{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/person/3099449/roza-rymbaeva", "name": "Roza Rymbaeva", "url": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/person/3099449/roza-rymbaeva", "knownForDepartment": "Acting", "description": "She was born on October 28, 1957, at the 9th railway station of Djangiztobe in the Semipalatinsk region, where she also graduated from a boarding school. She was one of 8 children in the family. Her father, a railroad worker, passed away in 2014, and her mother, Aytu, a homemaker, died in 2013.\n\nHer older brother also became a musician and had a significant influence on her in childhood. After school, Rymbaeva studied at the Semipalatinsk Music College for three years.\n\nIn 1975, she first participated in a song contest dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. There, she was noticed by the chief conductor of the republican youth pop ensemble Gulder, Taskyn Okapov, who invited her to join as a soloist.\n\nFrom 1976 to 1979, she was a soloist of the Gulder youth pop ensemble. Since 1979, she became a soloist of the pop ensemble Aray, where her husband, Taskyn Okapov, was the director and artistic leader.\n\nRymbaeva gained widespread fame in June 1977 at the Golden Orpheus Festival in Bulgaria, where she won the Grand Prix for performing the song Aliya, dedicated to the memory of the sniper of the Great Patriotic War, Aliya Moldagulova.\n\nIn 1977, Rymbaeva also participated in the program Voices of Friends with the song Lady Carnaval (music by K. Svoboda, lyrics by I. Shtaydl, Russian lyrics by O. Gadjikasimov).\n\nHer peak popularity came in 1977-1979, when she reached the finals of the Song of the Year festival and, in 1978, was ranked third among the best female singers of the USSR in the Sound Track chart, right after Alla Pugacheva and Sofia Rotaru.\n\nSince 1979, she has been a soloist of the Republican Concert Association Kazakhconcert and, since 1995, has combined her work with teaching at the Kazakh Academy of Arts named after T. Zhurgenov.\n\nIn 1984, she graduated from the faculty of musical and dramatic comedy at the Theater and Art Institute in Almaty.\n\nIn 2000, she participated again in the final of Song of the Year in Moscow with the song Love Has Come, composed by Raimonds Pauls and with lyrics by Robert Rozhdestvensky.\n\nIn 2008, she carried the torch at the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2011, she performed the anthem and carried the torch at the VII Winter Asian Games held in Kazakhstan.\n\nIn 2012, she went on a concert tour to Japan, Russia, Turkey, and Belarus.\n\nIn 2014, she participated in the Kazakhstan Days in Saint Petersburg, performing on the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater. In spring, she toured Volgograd, performing with the local pop-symphonic orchestra.\n\nIn 2015, Rymbaeva and her eldest son Ali Okapov appeared in the music video Our Beshbarmak is Fresh by Alexander Shumsky, which caused mixed reactions from the audience.\n\nIn 2017, she held a large solo concert in Astana, dedicated to her 60th anniversary.\n\nIn October 2021, she participated twice in the Duets show on the Russia-1 TV channel.\n\nIn 2023, she performed at the Voice of Asia festival.\n\nIn 2024, she headed the jury at the Slavianski Bazaar 2024 competition in Vitebsk.\n\nShe currently lives in Almaty.", "birthDate": "1957-10-28", "birthPlace": "Dzhangiztobe, Semipalatinskaya oblast, Kazakh SSR, USSR", "alternateName": [ "Роза Рымбаева", "Роза Куанышевна Рымбаева", "Roza Rymbayeva" ], "image": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/30XjoyA1efe547ILzQTwyV1MYOy.jpg", "sameAs": [ "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14279995" ], "lastVerified": "8 May 2026", "filmography": [ { "mediaType": "tv", "tmdbId": 215149, "title": "Дуэты", "year": "2021", "role": "as Self - Singer", "roleKind": "cast", "voteAverage": 8, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jGMEf46xFvMIsY2YwHprOIsStHY.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/tv/215149/-2021" }, { "mediaType": "movie", "tmdbId": 832295, "title": "Three Days of a Holiday", "year": "1982", "role": "Cast", "roleKind": "cast", "voteAverage": 7, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kt4DsfeeWKLouOHe2g4bBtdlu7A.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/832295/three-days-of-a-holiday-1982" }, { "mediaType": "movie", "tmdbId": 1061217, "title": "Goodbye, Medeo", "year": "1982", "role": "as Raushan Asenova / Aliya Asenova", "roleKind": "cast", "voteAverage": 9, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ulDN7U8tH4DMNdnWkFkkXbuPvXM.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/1061217/goodbye-medeo-1982" }, { "mediaType": "movie", "tmdbId": 1445140, "title": "The Golden Record", "year": "1983", "role": "as Self", "roleKind": "cast", "voteAverage": null, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mk4BJSl0cE43qenv8MvICO1iCwq.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/1445140/the-golden-record-1983" }, { "mediaType": "movie", "tmdbId": 1026330, "title": "Daughter-in-Law Is Also A Human 2", "year": "2018", "role": "Cast", "roleKind": "cast", "voteAverage": null, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mTk0mpXyY3DCjVRz4j1vtE1LnbV.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/1026330/daughter-in-law-is-also-a-human-2-2018" }, { "mediaType": "movie", "tmdbId": 1340997, "title": "Little Chicken", "year": "1984", "role": "Songs", "roleKind": "crew", "voteAverage": null, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7YICwS62R7Cw1Mwa8txW7J7NHwA.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/1340997/little-chicken-1984" }, { "mediaType": "movie", "tmdbId": 1406690, "title": "Stars Olympic Regatta", "year": "1980", "role": "Cast", "roleKind": "cast", "voteAverage": null, "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vegP3PFjZSxjIGgJ8g128lgAgp2.jpg", "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/1406690/stars-olympic-regatta-1980" } ] }