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Place of Birth: Qamishli, Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria
About Aram Tigran
- Aram Tigran (Armenian: ???? ??????) or Aramê Dîkran (Kurdish rendering from Western Armenian), born Aram Melikyan (Armenian: ???? ????????), (1934 – 8 August 2009) was a contemporary Armenian singer who sang primarily in Kurdish.
- Among Assyrians in Qamishli he was known as Aram Dikran. Tigran was born in Qamishli in northeastern Syria to a family originally from Diyarbakir, Turkey.
- His first Oud he received from his uncle at the age of six.
- After finishing ninth grade, he concentrated his efforts on learning music and playing Oud and in 1953 he gave his first public concert at the Newroz celebrations.
- By the age of twenty years, he was singing in four languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac and Armenian.
- In 1966 he moved to Yerewan, Armenia, at the time a part of the Soviet Union, where he worked for 18 years at the Radio Yerewan.
- He left Armenia in 1995 and settled in Athens.
- He is considered among the best of contemporary Kurdish singers and musicians.
- He recorded 230 songs in Kurdish, 150 in Arabic, 10 in Syriac, 8 in Greek.Tigran died in Athens on August 8, 2009, in the Evangelismos General Hospital.
- Tigran wanted to be buried in Diyarbakir in Turkey, but the Turkish authorities refused this request.
- He was buried in Brussels instead.He was married and father of three children.
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