Shamshi Kaldayakov (Шәмші Қалдаяқов) was a Kazakh composer. He was born on August 15 1930 and died February 29, 1992 in Almaty. In 1956, he composed the music to the patriotic song My Kazakhstan. It was adopted in 2006 to be the Kazakhstan national anthem by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after a few modifications in the lyrics.