Anzor Erkomaishvili was born in Batumi in then-Soviet Georgia into a family with a longstanding musical tradition.
Still being a student, he began collecting and transcribing the polyphonic Georgian folk repertoire, particularly from the province of Guria.
In 1968, he founded the Rustavi Choir which toured throughout Georgia and abroad for decades.
Erkomaishvili's work on researching, compiling and safeguarding the folk singing legacy earned him many awards, including the title of Meritorious Artist of Georgia (1969), Ivane Javakhishvili and Shota Rustaveli national prizes, Order of Honor and Presidential Order of Excellence (2020), Honorary Citizenship of Tbilisi (2014) and others.
[2] In 2008 he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia for the ruling United National Movement party from the single-mandate district of Ozurgeti, but he resigned his parliamentary position in March 2009.