Albert Simonyan ( hy, Ալբերտ Սիմոնյան; born December 5, 1962), better known as his stage name Tata is an Armenian singer-songwriter widely known among the

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. Simonyan received the title of the

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in 2006, and was nominated for "King of Pop" in

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in 2008. To date, Tata has put on performances to audiences in the

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. Tata has also played in several films. Currently, Tata is residing in

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Biography

Tata was born in 1962 in

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, the capital of

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. In 1977, he graduated from Yerevan V. Terian Secondary School N 60. During the school years, he studied in the

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department of the music school. Tata started his career in 1980 with the "Cilicia" ensemble. In 1991 he recorded his first album, ''Yerekon Idjav''. He participated in the "Yerevan-Moscow Transit" project, where he performed with the Russian bands "Otpetie Moshenniki" and "

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". In 2006 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia. In 2008 his "Tata" production center together with

Armenia TV Armenia TV ( hy, Արմենիա հեռուստաընկերություն, Armenia herustaënkerut'yun), is one of the leading TV channels in Armenia. In 2012, Armenia TV became the first TV channel in Armenia to launch 1080p, Full HD broadcasti ...

company implemented the "National Star" project, the artistic director of which was Tata Simonyan. He has released eight albums for which he wrote the music and lyrics. Tata recorded duets with

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, Anatoly Dneprov,

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, and

Eva Rivas Valeria Alexandrovna Reshetnikova-Tsatouryan ( hy, Վալերիա Ռուստետնիկովա-Ծատուրյան, russian: Валерия Александровна Решетникова-Цатурян; born 13 July 1987), better known by her stag ...

.Biography, Radio Chanson (in Russian)
/ref> From November 2012 to April 2013, he was the coach of the Voice of Armenia project.

Discography

Studio albums

*Yerekon Idjav (1991) *Tata & Asbarez (1997) *Te ach, te dzakh (1998) *Ov e na (1999) *Shaba-daba-dash (2001) *Andzrev e yekel (2003) *Tevavor qaminer (2006) *Amenalave du es (2009)

Live albums

*The Best of Tata: Live in Concert (1999) *10 Tari Anc (2008) *Tata Simonyan’s Star Friends (2009) *Live Concert in Moscow (2014)

Filmography

*1996 - Our Yard *1998 - Our Yard 2 *2006 - Our Yard 3 *2009 - Star of Love

Awards and achievements

Here is chronologically the awards Simonyan has received so far.

References

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