Arsen Hovsepi Grigoryan (

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: Արսեն Հովսեփի Գրիգորյան; born 7 December 1968), is a Syrian-born Armenian traditional songs performer. He was born in 1968 in the city of

Qamishli Qamishli is a city in northeastern Syria on the Syria–Turkey border, adjoining the city of Nusaybin in Turkey. The Jaghjagh River flows through the city. With a 2004 census population of 184,231, it is the List of cities in Syria, ninth most-po ...

at the northeast of

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. Grigoryan moved to Yerevan in 1987 to pursue his studies in the

Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan (), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned college of music located in Yerevan, Armenia. The institute was founded in 1921 as a music st ...

. Since then, he has lived in Armenia. In 2014, he was awarded with the title of

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1968 births Living people 20th-century Armenian male singers Armenian pop singers Syrian people of Armenian descent People from Qamishli Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan alumni {{Armenia-singer-stub