Hovhannes Badalyan
Hovhannes Badalyan | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Hovhannes Hambardzumi Badalyan |
Born | village of Shavarin, near Hamadan, Iran | December 15, 1924
Origin | Armenian |
Died | August 19, 2001 Yerevan | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | singer |
Instruments | tenor vocal |
Hovhannes Hambardzumi Badalyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Համբարձումի Բադալյան, December 15, 1924, village of Shavarin, near Hamadan, Iran – August 19, 2001, Yerevan, Armenia) was an Armenian singer (tenor), People's Artist of Armenia (1961) and Professor of Yerevan State Conservatory.[1]
Biography[]
Badalyan's parents were from the Armenian village of Gardabad near the city of Urmia, and they became refugees when the Turkish army invaded northwestern Iran. Hovhannes attended the local Armenian school in Baghdad, and in 1936 he returned to Iran where he started singing in Nicol Galanderian’s choir. In Tehran, he studied and performed with Hambartzoom Grigorian and Karl Kulger. At the age of 22, Badalian left for Armenia, where he attended the Romanos Melikian Music College. In 1948, he joined the Folk Music Instruments Ensemble of the Armenian Radio as a soloist.[2] In 2001, his achievements were recognized with the Movses Khorenatsi Medal. Badalyan performed on many world stages from the Middle East to Europe, Australia, Canada, US and Soviet Union.[3]
Selected discography[]
- Golden Classics - Legendary Armenians - Hovhannes Badalyan
References[]
- ^ (2005, in Armenian) Who's Who: Armenians, vol. 1. Yerevan, p. 189.
- ^ Following in Hovhannes Badalyan’s footsteps
- ^ "Biography". Archived from the original on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
External links[]
- 1924 births
- 2001 deaths
- Iranian people of Armenian descent
- Armenian male singers
- Iranian male singers
- People from Hamadan
- Iranian emigrants to the Soviet Union
- 20th-century Armenian singers
- 20th-century male singers
- Iranian expatriates in Iraq