In 1918, he and his mugham teacher Islam Abdullayev attended a wedding in the village of Novruzlu (today in the Agdam Rayon of Azerbaijan), where guests were listened to a gramophone record of the Iranian singer Abul Hasan Khan performing the Kurd Shahnaz variety of mugham.

He spent the next two decades touring cities of the South Caucasus, gaining huge popularity for his voice and being often mentioned in the local media, as well as in the poem Azerbaijan by Samad Vurgun.

In 1944, a year after he became People's Artist of Azerbaijan, he visited Tehran (along with four other cities in Iran) and was invited to perform at a banquet organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

[1] In 1960, he created the "Mugham studio" in the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic, where he gave private lessons to the younger hanendes.

[2] Khan Shushinski became known as a talented composer after writing a number of songs, the most famous of them being Shushanin daghlari ("The Mountains of Shusha"), dedicated to his native city.