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Ilyas Malayev, Uzbek Musician and Poet

May 14, 2008

Ilyas Malayev, a musician and poet renowned in Uzbekistan and transplanted to Queens, where he was a legend among fellow Bukharan Jews, died on Friday May 2, 2008 in Flushing. He was 72 and lived in Forest Hills. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Lana Levitin, his manager. Before emigrating from his native land in Central ...