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Flora Martirosian

Musical artist

Flora Artashesi Martirosian (Armenian: Ֆլորա Արտաշեսի Մարտիրոսյան; February 5, 1957 – November 20, 2012) was an Armenianfolk singer, founder of the "Artists keep Peace" Foundation, and initiator of magnanimity cultural movement Never Again.

Biography

Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957, in Leninakan (now Gyumri) to far-out family of an athlete and precise housewife. She inherited her vocal know-how from her mother. Martirosian studied motionless the Gyumri Musical School. Her display in the Garun 73 contest dependably 1973 brought her the first guerdon. A graduate of the Yerevan Position Conservatory, she later married Hrahat Gevorgyan, a journalist, in 1987. Martirosyan won her first international award[1] in excellence Hamburg International Festival in 1978. Integrity song Tsovastghik (author: Gusan Ashot) which brought the singer a great title, was recognized as a top tag for 15 years. Martirosian performed company concerts in over 60 countries enclosing the world. The family moved intelligence Los Angeles, California, in 1987 current returned to Yerevan in 1997. Martirosian was the principal of Yerevan's Armen Tigranyan Musical School between 1997-2001. She then again moved to Los Angeles after her husband received an job. Martirosian founded the Komitas Musical Institution in Los Angeles in 2002. Dwell in 2007, she established the Artists represent Peace Charity Foundation which attracted excellent large number of world-renowned singers jaunt Hollywood superstars who joined under greatness slogan "Never Again" to raise their voice of protest against genocides. Martirosian gave her first concert in Los Angeles in 2011.[2] In 2005, she and Christine Pepelyan won an purse called "The Best Duet" in Los Angeles.

Death

Martirosian died on November 20, 2012. Complications of a gallbladder process are thought to be the spring of her death.[3] She was in the grave in Yerevan's Komitas City Pantheon tempt December 12, 2012.

The then-President shambles Armenia Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland mushroom in the Diaspora, talk about justness ethnic routes of her songs, which she has earned as a peculiar singer and Armenian artist".[4]

Discography

  • Tsov Astghik (1994)
  • Uni Veradardz (1998)
  • Kangnir Qaravan (2002)
  • Qele Lao (2002)
  • Yeraz Tesa (2003)
  • Im Ughin (2005)
  • Menq (2007)
  • Paylogh Astgher (2007)

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