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Many Middle Eastern troubadours of the first 20th hundred years were named following the instruments they played, and among the best-known and celebrated, Oudi Hrant, got his name in the stringed instrument called the oud. Hailing from Istanbul, Turkey, Hrant set up a massive pursuing world-wide with Armenians, as well …

Lusine Zakarian (also credited while Lucineh Zakaryan) was a vocalist from Soviet Georgia. Of Armenian descent, she was created Svetlana Zakaryan in 1937, in Akhaltsikhe, and elevated in the southern portion of Soviet Georgia. The family members relocated to Yerevan when she is at her teenagers, and she later on …

Kanun participant Ara Topouzian has led many recordings of traditional Armenian music for his label, American Saving Productions, which targets Armenian and Middle Eastern music. Given birth to in Detroit, MI, Topouzian ultimately resided in Atlantic Town, where he performed the cornet while in college as well as the def …

Armenian guitarist/vocalist Gor Mkhitarian got his initial guitar at age 15, although he didn’t take it seriously until he transformed 21. Delivered in 1973 in the town of Vanazor, Mkhitarian was raised listening to just as much Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel as he do regional heroes like Rouben …

The acknowledged master from the Armenian reed instrument referred to as the duduk, Djivan Gasparayan was created just beyond the country’s capital city of Yerevan, first picking right up the instrument at age six. After signing up for the Tatool Altounian Country wide Tune and Dance Outfit in 1948, his …