Roksana Rubenovna Babajan ( hy, Ռոքսանա Ռուբենի Բաբայան, russian: Рокса́на Рубе́новна Бабая́н; born 30 May 1946,

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) is a Soviet and Russian pop singer and actress.

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Biography

Roksana Babajan was born on 30 May 1946 in Tashkent in the family of engineer Ruben Mikhailovich Mukurdumov and singer and pianist Seda Grigorievna Babajan. In 1970 she graduated from the

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, Faculty of Industrial and Civil Engineering (ASG). Studying at the institute, she participated in amateur performances, taking prizes at singing competitions. In the year graduating from the university, the head of the State Variety Orchestra of Armenia, People's Artist of the USSR

Konstantin Orbelyan Konstantin Aghaparonovich Orbelyan ( hy, Կոնստանտին Օրբելյան; russian: Константин Агапаронович Орбелян; July 29, 1928 – April 24, 2014) was an Armenian pianist, composer, head of the State Estrada Or ...

invited Roksana to her orchestra, to Yerevan, where she later became a professional singer. Since 1973 (according to other sources since 1975) Roxana becomes a soloist of the VIA Blue Guitars. The turning point in the career was the participation in the International Festival of Internationales Schlagerfestival Dresden on 16–19 September 1976 in the GDR. Despite the very strong composition of the contestants and the constant sympathy of the German jury to their performers from the GDR (in 9 of the 17 festivals they were the winnersуМеждународный фестиваль шлягеров «Дрезден»
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. A new period of popularity came from the late 1980s, when Babayan annually appeared in the finals of the festival

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from 1988 to 1996. The widow of People's Artist of the RSFSR

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(1936–2018), with whom he was married since 1980. Member of the Russian political party

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Discography

* 2014 — ''Formula of Happiness'' (CD) * 1996 — ''Enchantment Witchcraft'' (CD) * 1991 — ''Another Woman'' (Vinyl) * 1984 — ''When We Are Together'' (Vinyl)Роксана Бабаян = Roxana Babajan — Когда ты со мной... = When We Are Together... (1984, Vinyl) , Discogs
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Babajan, Roksana Living people 1946 births Musicians from Tashkent Soviet women singers Soviet actresses Russian actresses Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of Russia Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni United Russia politicians Russian people of Armenian descent Uzbekistani people of Armenian descent 20th-century Russian women singers Animal welfare workers