22/05/2024
🥳 Happy 100th birthday to a legendary French-Armenian singer, lyricist, actor, and diplomat Charles Aznavour!
🎤 In a career as a composer, singer, and songwriter, spanning over 70 years, he recorded more than 1,200 songs interpreted in 9 languages. Moreover, he wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs for himself and others. Aznavour sold between 180 and 200 million records during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time 🤩
🇦🇲 He was arguably the most famous Armenian of his time. Since the 1988 Armenian earthquake, Aznavour helped the country through his charity, Aznavour for Armenia. Together with his brother-in-law and co-author Georges Garvarentz he wrote the song "Pour toi Arménie", which was performed by a group of famous French artists and topped the charts for eighteen weeks.
🧡 There is a square named after him in central Yerevan on Abovian Street, and a statue erected in Gyumri, which saw the most lives lost in the earthquake.
In 2004, Aznavour received the title of National Hero of Armenia, Armenia's highest award 🏆
🎼 He wrote a song about the Armenian Genocide, entitled "Ils sont tombés" (known in English as "They fell").
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