Zarifa Pashaevna Mgoyan, known as Zara, is a Russian pop singer and actress.
Zara is from Armenia and is of ethnic Kurdish background. Until 2004, she professed Yezidism, but has since converted to Russian Orthodoxy.
Zara Mgoyan married Sergey Vladimirovich Matviyenko on April 30, 2004; they divorced one year later. Sergey Matviyenko is the son of Valentina Matviyenko, Russia's most powerful female politician.
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