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Naila Aziz (Beydullayeva)
Naila Aziz (Beydullayeva) Naila Aziz (June 17, 1961) is singer, songwriter, music educator, vocal teacher, consultant and mentor.

Biography
A native of Baku, Azerbaijan Naila was born in June 17 1961 in a musical family. In 1980 Naila graduated from “Asaf Zeynalli” Music College qualified to teach piano, music theory, sight singing and music literature. In 1987 she graduated with honors in Musical Theatre from the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Art.

Naila’s professional singing career started when she joined the “Jazz-Folk Ensemble” led by Vagif Gerayzade.

In 1985 she won a prize in the “Baku-Autumn 85” singing competition.

In 1987, Naila appeared on TV performing the Duet "Bayati" with Alim Qasimov which became a classic hit and is still played on TV and radio.

In the same year, she was a prizewinner of the Moscow TV show, "Tovarish Pesna" (“Comrade Song”). Her growing TV popularity gave her the opportunity to perform songs by composer Eldar Mansurov (1987”Sene sozum var”, 1989”Desem”, “Duman ichinde sheher”, “Men seninleyem”, 1990”Ulduzlar kimi”)

Career
In 1995, in Baku, her talents won her second place for songwriting. In 1989 she recorded 3 songs for the TV Musical Comedy “Gulush Sanatoriyasi’.

In 1998 Naila moved to the USA, and continued her career as a singer and voice teacher. in New York She performed frequently with “Danzas Españolas” (La Violetera”, Ya viene el Cativo”) as well as “Anacrusis”, Chamber Vocal Ensemble.

In 2007 Naila arranged soulful Azeri love song, “Sana Da Galmaz” by Tofig Guliyev for the Melodia Women's Choir of New York City as well as performed as a soloist for the program "Shout Sister Shout!”. It was the U.S. premiere for this song as performed by an all-women's choir and as a song performed by English speakers in Azeri. (Azerbaijan International, May 2007, )

As well as performing Naila continues her teaching in New York.

She has become an International Vocal Teacher, Consultant and Music Educator. Her students happily testify to the effectiveness of her method and the results they have achieved (Marta Topferova, Alfonso Cid, Andrea Tierra, Fergana Gasimova) Between 2008 and 2010 Naila appeared in two documentary movies “Vetenden Kenarda” and “Omur Yollari” focusing on her life and art both in Azerbaijan and Internationally produced by Azery “Ictimai” TV Channel and “Kepez” TV Channel.

In 2009 She was interviewed on the TV show “New Yorkers” speaking about her teaching methods.

In 2010 Naila performed Azeri songs “Oglum, Axsham Mahnisi and Arzular” in the concert “Songs from the Heart” with Melodia Women's Choir of New York City in Merkin Hall. This musical success was covered in newspapers “New Frontier”, “Azad Azerbaijan”, “Yeni Azerbaijan”,” Kaspi” That same year she was invited to Baku to participate in Eurovision 2010 TV show as a guest Expert.

In 2012 Naila was invited to Baku to receive a prize “The First-2012” in recognitions of her achievements.

Also she began writing and publishing her ongoing series of books. Her first book was “27 Oriental & Flamenco Vocal Exercises” In 2014 she publishes her second book “14 Classical Vocal Exercises” based on "Alleluia" by W. A. Mozart. She was then invited by TRT AVAZ, Turkey to participate in the TV program “Aksi Seda”.

Based in NYC Naila continues to teach and write.