramophone award and became a hit; a video was made for it, in which Paulina Andreeva starred. Emin Agalarov went on tour to Russian cities.
In 2020, Emin gave fans two new albums at once - More Amor and “8 in the Fall.” The latter included a joint composition with Grigory Leps “Women Like Me.”
Emin Agalarov regularly pampers lovers of his creativity with new songs and discs. In 2020, he not only presented the new album LoveIs a Deadly Game, but also, together with Sergei Kozhevnikov and Grigory Leps, became the organizer of the “Heat” festival, which was held in the capital of Azerbaijan in July.
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Emin Agalarov, his sister and mother
The brightest pop stars of Russia took part in “Heat”. In the same year, Emin Agalarov recorded two new songs in a duet with Ani Lorak, these are the compositions “I Can’t Say” and “Forgiveness”.
In 2020, with new and beloved old hits, Agalarov went on tour around the country, traveling to 50 cities in Russia. Emin's concerts were a resounding success. Together with Alexander Kuzmin, the singer released a duet album “Forgive me, my love”, which included such hits as “Siberian Frosts”, “In Zero Gravity”, “Fragments of Summer”.
It is noteworthy that Donald Trump himself once starred in Emin’s video. The current US President appeared in the video for the 2013 song In Another Life. Agalarov does not hide the fact that he is personally acquainted with Trump, because Crocus City Hall has hosted the Miss Universe competition more than once, and, as you know, Donald Trump is the owner of this competition.
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Emin Agalarov and his grandmother
Supporters of the US Democratic Party hastened to report that Emin Agalarov was involved in attempts to influence the American elections. The singer himself stated that, despite his acquaintance with Trump, he never tried to influence the outcome of the election of the president by voting.
As for business, Emin Agalarov does a lot here too. He leads many projects. For example, he owns a shopping mall that houses the Crocus City Hall concert hall. The singer and businessman also oversees the chain of Vegas shopping and entertainment complexes, the Crocus Group restaurant chain and the Sea Breeze Resort development project in Azerbaijan.
In 2020, Emin found himself at the epicenter of a scandal. An unpleasant incident occurred in the Rose Bar, which belongs directly to Agalarov. The manager of a cafe kicked a disabled person out of the establishment. Upon learning of this, the owner of the bar, Emin, was extremely upset. He personally apologized for the actions of his employee, who, of course, was fired.
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Emin Agalarov and his father with children
However, Agalarov did not stop with apologies. The singer offered the young man cooperation. He asked him to act as a consultant - a person who would help conduct training that would increase the level of tolerance among employees.
In 2020, the singer acquired a new hobby - cinema. Firstly, he got his first role in the film “Night Shift”, and secondly, he became its producer. Emin coped with the small job brilliantly, because he has repeatedly played different characters in his music videos. The film premiered in cinemas in June 2020.
Later, the artist released a video for the song “Incredible,” in which he played a couple in love with Diana Pozharskaya. The video was created in an unusual way: in addition to cameras, the performers themselves filmed what was happening on smartphones. At the same time, the hit “Heart in Half” appeared, which Agalarov performed in a duet with Jose Mamedov.
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Emin Agalarov and Ivan Urgant in the show “Evening Urgant”
Emin is also involved in charity work, for example, in March 2018, after the tragedy in Kemerovo, he went on a tour, the proceeds from which were donated to the Muslim Magomayev Charitable Foundation.
Subsequently, the fund sent the collected amount (about 15 million rubles) to the Kemerovo branch of the Red Cross, as well as to individual assistance programs for the families of victims.
Emin often demonstrates an excellent sense of humor. So, in 2018, a photo appeared on the artist’s Instagram page in which he appeared bald. The singer admitted that this is the first time he appears in public without a wig. The post received more than 9 thousand comments. Later it turned out that Agalarov was joking in this way.
Previously, the artist introduced the audience to a comic video with which he congratulated his father on his anniversary in 2015. The video for The Godfather featured Emin along with his sons Ali and Mikail, Irina Agalarova, Vladimir Vinokur, Lev Leshchenko and the hero of the occasion himself.
Emin in business and career
When the nineties were in the yard, the future singer had already moved to live in the USA, it was there that he decided to start his own business, since this was of great interest to the young man. While studying at a business college, the man additionally tried to realize himself in various online stores, not rarely advised customers who visited electronics stores. In addition, the young man worked as a shoe salesman and for some time was involved in an online watch store. Already when Emin became a wealthy and respected man, he often said that he needed the simplest work as a valuable experience; without it, a man would not have been able to understand the value of money.
Emin Agalarov: singer
Of course, at that time, the biography and wife of Emin Agalarov were of no interest to anyone, but as soon as the man began to receive large incomes and appeared at social parties, the girls tried to find out more about the attractive young man. While the man was engaged in his activities as a seller, his father helped him get up to speed on his own business; already in 2012, Emin returned to live in Moscow, where he began working in the company with his father. A company called Crocus Group operates even today, Emin and his father are still its leaders.
Emin Agalarov now
The artist’s creative life continues to develop. In 2020, Agalarov presented a new lyrical composition “My Girl” and a disc of the same name.
In 2020, the singer took part in a new collaboration, performing the new hit “Fireplace” in a duet with JONY. The artists managed to shoot a video for the song before the quarantine was announced. The man spoke to Ivan Urgant on the TV show “Evening Urgant” about how the coronavirus affected Agalarov’s business and his life. At the end of March of the same year, the artist visited Regina Todorenko’s studio for her show for her YouTube channel.
Despite the difficulties, Emin continues to work on preparations for the anniversary music festival “Heat”, which he planned to hold in the summer both in a regular and online format. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory Day, Agalarov performed a song of the same name in the Azerbaijani language.
