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  Birth Name Timur Mucuraev
  Born July 25 , 1976 <br>
  Origin Grozny , Chechen-Ingush ASSR , Soviet Union
  Instrument Voice , Guitar
  Genre Music Of Chechnya , Bard (Soviet Union) , Nasheed
  Occupation Singer


Timur Mucuraev (, 1976 in Grozny , Chechnya ) is a popular Chechen Nasheed Singer and Bard .


BIOGRAPHY


Timur was born in Grozny , although his ancestors hailed from the village of Novye Atagi . He studied at Grozny's School No. 30, and would eventually graduate from the same Secondary School .

As a youth Timur excelled in Karate , winning the Championship title of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR at the age of fifteen in 1991, and after the Collapse Of The Soviet Union , capturing the championship title for the Chechen Republic in 1993 and qualifying for the Russia n National Team .

His Martial Arts career abruptly ended in December 1994, when Russian forces entered Chechnya and effectively started the First Chechen War . Timur then enlisted in the units of the Central Front division in the Chechen resistance, and was seriously wounded in the village of Serzhen-Yurt . During this war Timur would compose and sing songs as a personal Hobby . {Link without Title}

Timur's first recorded song, ''Jerusalem'', became a hit on the Caucasian Television channels, gaining extensive airplay and becoming an Anthem for many Chechen fighters during the 1999-2000 Battle Of Grozny . It was reported during the war that Russian Paratroopers mocked the song with cries of, "Guitars won't take Jerusalem !" The song also gained a degree of controversy from some Chechens who felt that it was politically inappropriate to sing about Jerusalem during a war inside Chechnya, but in response Timur indicated he was an Islamist who identified with the worldwide Jihad movement, and was not solely a Chechen Nationalist . {Link without Title}

Many of Timur's songs are stridently supportive of Chechen independence, and he personally believes that by the government in Chechnya, but widely distributed openly. {Link without Title}


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