"Zara" Pashaevna Mgoyan (Russian: Зара (Зарифа) Пашаевна Мгоян) was born on July 26, 1983, in Otradnoye, Leningrad Oblast

Leningrad Oblast

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, USSR. Zara is a Russian

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 pop

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 singer and actress. In 2004 she married Sergei Matvienko, the son of Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 governor Valentina Matvienko. They divorced a year later.

Zara is from Armenia

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 and is of ethnic Kurdish

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 background. Until 2004, she professed Yezidism, but has since converted to Russian Orthodoxy

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Discography

• Сердце Джульетты (Maxi-single), 1996)
• Сердце Джульетты (album, 1999)
• Зара (2000)
• Где течёт река (2002)
• Zara (a collection of her best hits, 2003)
• Не оставляй меня одну (2005)
• Я не та (2007)
• Для Неё (2009)