Smagul Umbetbaev
About the artist
Smagul Umbetbaev (Russian: Смагул Умбетбаев; born in 1949) comes from Central Kazakhstan and belongs to the Tama tribe. He is considered to be the greatest living Kazakh kobyz player. He started playing the kobyz at the age of 14 following a dream in which his vocation appeared to him. After making his first kobyz himself, he listened to Zhappas Kalambaev and Daulet Myktybaev on the radio and then spent only two years at the national conservatory.
Top songs
- Erden
- Aqqu
- Zhalgyz ajaq
- Kekilik
- Qambar batyr
- Kertolgau
- Syrgaqty
- Qazan
- Zholdy qonyr
- Imanzhusuptyn ëni
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- Imanzhusuptyn eni
- Zholdy gonyr
- Qonyr
- Abyz tolghauy
- Shynyrau
- Zholaushynyn qonyr kui
- Zhez-kiik
- Mylnyq-Zarlyq
- Ajrauqtyn aschy kui
- Erden (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Zhalgyr Ajaq
- Imanzhusuptyn Ëni
- Syrgaqty (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Kertolgau (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Qazan (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Kekilik (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Zholdy gonyr (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Aqqu (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Zhalgyz ajaq (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Imanzhusuptyn ëni (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Qambar batyr (Smagul Umbetbaev)
- Akku
- Kazan
- Shynyrau kus
- Kambar-Batyr
- Abyz tolghaury (Saian Aqmolda)
- Ajrauqtyn aschy kuï (Saian Aqmolda)
- Zholdly Qonyr
- Zhalgyz ayak
- Shynyrau (Saian Aqmolda)
- Zholdy konyr
- Kekilik - Smagul Umbetbaev
- Zhalgyz ajaq - Smagul Umbetbaev
- Mylinyq- Zarlyq (Saian Aqmolda)
- Qonyr (Saian Aqmolda)
- Zholaushynyn gonyr (Saian Aqmolda)
- Zhez kilk (Saian Aqmolda)
- Qazan - Smagul Umbetbaev
- Zholdy qonyr - Smagul Umbetbaev
- Aqqu (the swan)
- Imanzhusuptyn âni (The song of Imanzhusup)
- Qambar batyr (the hero Qambar)
- Syrgaqty (traditional)
- Kertolgau (traditional)
- Kekilik (bird of the pheasant family)
- Zholdy qonyr (kui of the traveller)
- Zhalgyz ajaq (the only trace, the imprint)
- Abyz tolghauy (Abyz_s thought)
- Kambar batyr
- Syrgaqty - Smagul Umbetbaev
- Kertolgau - Smagul Umbetbaev
- Ditole
- Inedit - Kazakhstan - Kobyz, ancient viol of the shamans.cue
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