Isabel Risques's video: Rafig Babayev - Sad Song Cuba My Love

Rafiq Babayev – Sad Song From the Album “Cuba - My Love” (1970) Rafig Farzi oglu Babayev (Azerbaijani: Rafiq Farzi oğluBabayev, 31 March 1937, Baku—19 March 1994) was a highly intellectual and talented artist, pianist, and arranger; he caught the new pulse of Azerbaijani national and succeeded in revealing its new shades and accents. History endowed him with one more mission – to be the first to establish a school, from which several generations of talent have emerged. They include Jamil Amirov, Siyavush Kerimi, Alasgar Abbasov, Emil Hasanov, Salman Gambarov, Tofig Jabbarov, Gennady Stepanishev, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Rain Sultanov and others, who are keeping jazz music alive. Rafiq Babayev died in a terrorist atrocity in Baku’s metro on 19 March 1994.