Shoista Mullodzhanova Day
Shoista Mullojonova (Tajik: Шоиста Муллоҷонова, Persian: شایسته ملاجانآوا, Russian: Шоиста Рубиновна Муллоджанова; September 3, 1925 – June 26, 2010), born Shushana Rubinovna Mullodzhanova, was a renowned Tajik-born Bukharian Jewish Shashmakom singer. She was born in Dushanbe, Tajik ASSR to a religious Bukharian Jewish family. Her mother, Sivyo Davydova, was from Samarkand and her father, Rubin Mullodzhanov, originally came from Bukhara. Her family traces its ancestry to an artistocratic Levite tribe that has been into performing and entertaining since the time of the First and Second Temple in Jerusalem. At some point as an adult, she changed her surname from Mullodzhanova to Mullojonova in Soviet Tajikistan.