"Zara" (Zarif) Pashaevna Mgoyan (Russian: Зара (Зарифа) Пашаевна Мгоян) was born on July 26, 1983, in Leningrad, USSR. Zara is a Russian pop singer and actress, Zara is from Armenia, though it is an ethnic Kurd. Until 2004, professed Yezidism, then adopted Christianity.