Javanshir Guliyev was born on November 22, 1950 in Sheki. He graduated from the high School In 1967, the Sheki Music School in 1968. In the same year he entered the Tar-Department of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Faculty of Folk Instruments. Two years later he entered in the composer's faculty of the Conservatory, and in 1975 graduated from the class of an outstanding composer, Professor Kovdat Hajiyev.
Javanshir Guliyev is the author of the first military march of modern Azerbaijan.
Since 1973, he worked as an auditor in the Azerbaijan State Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting, he worked for 17 years in this position. Associate professor of the Azerbaijan National Conservatory since 2003, Professor since 2005, and since 2005 - Professor of the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Middle East University of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.