Rashid Behbudov

Acting

14 Dec 1915

† 09 Jun 1989

Tiflis, Russian Empire

Biography

Rashid Behbudov (Azerbaijani: Rəşid Məcid oğlu Behbudov) was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, Persian, Georgian, Hindi, Armenian, Urdu, and Bengali among other languages. Rashid Behbudov was born in Tbilisi, in 1915. His father, Majid Behbudoghlu, was a singer as well. From 1938 to 1944, Rashid moved to Armenia and worked at Yerevan State Philharmonia and Opera House, and in 1945, upon the invitation of Tofig Guliyev, Rashid Behbudov moved to Baku. In t...