Kalyk Akiev

Kalyk Akiev was born in 1883 in Kara-Oi, in Jumgal, into a poor family; his father was a carpenter and hunter. His meeting with the akyn Toktogul Satylganov, whom he took as his model, decided his vocation. An improviser on the komuz and the kyl kyak, he was chairman of a village soviet, then an artist of the philharmonic; he learned musical notation from a Russian musician and went in 1936 to the olympiad of popular creation. He joined the writers' union in 1938, became People's Artist of his republic the following year, and died on 3 November 1953.

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• EpicКурманбекKalyk Akiev · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature