Biography
Zaynab Polvonova (Cyriilic: Зайнаб Палванова) was a maqam singer from Uzbekistan. Born in 1918, she was the greatest Uzbek singer of her time. She learnt to sing from her parents before studying with teachers like Yunus Rajabi, Faxriddin Sodiqov, Tokhtasin Jalilov, Nabijan Hasanov. Her style belongs to the Ferghana school of her original teachers.
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