#iveta mukuchyan

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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.