Farida Yagudovna Kudasheva is a pop singer.

Years of life: 15.12.1920 – 9.10.2010.

She was born in the village of Maloe Klyashevo of Ufa district (nowadays the village of Akmanai Chishminsky region RB)

Merits:

People’s artist BASSR (1968) and the republic of Tatarstan (1990), Honoured artist RSFSR (1972) and BASSR (1956), Honorary citizen of Ufa (1995), laureate of the Gabdulla Tukai State Premium of the Republic of Tatarstan (1995).

She was rewarded with the Order of People’s Friendship (1991), medal.

She graduated from the theatre department of the Ufa theatre arts school (1939). She was worked at the Dyurtyuli kolkhoz-sovkhoz theatre (1939-1941). Farida Kudasheva was a soloist of the Bashkir Radio committee (1948-1956), the Bashkir State Philharmonic Society (1941-1944 and since 1956). The flowering of performing concert art in Bashkortostan is connected with her creative work. She possessed a mellow timbre and sang Bashkir and Tatar folk songs with sincerity. She toured successfully in Finland.