Aslîka Qadir was a female dengbej singing Kurdish songs at Radio Yerevan. Born in 1945 in Alagyaz, Armenia, into a Yazidi family, she had a strong voice and composed dozens of Kurdish songs despite social pressures and political pressures and bans at that period.

She studied at the University of Yerevan, where she became part of a community of intellectuals. After her graduation, she taught Armenian language and literature at preparatory schools in Yerevan. In addition to Kurdish, she knew Russian, Armenian, Farsi, Dari, and German and she was an expert in Farsi language and literature.

During the 1960s, she worked at Radio Yerevan and where her songs made her known as “the voice of Radio Yerevan.”

She was elected to the Armenian Parliament from the Congress of the Communist Party of Armenia. After two years, the parliament was dissolved in 1990. After the Soviet Union collapsed, she left Armenia for Europe.

Her best song “Welatê me Kurdistan (English: Our country is Kurdistan)” is still popular among Kurds.