AZERBAIJANI SINGER TAKES OFFENSE AT BIG APPLE MUSIC AWARDS ORGANIZERS AND SPECULATES ABOUT ‘ARMENIAN FACTOR’
15:13 06/04/2015 >> SOCIETY
Some time ago Azerbaijani media, citing People’s Artist of Azerbaijan
Aygun Kazimova’s page in the social network, reported that she
had allegedly rejected her prestigious Big Apple Music Awards and
dismissed their invitation to the awards ceremony due in July of
the current year because the organizers are Armenian. However, it
eventually turned out that Kazimova was rejected the award in the same
nomination where another People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, Brilliant
Dadasheva, had earlier been awarded. So, she ended up spreading
all sorts of rumors about the Big Apple Music Awards organizers,
Azerbaijani media outlet Moderator.az writes.
According to the article, Gulshan Kurbanbayeva sent an open letter to
the Azerbaijani press expressing her regret that the topic was still
being actively discussed on the Azerbaijani information platforms.
“Last year Brilliant Dadasheva was a Big Apple Awards winner. Later
we got an application-offer from Aygun Kazimova to take part in
the competition and approved it. Notably, she sent the completed
application form of the contest from her personal e-mail and
even thanked that her application was approved. However, she later
declared that she also wanted to get an award in the same nomination as
Brilliant Dadasheva. We calmly explained to her that it was impossible
as that nomination was designed only for traditional music performers.
Sadly, the angered singer, who apparently could not repeat Dadasheva’s
success, started to spread rumors about our Awards,” the representative
of the Awards said. She added that if some young star behaved like
that, they would try to understand her, yet the 45-year-old Azerbaijani
singer’s intention to achieve her aim using such methods was neither
comprehensible nor acceptable.
Remarkably, Kazimova’s producer, Tarikh Aliyev, in an interview to
Azerbaijani media outlet Qafqazinfo, flatly denied the statements
of the letter. He went on claiming that the Azerbaijani singer will
not take part in the Awards because of the Armenian organizers,
and threatened to fly to the US and ‘clear up all the matters with
that Kurbanbayeva.’
People’s Artist of Azerbaijan Brilliant Dadashova had become an object
of severe criticism after the media spread information according to
which the singer was honored with Big Apple Music Awards: the award
was organized by an Armenian company working in the US.
Earlier, in 2009, a questioning took place in Azerbaijan of everyone
who had dared to vote for the Armenian representatives in Eurovision
Song Contest. Then the Turkish singer Hadise also became the target
of Azerbaijani hysteria because of her brave position concerning the
issue of the Armenia-Turkey border opening.
It is also remarkable that the Azerbaijani media write that the recent
period has seen an increase of articles and stories about Armenia
and the Armenians in the press of the country that contain insults,
obscene language and unflattering remarks. In early November 2014,
the head of the Department of expertise, programming and analytics
of the National Television and Radio Council of Azerbaijan, Tavakyul
Dadashev, called on Azerbaijani media to go on using insults in the
articles about Armenia as much as possible.
Recently calls to ‘keep away’ from the Armenians yet another time were
voiced in the Azerbaijani media, and even a most insignificant contact
with the Armenians was characterized as ‘criminal collaboration against
the interests of Azerbaijan.’ Moreover, the cultural representatives
who had ever taken a photo with an Armenian and posted the selfie on
the social networks were sharply criticized.
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