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Flora Martirosian’s farewell and burial ceremonies to be held on December 11

Flora Martirosian’s farewell and burial ceremonies to be held on December 11

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: The farewell ceremony of the renowned and beloved Armenian singer Flora Martirosian will take place on December 11 at 12:00-14:00 in Aram Khachaturian concert hall. The burial ceremony will take place the same day in Yerevan Pantheon. Armenpress was informed from the public relations department of Armenian Ministry of Culture.

Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957 in Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenian SSR, Soviet Union to a family of an athlete and a housewife. She inherited her vocal skills from her mother. Martirosian studied at the Gyumri Musial 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. She then again moved to Los Angeles after her husband got an appointment. Martirosian founded the Komitas Musical Academy in Los Angeles in 2002. In 2008, she established the Artists for Peace Chartity Foundation which attracted a large number of world-renowned singers and Hollywood superstars who joined under the slogan "Never Again" to raise their voice of protest against genocides. Martirosian gave her first concert in Los Angeles in 2011.

The singer passed away on November 20, 2012. Complications of a gallbladder surgery are thought to be the cause of her decease.

President Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland and in the Diaspora, talk about the ethnic routes of her songs, which she has earned as a distinctive singer and Armenian artist".




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