In the following years, Australian audiences have been able to witness the continuing rise of this unique musical treasure. ZULYA's second album, Aloukie (1999) - due to be released in Europe shortly - was awarded the World Music Album of the Year 2000 at the Australian World Music Awards and features traditional and original songs in her distinctive Tatar style. Several tracks from Aloukie have been included in various compilation albums such as American World Music label Putumayo's "Music from the Tea Lands". ZULYA's work has been repeatedly featured on national radio and television to high acclaim, and she was also awarded "Female artist of the year" at the World Music Awards for 2001.

The release of her new album, elusive, finds ZULYA at the edge of an exciting new stage in her already illustrious career. ZULYA's new totally original album is an affirmation of her unique identity, but an affirmation of the progressive type, and most definitely not of the conservative type! Her music reflects not only the cultural wealth of her background - Tatar, Russian, Australian - but also an ongoing fascination with experimenting with timbres and styles, manifested in employing of a diversity of unusual instruments and instrumentation (kora, oud, bouzouki, litungu, jaw harp, kalimba, tuba, flugel horn, saxillo, tabla, ghatam, violin, accordion, and others). In command of this formidable array of instruments are some of the best musicians in Australia: Blair Greenberg, Llew Kiek, Epizo Bangoura, Davood Tabrizi to name a few. The unorthodox and sometimes adventurous arrangments on elusive are nonetheless delicately sparse, and above all there is ZULYA's beautiful voice - pure and powerfully commanding in delivery.

ZULYA has been described as "a remarkable singer, who is not merely versatile..." by Doug Spencer of ABC Radio National. ZULYA also conducted numerous workshops in Tatar and Russian singing for festival goers and choirs so that others may experientially share her musical inheritance. She has performed with Slava Grigoryan, 'Sirocco', Kavisha Mazzella and Valanga Khoza among others. ZULYA continues to dazzle audiences with her multi-cultural proficiency and passion for music and song and during the last few years has performed at most major venues and festivals in Australia including Sydney Opera House - Festival of Asian Music and Dance, The Basement, The Boite Winter Festival, National Folk Festival (ACT), "10 Days on the Island" Arts festival, Woodford Folk Festival (Qld), 'Women in Voice" (Qld), Brunswick Music Festival (Vic), Femmes Funk 99 (New Caledonia), Brisbane Biennial Festival of Music (Qld), Apollo Bay Music Festival (Vic), Fairbridge Festival (WA), Songs of the Wind Festival (NSW), Kulcha (WA), Musician in Residence Program, Aboriginal communities (N.T) and many others.