Nigar Camal

Ell & Nikki at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Running Scared (Ell & Nikki)   DE 33 06/03/2011 (6 weeks)   AT 22nd 05/27/2011 (5 weeks)   CH 11 05/29/2011 (2 weeks)   UK 61 05/28/2011 (1 week)

Nigar Camal (born September 7, 1980 in Baku ) is an Azerbaijani singer .

Life

Nigar Camal grew up with her grandparents. She attended high school and learned to play the saxophone . She also sang in the choir and performed with the band Pöhrə . She speaks four languages: Azerbaijani , Turkish , English and Russian . In 2001 she graduated from Khazar University in her hometown with a degree in economics and business management .

On February 11, 2011, she won the Azerbaijani preliminary round Milli seçim turu and then represented her home country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf together with Eldar Qasımov , who was nine years her junior under the duet name " Ell & Nikki " . On May 10, 2011 they presented the English-language ballad Running Scared, written by Stefan Örn, Sandra Bjurman and Iain Farguhanson, in the first ESC semi-final. Four days later they won the final with 221 points.

The singer's first solo single, Crush on You , was released in December 2011 and the singer's debut album, Play With Me, in August 2012. Here she calls herself Nikki Jamal .

Camal has been married since 2005 and has two daughters (* 2006 and * 2007). She lives in the UK with her family.

Discography

Albums

• 2014: Play With Me

Singles

• 2011: Running Scared (with Eldar Gasimov)
• 2011: Crush On You
• 2012: Qal (with Miri Yusif)
• 2012: Come Into My World (with Dima Bilan)
• 2012: Play With Me
• 2012: One With The Music
• 2012: Sevdiyimə nifrət edirəm
• 2015: Broken Dreams
• 2015: Herhalde feat. Berksan

Web links

Commons : Ell & Nikki  - Collection of Images

• Website
• Peter-Philipp Schmitt: Eurovision Song Contest: Taken by Baku. In: FAZ.net . May 15, 2011, accessed May 15, 2011 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK
2. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Profile at eurovision.de (accessed on May 15, 2011).
3. ↑ cf. 3 Minutes with Nigar ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at eurovisiontalents.com (English; accessed on May 15, 2011). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Profile at eurovision.tv (English; accessed on May 15, 2011).
5. ↑ Eurovision.tv: Azerbaijan 2011 (English)
6. ↑ Nikki Jamal releases debut album at eurovisionary.com