Emin Agalarov

Businessman and singer Emin Agalarov gave an interview with Nadezhda Yay for the YouTube channel Yay – well done. We have collected the most interesting quotes.

about sanctions

Now 80-90% of anchor brands are closed: some left the market, others took a wait-and-see attitude. H&M, Zara and Chanel still pay rent. So far, the situation is not easy. The concert hall and exhibition complex are in the same condition as foreign concerts and exhibitions have been cancelled. Many businesses have slashed their budgets. However, we continue to develop and unlock new objects.

About habits

It has become very expensive to fly in private planes, now only business class. The economy has taken off recently. And so I live how I live. Everything is fixed in everyday life, and some businesses are at risk.

About the reunion with Alena Gavrilova

We are together again. You can enter the same river as many times as you want. We’ve been together for over a year. Nothing was kept secret, no one asked us much. Now one of the main goals is to spend more time with the kids because I think they don’t interest me (due to concert events, flights). In Baku, three children go to school, and one child now lives with Alena and me. We are a big, friendly family. We went on vacation recently, there was Alena and my first wife. Spouses communicate even without me. Everyone has a friendly relationship. I’m glad this happened.

Emin Agalarov and Alena Gavrilova

Emin has four children from his two marriages. The first wife of the artist (the marriage lasted from 2006 to 2015) is Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of the President of Azerbaijan. In 2008, the couple had twin children named Ali and Mikail. In addition, the artist and businessman raises the adopted daughter of his ex-wife Amina as his own. In marriage with Alena Gavrilova, Agalarov had a daughter, Athena.

About Emin’s father’s relationship with Alena Gavrilova

He didn’t attend our wedding. Now they greet and say goodbye. There is no relationship between them. Everyone in our family makes their own decisions. If someone is against something, it is the problem of disagreeing with something… Everyone does as he sees fit.

I have a warm relationship with my father. If he is not in a relationship with my wife, that is no longer a problem. Every person should live the life he loves and be responsible for his own actions.

About raising children

I want to take a positive role in my children’s lives: I will always support my child, no matter what he chooses in the context of his profession or in the second half. Now I’m trying to artificially limit them somehow, but with little success.

Emin Agalarov with children