Aram Tigran
Aram Tigran also Aram Melikian ( born January 15, 1934 in Qamishli, Syria; † August 8, 2009 in Athens ) was an Armenian singer.
Origin
His father came from the region around Diyarbakır, and was one of the survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915. Was the only survivor of his family, he fled the age of twelve with a group of Armenians by Qamishli in northeastern Syria. A Kurdish couple who could not have children, took him in and raised him. At 29, he married a Kurdish woman.
Life
Even with nine years Tigran was interested in music and learned the lute oud. At 20 he sang Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic and Arabic songs. In 1966 he went to Yerevan, where he worked 18 years in broadcasting. Radio Yerevan broadcast Kurdish programs that could be received in eastern Turkey. Since the 1990s, he lived in Belgium and Greece.
His repertoire included 230 Kurdish, 150 Arabic, Aramaic 10, 8 and 7 zazaische Greek songs, he has published numerous music albums.
Tigran traveled to Diyarbakir in 2009, to take part in the Newroz celebrations, fell ill there, however. In August 2009 he was admitted to a hospital in Athens. On August 8, he died. His desire to bury him in Diyarbakir, was not granted to him by the Turkish government, so that he was buried in Brussels.
Aram Tigran was married and the father of two children.