caption country article_title background birth_date origin name occupation
Çingiz sadıxov soviet union → azerbaijan → united states chingiz sadykhov
 non_vocal_instrumentalist 05 april 1929 baku , azerbaijan chingiz sadykhov Çingiz sadıxov pianist
chingiz sadykhov

chingiz sadykhov -lrb- , -rrb- , also spelled sadikhov or sadighov -lrb- born 5 april 1929 , baku -rrb- , is a pianist from azerbaijan .
he graduated from bul-bul musical school in baku and azerbaijani state conservatory .
mr. sadykhov further studied for phd degree in moscow conservatory under professor goldenveyser .
then he returned to baku where he lived until 1994 before migration to the usa .
he currently resides in san francisco .
initially chingiz sadykhov played classical music but later switched to azerbaijani one .
he has spent much of his life accompanying azerbaijan 's most prominent singers , including bulbul , the founder of azerbaijan 's professional vocal school ; rashid behbudov , the singer who most often represented azerbaijan throughout the world during the soviet period ; and muslim magomayev -lrb- born 1942 -rrb- , one of the former soviet union 's best-known pop stars .
when asked how many songs are in his repertoire , chingiz readily admits that there are so many that he would n't know where to start counting .
