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By Laman Ismayilova

The City of Winds is preparing for a welcome of famous Russian band at a grand summer event.

The long-anticipated "Zhara -2017" music festival promises to be "hot" enough to bring together the favorite pop singers on the Baku scene

Azerbaijani and Russian hits will again sound at the Sea Breeze recreation center on July 27-31.

Russian girls-band "Serebro" will perform in Baku as part of the international music festival, Trend Life reported.

"Serebro trio is precious participants of the long-awaited "Zhara -2017" summer festival ," the festival's official page in Instagram reported.

The splendid festival delighted last year with the brilliant performances of star guests, including Polad Bulbuloglu, EMIN, Philipp Kirkorov, Valery Meladze, Nyusha, Grigory Leps, A-Studio, Nikolay Baskov, Valeriya, Polina Gagarina, Ani Lorak, Dmitry Malikov, Vladimir Presnyakov, MBAND, IOWA, Yulianna Karaulova, Alexei Vorobyov, Timati, Tomas N'evergreen.

The organizers of the festival were Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov, honored artist of the Russian Federation, Grigory Leps, and founder of the Russian radio award "Golden gramophone", Sergey Kozhevnikov.

Serebro, created by Max Fadeyev in 2006, had its first public performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. The band was presented "Song#1" then awarding them the 3rd place.

The band's debut album "OpiumRoz" received critical acclaim and spawned other singles in addition to "Song #1". The group's second album, called Mama Lover, proved to be much more successful. It included the massive hit of the same name and went double platinum in Russia.

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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova

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