Armenia to farewell Flora Martirosyan Dec 11
People in Armenia will bid farewell to famous singer Flora Martirosyan between 12:00 and 14:00 local time, December 11, at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall. On the same day, the famed singer will be buried at Yerevan Pantheon, the RA Ministry of Culture reports.
The singer died in Los Angeles on Nov. 20 at the age of 55, reportedly from complications of a gallbladder surgery.
Flora Martirosyan was born in Gyumri on February 5, 1957.
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 in 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 Charity 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.
Thanks to the singer, thousands of people discovered Armenia and the Armenian people, thereby joining the right protest of a proud nation.
