Rüstəm Quliyev has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue, featured first on 10 November 2022. Songs played include Ay Dili Dili.

Rüstəm Quliyev was born in 1969 in the village of Kosalar, Nagorno Karabakh. At the age of seven he had already mastered the tar before moving on to play the saz. He first encountered guitar during his military service for the USSR in Russia and quickly made a name for himself as a guitarist after returning to Azerbaijan. During the early 1990s, after years of intense fighting, he had to flee his home due to the…