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Zara in 2012, photo by Paha_L /www.bigstockphoto.com
Birth Name: Zarifa Pashaevna Mgoyan
Place of Birth: Leningrad, RSFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Date of Birth: 26 July, 1983
Ethnicity: Kurdish Yezidi
Zara is a Russian pop singer, actress, and social activist.
Her parents, Nadi Jamalovna and Pasha Binbashievich Mgoyan, are ethnic Yazid, from Leninakan, Armenia. Her father is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, working in the field of mechanical engineering. She has two children with her former husband Sergei Ivanov. She is an Eastern Orthodox Christian.