Early Life
Vigen was born into a relatively poor family of eight children in the western Iranian city of Hamadan. His father died when Vigen was only seven years old and he was raised by his older brother, Karo Derderian, who was a poet and wrote the lyrics for Vigen's signature song, "Lala'ee" (Lullaby). During World War II, the family moved to the northern city of Tabriz—then under Soviet occupation—where Vigen bought his first guitar from a Russian soldier and discovered his affinity for Italian and Spanish music and adopted many of those melodies for his songs with Persian lyrics that became some of Iran's best music to date.
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