Music of Armenia

Music Of Armenia

The music of Armenia has its origins in Anatolia and the Caucasus Mountains, where people traditionally sang popular folk songs, usually sang by Ashugs, the most famous one probably being Sayat Nova. Armenia has a long musical tradition, and its music has been represented in recent times by artists such as Djivan Gasparyan, a world-wide renowned Duduk player, and Armenian pop singers such as Sirusho, Andre and Harout Pamboukjian, a Los Angeles-based pop singer who is famous mainly in Armenia and the United States and is also acclaimed in Lebanon, Syria and countries with an Armenian-speaking minority. Armenia is also renowned for its Classical music tradition, with composers of the level of Aram Khachaturian, Arno Babadjanian and Edvard Baghdasaryan.

There is also a big following of genres such as Chanson music, with people like Ruben Hakhverdyan and Charles Aznavour (from France) and genres such as Light Pop and Pop-Folk music, with artists such as Aram Asatryan, Tata Simonyan, Tatoul Avoyan and many others.