Aram Tigran

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Monument to Aram Tigran in Silvan

Aram Tigran ( Armenian Արամ Տիգրան , Kurdish ARAME Dikran * 15. January 1934 as Aram Melikian in Qamishli , Syria , † 8. August 2009 in Athens ) was an Armenian singer.

origin

His father came from the area around Diyarbakır and was one of the survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915. As the only survivor of his family, he fled with a group of Armenians to Qamishli in northeast Syria at the age of twelve. A Kurdish couple who could not have children took him in and raised him. At the age of 29 he married a Kurd.

Life

Tigran was interested in music at the age of nine and learned the kink-neck lute oud . At the age of 20 he sang Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic and Arabic songs. In 1966 he went to Yerevan and worked there for 18 years in the radio. Radio Yerevan broadcast Kurdish programs that could also be received in eastern Turkey. Since the 1990s he lived in Belgium and Greece .

His repertoire comprised 230 Kurdish, 150 Arabic, ten Aramaic, eight Greek and seven Zazaic songs, and he published numerous music albums.

Tigran traveled to Diyarbakır in 2009 to take part in the Newroz celebrations, but fell ill there. In August 2009 he was hospitalized in Athens. He died on August 8th. His wish to bury him in Diyarbakır was not granted by the Turkish government, so he was buried in Brussels .

Aram Tigran was married and had two children.

Albums

  1. Çîyayê Gebarê
  2. Zîlan
  3. Serxwebûn Xweş E
  4. Kurdistan
  5. Xwezî Dîsa Tsar Bûma
  6. Rabin
  7. Evîna Feqiyê Teyran
  8. Keçê Dinê
  9. Ey Welato Em Heliyan
  10. Ay Dilberê
  11. Dayê Min Berde
  12. Diyarbekira Şêrîn
  13. Ay Dil
  14. Em hatin
  15. Heval Ferat

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Aram Tigran. ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Kurdish). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ezdixan.com
  2. ↑ Kürt müziğinin duayen ismi Aram Tigran öldü . In: Radikal , August 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Tigran, Aram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Տիգրան, Արամ (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Qamishli , Syria
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2009
Place of death Athens