Aysel Teymurzadeh
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Aysel was born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, the youngest of the
three daughters of a journalist and a university professor. She is a
descendant of the nineteenth-century Azerbaijani publicist Hasan bey
Zardabi. Her grandmother on her mother's side was half-Russian,
half-Ukrainian. Aysel started to sing at the age of four and the piano
became her passion since childhood. Aysel graduated from the Intellect
Lyceum in Baku and attended Texas High School (Texarkana, Texas) in
2005-2006. Within days of her arrival in the United States, she signed
up for the local choir and began training for young vocalists
competitions. While in the U.S., Aysel won three gold medals at
contests held in the Southern Arkansas University and in the University
of Texas at Austin. In 2005, she participated in Season 4 of the
national song contest Yeni Ulduz ("New Star"). As of January 2009,
Teymurzadeh was majoring in International Relations at the Azerbaijan
University of Languages. -[Wikipedia]-