Valya Samvelyan ( hy, Վալյա Սամվելյան; born 12 August 1937 – died 3 December 1990) was an

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singer.

Career

She initially started her artistic career practicing Soviet ''samodeyatelnost'' (amateur song), but afterwards won a competition held by the Yerevan Radio and became a soloist of the Ensemble of Folk Instruments of Public Radio of Armenia. Some of the most popular songs in her interpretation were "Anushik im quyrik", "Antsar aygus nayelov", "Zov gisher", and "Shorora" by

Sayat-Nova Sayat-Nova (Armenian: Սայեաթ-Նովայ ( сlassical), Սայաթ-Նովա (reformed); ka, საიათნოვა; ; ; born Harutyun Sayatyan; 14 June 1712 – 22 September 1795) was an Armenian poet, musician and ''ashugh'', who ...

, gusan

Sheram Sheram (born Grigor Talian, 20 March 1857, Alexandropol – died 7 March 1938, Yerevan) was an Armenian composer, poet-musician ('' gusan''), and folk musician ('' ashug''). He is known as the founder of the modern gusan (Armenian popular compos ...

, Alexey Ekimyan, and others. She died in a car accident in 1990. Her son

Ara Gevorgyan Ara Gevorgyan ( hy, Արա Գևորգյան, born April 19, 1960) is an Armenian musician, composer and musical producer. In 2004 he was awarded the '' Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia'' title by the President Robert Kocharyan. Biogra ...

is the producer of her posthumous "Toghetsir indz menak" ("You left me alone") and "Anushik im quyrik" ("My sweet sister") albums.Khor Virab Armenian CD
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Valya Samvelyan
1990 deaths 1937 births 20th-century Armenian women singers {{Armenia-singer-stub