(; 15 August 1930 – 29 February 1992) was a Kazakh composer. He was born (), but ran away from school and changed his name to avoid the police. He started playing music aged 17 and mainly wrote songs in a waltz style, but in 1956, he composed the music to the patriotic song My Kazakhstan.Embassy of Kazakhstan in New Delhi, India : Weekly News It was adopted in 2006 to be the Kazakhstan national anthem by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after a few modifications in the lyrics.
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