Aysel Teymurzadeh

Also known as AySel
Born April 25, 1989 (age 27)
Origin Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Genres Pop, R&B
Occupation(s) singer, actress, photomodel

Aysel was born in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, the youngest of the three daughters of a journalist and university professor. She is a descendant of the nineteenth-century Azerbaijani author and journalist Hasan bey Zardabi. Her maternal grandmother 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.

In May 2012, Teymurzadeh got engaged to Murad Adigozalov, 39, director of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Society and divorced father of two children.According to some sources, her plan after marriage is to leave the big stage and only perform on official events. In December 2012, Teymurzadeh gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter. In May 2014, it was reported that Aysel Teymurzadeh was five months pregnant with the couple's second child. In September 2014, the couple had a son.