Sevil Aliyeva (born 12 October 1955) is an Azerbaijani composer and the founder of Space TV.
[1] Born in Baku in 1955 to Heydar Aliyev and Zarifa Aliyeva,[2][3] Sevil started to learn music when she was 6 years old.
[2] In 1974, when Heydar was appointed First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, the whole family, including Sevil and her younger brother, Ilham Aliyev, who was studying at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) during that time, moved to Moscow.
[1] She married Makhmud Mamed-Guliev,[2] who has been serving as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1993.
[4] Sevil, who advocated for freedom of people, was not in favour of her father's ruling style.