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After 16 fantastic performances from young artists here in Armenia, 13-year old Lissandro from France was crowned the winner of Junior Eurovision 2022 in a live broadcast from the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan on Sunday. Lissandro’s song Oh, Maman! earned a grand total of 203 points, which was enough ...

Robin the Robot will join Iveta Mukuchyan, Garik Papoyan and Karina Ignatyan on Friday 11 December as the 4th host of this year’s Junior Eurovision in Yerevan, the official website of the Eurovision Song Contest revealed. For the first time in Junior Eurovision history, the contest will be hosted by an AI (artificial intellige...

The Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory on Wednesday hosted the awards ceremony of the Golden Seeds Scholarship of Appreciation and Respect honoring famous Armenian-Lebanese opera singer Kevork Hadjian, who was killed on the Artsakh frontline during the 2020 war. The Golden Seeds Scholarship has been launched by the Armenian ...

Armenian broadcaster AMPTV has announced that Iveta Mukuchyan, Garik Papoyan, and Karina Ignatyan will host the 20th Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan next month. Eagle-eyed Eurovision fans will recognise Iveta from the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Armenia with her electro-pop classic LoveWave. ...

After more than 217 million streams on Spotify and charting in more than 30 countries, Rosa Linn, the Armenian representative at Eurovision 2022, released a “reimagined” video clip for SNAP. Rosa will also be one of the opening acts for Ed Sheeran during his North America tour, Eurovisionfun reports. ...

Netflix has dropped an official trailer for the French mini-series Notre-Dame which tells the story of the devastating cathedral fire in 2019. The series will be released on Netflix on October 19, 2022. The drama is directed by Hervé Hadmar with a screenplay he penned alongside Olivier Bocquet. The film stars French-Armenian...

Istanbul-Armenian singer Sibil Pektorosoglu, who is regularly visiting Armenia with new clips, sometimes concerts, duets with local artists and other initiatives, is in Yerevan again. Today, on September 9, the singer released her new video clip based on the song “Song is my wings”. Sibil says her goal is to spread the Armenian...

The Tavush Diocese Children and Youth Choir shared the stage with world-renowned artists at a concert on the sidelines of the STARMUS VI festival in Yerevan on Wednesday. The Another World concert featured legendary Queen guitarist Brian May, System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian, Graham Gouldman, Derek Sherinian, Simon Ph...

Netflix's upcoming vampire action comedy film Day Shift, starring Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, and Snoop Dogg, features Armenian vampire hunter characters, the Armenian Film Society reports. The film centers on a blue-collar father who provides for his family as a San Fernando Valley pool cleaner, which is secretly a front for a u...

The Artists' Union of Armenia is preparing to mark its 90th anniversary this year. In an interview with Panorama.am, the chairman of the union, Suren Safaryan, said that the jubilee celebrations would take place in autumn. "We have two salons a year: the Spring Salon and the Autumn Salon. The latter will mark the 90th annivers...