Rafig Eyyub oglu Huseynov was born on 4 August 1946, in Shusha of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, the Azerbaijani SSR, which was then part of the Soviet Union.
[1] Huseynov worked as an illuminator at the State Committee for Radio and Television Broadcasting under the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijani SSR from July 1964.
Later, Huseynov worked as deputy chairman of the Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
[2] Hosting numerous shows on the Azerbaijani television, including the news program, as well as many interviews and on-screen concerts, he was distinguished by recognizable timbre of voice, peculiar manner of broadcasting, and had played an active role in the formation of the Azerbaijani television.
[3][5] He was buried in the Yasamal Cemetery of Baku on 3 November 2017,[6] after a farewell ceremony at the Rashid Behbudov State Song Theatre.