Gochag Askarov was born in 1978 in Garabagh, Azerbaijan. He enrolled for music school but soon had to stop his music studies in 1992 with the Armenian occupation of Garabagh. His family fled and wandered from town to town until they settled in Baku. In 1998 he was accepted to the Baku Music College to the class of Mugham vocals. From 2004 to 2008 he studied music and traditional vocals at the National Conservatoire in Baku. In 2006 while being a student he took part in the First National TV Contest for young khanende (Mugham singers) and became one of its winners.