Education
Leyla Aliyeva graduated from the Baku Academy of Music with a degree in choral directing and has a master"s degree in music
Leyla Aliyeva graduated from the Baku Academy of Music with a degree in choral directing and has a master"s degree in music
This article is about the television presenter. Leyla Aliyeva (Azerbaijani: Leyla Əliyeva, born 1986, Baku) is an Azerbaijani television-presenter. On 22, 24 and 26 May 2012 she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan together with Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen.
In 2004, while in her first year of undergraduate studies, she was hired by İtelevision to work for the channel"s Department of Music, Arts and Entertainment.
Aliyeva also served as the spokesperson of Azerbaijan announcing the country"s first voting results in the country"s debut at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. She hosted the Azerbaijani national Eurovision selection tours alongside Husniyya Maharramova in 2011 and 2012.
In 2007, she began covering Eurovision news and soon rose to becoming a member of İtelevision"s Eurovision organising committee.
