Music and singing has become a soul of her, a purport of her life many years ago having unconsciously dawned upon a little girl grown up in Shirinbulak settlement of Andijan region. Listening to songs of her mother with a unique voice, she burnt with desire to sing as excellently as her mother. Having inherited the beautiful voice of her mother, the girl began to sing along, at home and for herself, and immediately attracted her relatives’ attention; and according to their advice, she went to Tashkent to win over the capital’s audience. She got admitted to Tashkent Conservatoire where she was lucky enough to be a student of an experienced tutor, Professor Shavkat Mirzaev, a well-known musician, virtuous rubob (the Uzbek national musical string instrument) player. Infatuated with her studies Munojat counted days from lesson to lesson. She endeavored, made success and dreamt about the scene while the tutor made no hurry. He set a high qualification level to her and she had to hold it.  

As Shavkat Mirzaev puts: “… if a student has not got an appropriate level, the tutor should not let him go - the hundred and one odd chances that he would have no progress... I want Munojat’s magical singing to charm everyone, and  they wish for her constant being on stage.”

And the day has come. For the first time Munojat performed with other students in “Nazm va navo” TV program dedicated to the birthday of the great Alisher Navoi. It was her moment of fame that turned into prolonged happy hours and years of creative success and triumphs.

Today she is widely known and beloved both in Uzbekistan and far abroad. Her unique voice and natural charisma enchant audience of many prestigious concert halls in the world. Be it New York, London, Paris or other cities, the concert of her is sold out for every performance long before. What is the singer’s secret? What are her songs about?

“I sing about love,” says Munojat Yyulchieva in her interview with UT correspondent. “When I sing, I feel that I pronounce each word in the name of those poets who wrote the verses. During my performance I forget about time and reality, and live with a song.”

The singer’s repertoire includes Uzbek makoms on verses by popular poet-classics such as Navoi, Fuzuli, Mashrab, Khazini and others, and modern poets as well. Makom, a classical song, is very complicated in performance and to sing a makom one should have a strong voice and high professionalism. Munojat has all these qualities.

Each year in spring the singer gives a recital. This year she wonderfully performed at Istiklol Palace.

“Her latest recital is different from previous concerts. The prepared program demonstrated Munojat’s new appearance. She performed in such a touching manner that she pour together with the audience. After each song people could sit on their places, came up to the stage expressing their deep gratitude and delight of the singer’s talent,” tells Shavkat Mirzaev about the recital at Istiklol.

Classical music amateurs have long admired the singer’s phenomenon. Therefore, an idea to found a school of Munojat Yulchieva has been suggested.

“This is a huge responsibility,” notes Munojat. “Having heard about the suggestion of the government to establish a Munojat Yulchieva School, I was very grateful for such a great attention to my creativity and high appreciation. We should justify this confidence with our work and performance of the task. It is our duty before the nation, the Motherland. We should have apprentices, followers who would inherit our experience, advance their talents in order to find their own way, own individuality, style, manner of performing. Uzbekistan has lots of talents who have enrapturing vocal guns, and who can not show up without an experienced tutor. They need a school, for sure.”

Nowadays Munojat Yulchieva lectures at the State Conservatoire in traditional singing. She has her students, some of whom graduated from the Conservatoire a few years ago and now successfully teach in different higher and secondary educational institutions around the Republic. One of them is Mamlakat Ulashova, a holder of master’s degree in Indonesia. Turabek Mukhtarov is a participant of the “Sharq taronalari” Musical Festival in 2007, where he performed with wide acclaim. Another one is Erkin Ismailov who teaches traditional singing in Bukhara musical college.

“It frequently occurs in life that an excellent singer can not be a good teacher. I had a great fortune to be a student of my tutor Shavkat Mirzaev, such an outstanding specialist in all respects, talented composer and teacher by birth; he is a radiant example for me in performing and pedagogical dimensions. During his lectures he attends to advancing students’ pedagogical qualities as well in order for us to be good teachers in addition, and pass our experience to next generation so that they could get on with it.”