Today Flora Martirosyan would turn 56

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 5, ARMENPRESS. Today, on February 5, prominent and talented singer Flora Martirosyan would turn 56. Notwithstanding the beloved singes is not with us anymore, but the public keeps still admiring her songs.

Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957 in Gyumri to a family of an athlete and a housewife. She inherited her vocal skills from her mother. Martirosian studied at the Gyumri Musical School. Her participation in the Garun 73 contest in 1973 brought her the first prize. A graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory, she later married Hrahat Gevorgyan, a journalist, in 1987. The family moved to Los Angeles, US, in 1987 and returned to Yerevan in 1997. Martirosian was the principal of Yerevan's Armen Tigranyan Musical School between 1997-2001. Martirosian founded the Komitas Musical Academy in Los Angeles in 2002.

People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia Flora Martirosyan was the founder of the International Musical School after Komitas, "Artists for Peace" Charity Organization and the initiator of the cultural movement "Never Again".

The singer passed away on November 20, 2012. Complications of a gallbladder surgery are thought to be the cause of her decease. The singer was buried in Yerevan's Komitas City Pantheon on December 12, 2012.