Place of Birth: Baku, Azerbaijani SSR (present-day Azerbaijan)
Date of Birth: June 4, 1989
Ethnicity: Azerbaijani, Tatar
Eldar Gasimov is an Azerbaijani singer. He is known for being a member of Azerbaijani duo Ell & Nikki (also known as Eldar & Nigar) together with Nigar Jamal. He and Nigar won the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. He is the son of Elmira, a teacher, and Parviz Gasimov, a doctor.
Eldar’s paternal grandmother was Firangiz Sharifova (the daughter of Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh, also known as Abbas Mirza Abdulrasul oglu Sharifzadeh (Sharifov), and of Marziyya Davudova, also known as Marziyya Yusuf qizi Davudova). Firangiz, Abbas, and Marziyya were actors.