Karen Kavaleryan ( hy, Կարեն Կավալերյան; russian: Каре́н Кавалеря́н; born June 5, 1961 in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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, Soviet Union) is a Russian-Armenian lyricist. He currently holds the record (with Sharon Vaughn and Ralph Siegel) for representing the most countries in the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...

with five. The countries are Russia in 2002 and 2006, Belarus in 2007, Armenia in 2007 and 2010, Ukraine in 2008 and 2013 and Georgia in 2008. Karen Kavaleryan is widely considered as the most successful Russian lyricist, he is 27 times finalist of "Song of the Year" gala, author of anthem of

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympi ...

and the final song 2014 Winter Paralympics, performed by José Carreras and Diana Gurtskaya, during his career has published more than 700 songs performed by Gorky Park (band), Gorky Park, Bravo (band), Bravo, Prime Minister (band), Prime-Minister, Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Nikolay Baskov, Valeriya, Dima Bilan and many others. Artyom Kavaleryan, son of Karen Kavaleryan, is the lyricist of the Russian entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 "Doroga k solntsu" performed by Vlad Krutskikh.

Eurovision Song Contest entries

†1 Lyrics co-written with Evgene Fridlyand & Irina Antonyan
†2 Lyrics co-written with Irina Antonyan
†3 Lyrics co-written with Hayko (Armenian part)

National Finals entries

*2005 Russia Alexandr Panaiotov & Alexey Chumakov, Balalayka and Russian version Balalayka *2005 Russia A-Sortie, Keep On Shinin' and Russian version Sharik *2006 Russia Dima Bilan, Lady Flame *2006 Russia Jasmin, Foreigner *2007 Belarus Diana Gurtskaya, How Long *2008 Russia Alexandr Panaiotov, Crescent & Cross *2008 Russia Anatoliy Alyoshin, One More Try *2012 Russia Mark Tishman, Money vs Love

External links

*http://www.karen-kavaleryan.ru/ 1961 births Living people Musicians from Moscow Russian lyricists Russian people of Armenian descent Ethnic Armenian musicians {{Russia-musician-stub