Art Sevada or Artak Sevada Grigorian ( hy, Արտակ Սևադա Գրիգորյան; born July 23, 1972) is an

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and an

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Early life

Sevada was born in Abovyan, Armenia, in the family of a renowned artist,

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. He studied

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, and

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instruments at the local music school in Abovyan. In 1990, he immigrated to the United States of America. He studied at: *1991 Herbert Hoover High School,

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*1995 Glendale Community College *1997

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majoring in Visual Arts Graphic Design

Career

He has released three albums of original music - '' Palpitation of a Soul'' (1995); '' Years of Solitude'' (1998); '' Disconnected'' (2000). All albums exclusively distributed by Garni Records (BMI). In 1998, he founded Sevada Productions, where Art executed multimedia and advertising projects for artists, various types of companies and creative firms. In 2005, Sevada started the filming of the Sevada Short Films Trilogy titled Mikosh starring Ofelia Zakaryan, later followed by As a Beginning and

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' starring

Michael Poghosian Michael Movsesi Poghosyan (sometimes credited as Mikael Pogosyan, Michael Poghosian, Mikael Poghosyan, hy, Միքայել Պողոսյան; born 31 May 1954) is an Armenian film and theatre actor, as well as a judge on the Armenian version of ...

and Sergey Danielyan. In 2008, he was invited to shoot a film called Three Colors in Black & White as part of a full-length film project shot by 12 Armenian directors dedicated to the capital city of

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. He is also a CEO at GRIGOCORP, a media and products conglomerate, founded in 2015.

Personal life

Sevada is married to Gohar Sevada Grigorian and has two daughters, they reside in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sevada, Artak Living people Film producers from California 1972 births California State University, Northridge alumni Film directors from Los Angeles

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