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Harout Pamboukjian (Armenian: Հարութ Փամբուկչյան), (born on 1950 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union), is an Armenian American pop singer living in Los Angeles. His Armenian dance, folk and revolutionary songs make him a favorite among Armenians. In his early teens, he took up lessons for many musical instruments including the guitar, the bouzouki and saz (stringed instruments), the dhol (drums) and the piano, later forming a band called Erebouni. His interest towards music was because his mother was a singer. “My mother had a beautiful voice, and I heard all those old folk songs in my house at an early age. ” His band went from village to village playing everything from Charles Aznavour to Deep Purple and Elvis, at weddings and universities. Due to restrictions under the Soviet Union, Harout and most of his family left Soviet Armenia in 1975. After a year in Lebanon, he went to Los Angeles and took up residence in Hollywood. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, there were only a few thousand Armenians in L.A., most of whom were centered in East Hollywood. There were two local cable programs on the weekend that featured news and music, and nearly all the businesses — Parseghian Records, Arka Photo, Panos Pastry, Carousel, King Arshag, etc. — were on Hollywood or Santa Monica boulevards, but he truly got his start at a popular night club in Pasadena called Sayat Nova. Only two months after his arrival in L.A., Harout put together a studio band and recorded his first album, "Ou

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