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Iveta Mukuchyan
Armenian singer, songwriter, model and actress from the Armenian diaspora. She will represent Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song “LoveWave”.
Iveta Mukuchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1986 . When she was five years old, her family moved to Germany where she was educated, she specialised as a linguist. She returned to Armenia in 2009 and started studying jazz-vocal at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. It was there that she realised that music is her greatest passion.
In 2010, Mukuchyan received the Discovery of the Year award at the Armenia Awards, which was held in Moscow, Russia. In 2012 Iveta participated on the second season of The Voice of Germany song contest. Mukuchyan was the winning contestant with the song "Many Rivers to Cross". In December 2012, El Style named her “Sexiest Armenian” and featured her on the magazine’s cover.
Iveta Mukuchyan was chosen for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The decision made by the Public Television Company of Armenia was announced in October last year. After that an open call for submissions was launched to find the best possible song for Stockholm, and in the end, LoveWave was chosen, with music written by Lilith Navasardyan and Levon Navasardyan, and lyrics by Iveta Mukuchyan herself and Stephanie Crutchfield.
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TheArmenians of Simpsons
The Simpons is a award winning American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition.
The Simpsons has been running for 27 years and features a small number of unexpected Armenian characters.
Seymour Skinner, formerly known as Armen Tamzarian, is the principal of Springfield Elementary School, and a stereotypical educational bureaucrat. Seymour is ethnically Armenian, the name “Armen Tamzarian” would suggest he is from Eastern Armenian heritage. In the episode “The Principal and the Pauper”, it was revealed that Skinner is actually Armen Tamzarian. Tamzarian was a troubled orphan until he joined the Army and was befriended by Sgt. Skinner, whom he came to idolize. Believing himself responsible for the real Skinner being killed, he returned to Springfield to tell Skinner’s mother, but she mistook him for Seymour, and he followed the true Skinner’s dream of becoming a school principal.
Moe Szyslak also known as Moe the Bartender, is the owner and bartender of “Moe’s Tavern”, a Springfield bar frequented by Homer and his friends. Moe is portrayed as often irritable and rude to all except his bar friends Homer, Lenny, and Carl, whom he sometimes treats as respected customers. His easy-to-lose harsh temper usually turns down women and finding a girlfriend for Moe has therefore been a running joke. In the episode entitled “Lisa Goes Gaga,” Moe said that he was “Half monster, half Armenian." Moe had previously hinted at being Armenian in "Judge Me Tender” (2010), claiming that ArmenianIdol is his favorite show.
Dr. Egoyan is an Armenian American doctor who works at a Euthanasia Clinic. He kills off people by connecting them to a diePod (a big iPod), then asking them how they want to be killed (Instant Death/Slow Painful Death/Megadeath) He may be based on real Armenian American doctor Jack Kevorkian, who also helped assist people wishing to undergo suicide.
Chuck Garabedian once held a Mega-Savings Seminar inSpringfield that the Simpsons attended. Chuck promotes extreme frugality, going so far as to steal the Simpsons’ uneaten plankton from their trash. He has a West Armenian last name and is listed as an “Armenian Characters” by the Simpsons Wikia.
Armenians form a unique part of American history, the show has been running for 27 years and there are of course a lot other Armenian references, but these are the most notable characters. All of them are confirmed Armenian by the Simpsons Wikia.
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Armenia, Armenians and our Armenian brothers and sisters in Artsakh, although headed into a brighter future are constantly reminded of the bleak and dark past. Sometimes the present seems to resemble the past all too well. One thing that is most certainly the same is the fire in the people of Artsakh that burns for freedom. And that will never change, or be broken.
Photographs by Giorgi Tsagareli of Armenians in Artsakh(Nagorno-Karabakh)
1.Protest meeting, with local police on the Armenian citizens’ side, Stepanakert, 1989.
2. Armenian school, set-up by an Armenian couple from Lebanon – Shusha, 1994.
3.Funeral of an Armenian soldier – Stepanakert, 1994.
4.Boy with a toy gun in a ruined building – Stepanakert, 1994.
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Nahapet Kuchak
Armenian medieval poet. One of the first bards of the Caucasus. Kuchak is one of the brightest figures in the medieval Armenian lyrical poetry
A memorial manuscript tells us that Nahapet Kuchak was born in the Kharakonis village near the city of Van. He later married a women named Tangiatun. The poet lived his entire life near the Lake Van area until his death in 1592. Kuchak was buried in the cemetery of Kharakonis St. Theodoros Church and his grave became pilgrimage site.
Kuchak wrote airens (հայրեն) Armenian writing style of songs consisting of quatrains in which each line has fifteen syllables and is divided by a caesura into seven and eight syllables. He brought this ancient form of Armenian verse to its pinnacle. Most of his airens are concerned with love—earthly and free from any dogmas. But the poet saw the people’s suffering and social inequality, grieved for the Armenian exiles (the “airens of wandering”), and philosophically considered the events and fates of men (the “airens of meditation”). Democratic and humanistic in its essence, antifeudal in its orientation, the poetry of Kuchak was a challenge to medieval dogmatism. By later poets, the hayrens of Kuchak have been praised as works of true lyricism and great individual creativity.
“My soul left my body,
I sat down to lament:
‘My soul, if you leave me
my life is spent!’
And my soul replied:
‘Where is your wisdom, pray?
When a house is collapsing
why should its master stay?’
Some of his work can be heard beautifully sung by Lilit Danelian. The album is a collection of musical pieces inspired by Nahapet Kuchak’s Hayrens.
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The month of March has begun and with it marks the end of winter. Life will yet again prevail and find a way. Let us celebrate this years winter in Armenia with beautiful photography by the amazing Suren Manvelyan and with the poem ‘The Snow’ by the great Paruyr Sevak.
I love the snow,
when it falls down from the invisible sky
down to the sidewalks.
And swiftly, slowly there you go to wander.
Without knowing yourself, you go on to dream.
That, in life, is noble and flawless.
Սիրում եմ ես ձյունը,
Երբ որ նա իջնում է
Անտես երկինքներից այս մայթերին,
Եվ մեծաքա՜յլ , դանդա՜ղ դու շրջում ես,
Ինքդ էլ չիմանալով անրջում ես Այն,
ինչ կյանքում վեհ է և անթերի:
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Armeniangirl in traditional clothes,
(1900 hundreds) Galata, Constantinople, Tchobanian brothers atelier.
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