Musician and singer Abror Zufarov (Аброр Зуфаров) was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in a family of famous musicians. His grandfather on his father's side was Usman Zufarov, a known maker of musical instruments. His grandfather on his mother's side was Turgun Alimatov, master musician on the Uzbek instruments tanbur, sato and dutar. From 1989 to 1996 Zufarov studied at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan in Tashkent in the class of Turgun Alimatov, after which he stayed on at the conservatory to teach. In 1997 he won the competition of Tanbur, Dutar, Nay musicians in Bukhara "Asrlar navosi" (Melodies of centuries). Abror Zufarov frequently goes on tour in many cities of Uzbekistan and other cities of the world. With the solo concerts he has visited on performances Turkey (1997 and 2007), The Netherlands (2004 and 2005), Tajikistan (2006), France (2005, 2008), Taiwan (2008). His repertoire includes music and songs in the the Uzbek Shashmaqam ("six modes") tradition. He has contributed considerably to the restoration of the tradition of Uzbek music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Abror+Zufarov">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.