Daler Nazarov music in Shik (2003) was nominated for an award. Daler Nazarov Daler Nazarov () (born September 8, 1959) is a Tajik songwriter, singer and actor. Nazarov was born in the Former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan. He has lived in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan for most of his life, but had to leave the country in the early 90's due to a civil war that ended around 1997. For the next few years he lived in Almaty, Kazakhstan and then returned to Dushanbe. Among his recent work is music for feature movies. Nazarov is of the Pamiri ethnic group and
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