Malibeyli Hamid

Hamid Imamgulu oghlu Gurbanov (, 1869 – March 22, 1922) was a 19th–20th century Azerbaijani singer-khananda and tarzen, representative of the Karabakh mugham school.

Biography Hamid Gurbanov was born in Malibeyli village near Shusha in 1869. He worked as a coachman for a while, and later he joined the "Assembly of khanandas" organized by Haji Husu, where he learned classical Eastern and Azerbaijani mughams from Haji Husu and Mashadi Isi. In addition to singing, Hamid also learned to play the tar. His first tar teacher was Sadigjan.

His first performance in Shusha took place at the gathering of a person named Najafgulu Agha together with Haji Husu, Mashadi Isi, Sadigjan and Avanes. After his performance at this gathering, Hamid is often invited to public celebrations. He performed for a long time at wedding parties and public gatherings together with musicians Javadbey Khanazayski, Mashadi Zeynal, Arsen Yaramyshev, and later Mashadi Jamil Amirov and Gurban Pirimov. His brother Asgar Gurbanov also sang several mughams with him.

Later, Malibeyli Hamid's voice sank and he began to deal more with the art of playing the tar. He accompanied Kechachioghlu Muhammed, Gasim Abdullayev, Musa Shushinski, Islam Abdullayev, Mashadi Mammad Farzaliyev, Mammadgulu Shushinski, Bulbul on the tar in concerts held in Karabakh and Ganja, Tbilisi.

Malibeyli Hamid died on March 22, 1922, in Aghdam.