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Artist
Emmy Bejanyan
12+ albums
armenia
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Emmy (born Emma Bejanyan (Armenian: Էմմա Բեջանյան), on 12 April 1984 in Yerevan, Armenia), is an Armenian singer who will represent Armenia at Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Emmy is considered to be one of Armenia's most popular and influential singers, being labelled as a "pop princess" and "Armenian pop icon". Emmy also runs Emmy-B Production Center, a music-production company searching for new young talents in Armenia. Emmy grew up in an artistic family. Her mother, Nadezhda Sargsyan, is a singer and music producer; her father, Davit Bejanyan, is a sculptor and jazz pianist. As a child, she often secretly "borrowed" her mother's stage costumes, gathered the children of her building around her, and sang for them, mimicking the styles of her mother and her mother's costars in the Konstantin Orbelian Band. In her teenage years, when Emmy knew she wanted to pursue a career as a singer, she received tremendous encouragement from her parents, though at first her mother was wary of her daughter's aspirations, having had first-hand experience of the pitfalls of the music business. Emmy attended the Sayat Nova Music School and subsequently studied at the Komitas State Conservatory, both in Yerevan. In addition, she received advanced vocal training at the Emmy-B Producton Center, a music-production company run by her mother. Emmy's career took off immediately after she recorded her first song, "Hayastan," and released its video, in 1993. While she earned
