51 Musicians from Tbilisi

Gigi Adamashvili is a Georgian singer and musician.

George Andguladze is a Georgian operatic bass.

Elisabeth Batiashvili, professionally known as Lisa Batiashvili, is a prominent Georgian violinist active across Europe and the United States. A former New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence, she is acclaimed for her "natural elegance, silky sound and the meticulous grace of her articulation". Batiashvili makes frequent appearances at high-profile international events; she was the violin soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize concert.

Rashid Behbudov was an Azerbaijani singer and actor.

Alexander Beridze is a Georgian classical pianist, and founder and artistic director of the New York Piano Festival. He won the gold medal at the 53rd (2009) World Piano Competition at age 29. In 2011, Beridze performed in recital at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. His performances have been broadcast in the United States, the Republic of Georgia, Russia and 54 other countries.

Elisso Bolkvadze or Eliso Bolkvadze is a Georgian classical pianist born in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Nani Bregvadze is a Georgian Soviet singer and actress. She was born, raised and started her career in Soviet Georgia in the USSR, then gained USSR-wide popularity during 1957 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. Bregvadze has performed both with the Georgian music groups and solo.

Khatia Buniatishvili is a French-Georgian concert pianist.

Paata Burchuladze is a Georgian operatic bass and civil activist. After his debut in his native Tbilisi in 1976, he embarked on a 35-year-long musical career during which he made appearances at leading opera houses across Europe and the United States. Through his foundation, he became involved in children charity in Georgia in 2004. From May to December 2016, Burchuladze briefly entered politics of Georgia, founding the political party State for the People to challenge the incumbent Georgian Dream coalition government in the scheduled October 2016 parliamentary election, in which the party failed to win any seat in the legislature. Since July 2017, Burchuladze has been leading the opera division of Moscow's Mikhailovsky Theatre, one of Russia's oldest opera and ballet houses.

Mariam Chachkhiani is a Georgian singer, best known for winning Season 2 of Imedi's reality TV singing competition The Voice of Georgia as part of David Porchkhidze's team.

Gyulli Chokheli is a Soviet and Georgian pop singer. Meritorious Artist of the Georgian SSR (1967).

Haykanoush Danielyan was an Armenian opera singer (soprano), Armenian classical singer, music educator, laureate of the USSR State Prize. Danielyan was the first Armenian singer who was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1939).

Niaz Diasamidze is a Georgian musician, singer, songwriter, calligrapher and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of 33a.

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Mariko Ebralidze is a Georgian jazz singer who represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 along with the group The Shin with the song "Three Minutes to Earth".

Tamara "Tako" Milanova is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and actress. She represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, with the song "Keep the Faith", but failed to qualify to the final.

Raya Garbousova was a Russian-born American cellist and teacher.

Khadija Osman bey qizi Gayibova was an Azerbaijani pianist. From Georgia in the then USSR, Gayibova died in Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s.

Stella Grigorian is a Georgian operatic mezzo-soprano who trained at the music academy in Tbilisi. On completing her studies at the Vienna Conservatory, she made her début at the Vienna State Opera in 1998. She has performed in many leading roles, mainly in Austria and Germany but also in France, Switzerland and Denmark. In 2008, she released the album I'm suddently Spanish!

Tamara Mikhailovna Gverdtsiteli is a Georgian singer, actress and composer, People's Artist of Ingushetia, Georgia and Russia.

Liana Isakadze is a Georgian violinist.

Anri Jokhadze is a Georgian pop singer from Tbilisi who represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "I'm a Joker". The singer is a winner and laureate of 13 international contests. Prior to his appearance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Anri Jokhadze has also represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 as a backing vocalist for Diana Gurtskaya and her song "Peace Will Come." He is also the composer of the Georgian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, "Keep the Faith" sung by Tamara Gachechiladze.

Giya Kancheli was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia but resided in Belgium.

Aram Il'yich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.

Vakhtang "Buba" Kikabidze is a Georgian singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician. He performed in a number of films, among them the main role of a helicopter pilot in the iconic Soviet film Mimino.

Zaza Korinteli better known by his stage name Zumba is a Georgian rock musician, folklorist and civic activist. His music fuses a wide variety of genres, principally Georgian folk tradition, rock, and reggae. Being a multi-instrumentalist on guitar, bass, wind instruments, percussions, and vocals, he leads the band ZumbaLand and also collaborates within several other musical projects. His stage name is an acronym of a Georgian phrase zogjer ubralod moindome, bolos agisruldeba, translated as "Just wish sometimes – it will eventually come true."

Alexander Korsantia is a Georgian international award-winning pianist.

Merab Kostava was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he led the dissident movement in Georgia against the Soviet Union, until his death in a car accident in 1989.

Giorgi Latso is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. He is listed on the list of famous alumni from USC Thornton School of Music. Latso has won several international piano competitions and awards. He is best known for his interpretations of Chopin and Debussy. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Elisabeth Leonskaja is a Soviet and Austrian pianist. She was born to a family of Jewish and Polish extraction living in Tbilisi, then the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Nino Machaidze is a Georgian operatic soprano. She gained international attention after being cast as Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. She performs primarily in 19th-century Italian and French operas.

Badri Maisuradze is a Georgian tenor opera singer, a leading dramatic tenor of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia.

Mariam Mamadashvili is a Georgian child singer. She won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 where she represented Georgia with the song "Mzeo". She has been living in the United States since 2015.

Eka Mamaladze is a Georgian singer and pianist. She performs Georgian and Russian romances – both in a duet with her mother Nani Bregvadze, with daughter Natalia Kutateladze, and solo.

Shovkat Hasan qizi Mammadova was an Azerbaijani opera singer and music instructor.

Alexander Shamil'evich Melik-Pashayev, PAU, was a Soviet-Armenian conductor. He made numerous highly regarded recordings with Melodiya in the 1940s and 1950s including memorable versions of Boris Godunov and The Queen of Spades.

Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a Georgian-British singer and songwriter. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of eight – first to Belfast, and then to London in 1999. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. In 2006, she became the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist.

Sopho "Sofia" Nizharadze is a Georgian singer, actor, and songwriter who represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "Shine". Sofia Nizharadze was a judge on the TV shows Georgia's Got Talent', 'Only Georgian' and 'The X Factor Georgia.

Ioseb Raminovich "Soso" Pavliashvili is a Russian singer of ethnic Georgian descent.

Liza Japaridze, better known by her stage name Lizi Pop, is a Georgian singer, actress, model, dancer, and television presenter. She represented Georgia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Malta with the song "Happy Day", and co-hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Tbilisi with Helen Kalandadze.

Margarita Anatolyevna Pushkina is a Russian lyricist, writer and singer. She has written lyrics for several Soviet and Russian heavy metal groups, including Aria, Master and Kipelov.

Anita Rachvelishvili is a Georgian operatic mezzo-soprano. She is especially known for singing Verdi; conductor Riccardo Muti said in 2018: "She is without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet. Without. Doubt." She is also well known for singing Bizet's Carmen. Opera News magazine has stated that "Rachvelishvili is a unique dramatic presence. Her dark, smoldering eyes and cascading black curls are striking, but what is unusual is the juxtaposition of fiery surface and an inward-focused quality, seeming to draw power from some secret space."

Sayat-Nova was a Georgia-born Armenian poet, musician and ashugh, who had compositions in a number of languages. His songs and poems are in the Armenian, Georgian, Turkish, and Persian languages.

Regina Shamvili is an American concert pianist and an artist of the United States Department of State, born in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Nino Sulaberidze, better known by her stage name Nina Sublatti, is a Georgian singer, songwriter, and model.

Tamta Goduadze, known as simply Tamta, is a Georgian-Greek singer. She first achieved popularity in Greece in 2004 for her participation in Super Idol Greece, in which she placed second. She went on to release several charting albums and singles in Greece. Tamta became a mentor on X Factor Georgia in 2014, and The X Factor Greece in 2016.

Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception and is most famous for his movie scores, primarily the score to Seventeen Moments of Spring.

Ketevan "Keti" Topuria, also sometimes known as Keta Topuria, is a Georgian singer and the current lead vocalist for the Kazakh group A-Studio. She currently lives in Russia.

Lela Tsurtsumia is a Georgian pop singer and actress. Born in west Georgia and raised in Tbilisi, she graduated in Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University. She sings in Georgian, Megrelian and Laz languages.

Sophie Villy is a singer-songwriter and composer, she performs internationally in both English and Georgian. Villy has composed soundtracks for feature films from Georgia, America, and France, one of which "Lost in Escapade" was selected for the Cannes Festival Short Film Palme d'Or competition in 2015 and won Best Original Music at Spain's Euro Film Festival. She has been reported by KEXP, KCRW in Los Angeles, BBC Radio 2 and London's The Guardian newspaper as a representative of Georgia's new wave in music. Periodicals in Kiev also document Villy's role within domestic songwriting. At a time of increasing nationalist tensions, her multilingual songs are debated by the Ukrainian and Georgian media as a protest of people who are tired of politics and aspire for peace in their country.

Eliso Virsaladze, is a Soviet and Georgian pianist.