Armenian pop singer Sirusho is going to represent Armenia during Eurovision-2008 international song contest. The contest will take place in Serbian Belgrade next year.Let's hope the public is able to pick a song that doesn't automatically guarantee failure, like last year's. Unfortunately, it is not yet known whether innocent bystanders will be beat, stabbed, or shot, but keep checking back.
According to new rules of Eurovision, the song that will be performed during the contest must be decided in a public vote.
Hayko is one of the best known male artists in Armenia, and now has the honour of representing his country for only their second ever participation at the Eurovision Song Contest.By the way, Armenia's first competitor was last year's Andre, who did very well and made it to the finals.
Musician Manouk Haroutyunyan has always dreamed of a musical instrument that will be unique and unmatched on the universal level and won’t resemble any European violins and kamanchas. He has carried out researches on national musical instruments, made an instrument of five wires, maple and pear tree woods and called it jut. The latter, in fact, is one of the most ancient Armenian instruments.Don't you just love that anecdote?
"There were moments when I was on the verge of giving up; I decided to sell my collection and buy a flat for my son, but later I changed my mind as the aim of my life is not the purchase of an apartment", he says.
"Once I found the door of my workshop unlocked; someone had broken into my little world and taken the food and trifles; the burglar understood nothing of real works of art", tells the musician.
Once the separate singers and university mates, now a family and a rock duo “Vo.X” Aram and Gaya Rian believe that they will manage to shape a new music style in Armenia . The performers of a Britpop genre, the musicians lived in Great Britain for six years and returned last year with two albums and the true intention to conquer the Yerevan music lovers.Armenia Blog would love to review their CD. Don't hesistate, send it over to us!
“The music of Vo.X (‘voice’ in Latin) is brand new for Armenia, it is popular in the west, but there are no such performers in Yerevan,” says Aram Rian. “We are sure our music will find its niche in Armenia.”
The music of Beatles-like “Vo.X” had already gained success in Great Britain and it twice became the nominees of the British Gospel Music Award as the best British group in “gospel” genre. The songs “No matter” and “Gone with the wind” were broadcast by radio channels throughout Britain and the duo was hosted many times by the BBC channel.
