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Alsou Ralifovna /R?f q?z?/ Abramova (Tatar: Alsu R?f q?z? Abramova, Russian: ????? ?????????? ????????), better known as just Alsou (Russian: ?????, born on June 27, 1983) is a popular Tatar-Russian singer.

Biography

Alsou was born in B?m?ugulma, Tatarstan, USSR. Her father, Ralif Rafilovich (R?l ul?) Safin is a former Russian oligarch and a member of the Federal Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament. He is the owner of the Sochi football team Zhemchuzhina and was named the 100th richest Russian by Forbes Magazine in 2004. Her mother, Razia Iskhakovna /?sxaq q?z?/ Safina, is an architect. Alsou has two brothers, Renard and Marat (who is not the same person as the tennis player Marat Safin).

Alsou took second place at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song Solo. She performed it again at "Congratulations", the 50th anniversary Eurovision concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, in October 2005.

Celebrity

Alsou is now one of a few Russian artists who are known in other parts of the world. She is also well known in Germany, France, United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia as well as Ukraine and other former Soviet Union republics.

She is often featured in Russian magazines, and even in those of other parts of Europe.

She starred in her debut film Spirit Trap with Billie Piper, Luke Mably, Emma Catherwood and Sam Troughton. IMDb film page Spirit Trap (2005)

On March 18, 2006 Alsou married Yan Abramov, a millionaire, who comes from an Azerbaijani Jewish family, and who is said to have dated Mariah Carey among others. Yan allegedly proposed to her with a fireworks display. Several months after the half-million-dollar wedding she was gone to London planning to give birth to her first child there.

However, later on she and her husband left for the USA, allegedly fearing possible terror attacks and health problems of the mother-to-be. On September 7, 2006 Alsou gave birth to a 7-pound daughter Safina at the world-famous Cedars-Sinai in LA. The name for the girl was chosen by Yan and it is spelled the same as Alsou's maiden last name, with the accent falling on the second syllable making the only pronunciation difference. (Alsou's maiden last name is pronounced with the accent falling on the first syllable.) It is said to be an ancient Arabic name, which means 'a ship'.

The medical center, well chosen by the Muslim singer's Jewish husband, is also known as "the hospital of the stars" where Judy Garland gave birth to Liza Minnelli and Goldie Hawn gave birth to Kate Hudson, not to mention hundreds of other Hollywood-star patients.

Discography

Singles

All singles were performed in English.

* Solo (2000)

* You Are My ?1 (2000, featuring Enrique Iglesias)

* Before You Love Me (2001)

* He Loves Me (2001)

* Always On My Mind (2005)

* I Wish I Didn't Know (2005, featuring Nelly)

Albums

* Alsou (Russian: ?????, 2000, in Russian)

* Alsou (2001, in English)

* Mne prisnilas' osen' (Russian: ???? ??????????? ??????, 2002, in Russian)

* 19 (2003, in Russian and Tatar)

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