Released 1968 | Genre Classical | |
Writer(s) Mikayil Mushfig (lyrics)
Alekper Taghiyev (music) | ||
"Sana gurban" is an Azerbaijani composition by Alekper Taghiyev with lyrics by Mikayil Mushfig. It was released first in 1968 in the performance of Zeynab Khanlarova. Due to the fact that Zeynab Khanlarova, a prominent Soviet and Azerbaijani singer, the public artist of USSR, Azerbaijani SSR, Armenian SSR and Uzbekistan SSR, enjoyed a big fame in the entire Soviet Union, the middle east and Central Asia, the songs performed by her used to become widely spread right after their release dates. Regarding the art song "Sana gurban", it is believed that after the song was performed by Khanlarova in her concert in Turkey, it became spread from there over the Arab world and Greece.
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The song was used in the Turkish movie Mavi boncuk co-directed by Ertem Eğilmez in 1974 and was later sung by a Greek singer Filippos Nikolaou under the title "Pare Pare Me" in 1970s. The song was also performed by the famous Iranian-Armenian singer Andy Madadian in 1985 in Armenian as "Garun Garun". In the Arab world the song is known as "Fatoum fatoum fatoume". Moreover, in one of the talk-shows, the Lebanese pop-star Nancy Ajram performed part of the song in Armenian.