Monâjât Yultchieva has been played on NTS in shows including Devotion w/ Lafawndah, featured first on 10 June 2021. Songs played include Kelmady and He Has Not Come.

Monâjât Yultchieva (born 1960), also known under her name Munadjat Yulchieva, is the leading performer of classical Uzbek music and its Persian-language cousin Shashmaqâm. She is famous for the unique quality of her voice and her natural charisma. Yultchieva was born in 1960 in the Ferghâna valley near Tashkent, and from an early age it was obvious she had a great gift as a singer. This nearly resulted in her being channelled into a career as an opera…