Shamshi Kaldayakov

Şämşı Qaldaiaqov
Background information
Birth nameJamshid Anapiya uly Donbaev
Born(1930-08-15)15 August 1930
Shauyldyr aul, Otyrar District, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Died(1992-02-29)29 February 1992 (aged 61)
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Singer

Şämşı Qaldaiaqov (/ʃæmˈʃiː ˌkældəˈjækɒf/; 15 August 1930 – 29 February 1992) was a Kazakh composer. He was born Şämşı Donbaev (/dɒnˈbaɪɛf/), but ran away from school and changed his name to avoid the police. He started playing music aged 17 and mainly wrote songs in a waltz style, but in 1956, he composed the music to the patriotic song My Kazakhstan. It was adopted in 2006 to be the Kazakhstan national anthem by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after a few modifications in the lyrics.

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