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Artist
Eileen Khatchadourian
12+ albums
Armenianrockarmenian rocklebanesefolk-rock
about
Eileen Khatchadourian, Winner of the Best Rock Album Midan at the 10th Armenian Music Awards, Los Angeles, USA, December 13, 2009. Eileen Khatchadourian, born on 20-07-1978 in Beirut from an Armenian-Lebanese family. Grew up among the sounds of a piano, as her grandmother, father and aunt were all players, licensed from the conservatory of Rome. Which clearly justifies her love of music and classical operas as well as traditional Armenian music and songs. In 1984, at 6 years old, she was learning to play the piano and to sing along, and in 1986 at 8 years old, she started performing in schools and plays. Her curiosity and interest in other cultures’ music led her to learn African singing in the Ivory Coast where she spent months. Eileen Khatchadourian is the first Armenian-Lebanese rock singer who performs in Armenian. She started her professional public career by performing LIVE in 1996 at a 3-day concert in duet, with the Canadian singer Mario Pelchat, at the age of 18, she won the “Celine Dion” singing part out of more then 200 candidates! A year after, in 1997, she recorded her first single “Lamma”, oriental jazz, an EMC production. She was invited to sing in Armenian at the Martyr’s square during the reforms and sad events that took place in Lebanon, in April 2005, where she performed among many Lebanese well-known artists, and also at the Dubai Jazz Festival 2006. In 1999 and for almost 7 years she performed with Guy, on stage and in his CD “Xmas through the eyes
