WAqtoty Rahmetollaqyzy Raiymqulova is a Kazakh politician who's serving as a Minister of Culture and Sports.
WColonel Talgat Aidzhanuly Berdigulov is the current director of the Presidential Band of the State Security Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He is also concurrently the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Service. He began his service in the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan as a musician in the military brass band of the Alma-Ata Higher All-Arms Command School. He is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he graduated in 1999. He is the composer of many Kazakh military marches, including the March of Ablai Khan. He is also a laureate of national and international music competitions.
WYevgeny Grigorievich Brusilovsky was a Soviet and Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR.
WQuddus Khojamyarov was an Uyghur Soviet composer from Kazakhstan. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR.
WKadisha Onalbayeva is a pianist and composer.
WAbai Qunanbaiuly was a Kazakh poet, composer and philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam. His name is also transliterated as Abay Kunanbayev ; among Kazakhs he is known as Abai.
WKurmangazy Sagyrbaev was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist, and folk artist. He was born in 1818 in the Bukey Horde. He is buried in the Astrakhan region of Lower Volga in today's Russian Federation.
WYerkesh Shakeyev is a Kazakh composer, lyricist and songwriter, started his way from bard songs and pop hits to neoclassicism. He was born on May 5, 1962 in the village of Ruzaevka, Kokshetau region, into the family of Kokena Shakeev, the People's Akyn of Kazakhstan and the First President of the Akyns Union of Kazakhstan.
WMaira Shamsutdinova was a Soviet/Kazakh singer and composer. There is a museum in her native Pavlodar dedicated to her.
WBaluan Sholak, was a Kazakh Turkic composer, singer, poet, dombra player, dzhigit and wrestler.