Varduhi Vardanyan ( hy, Վարդուհի Վարդանյան;

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, 2006) was an

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n singer. She has participated in many international song contests and always won many awards and was awarded best singer of Armenia.

Early life

Varduhi Vardanyan was born on

, in

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. She is one of three children in the family. Since her early childhood, she had a passion towards singing. She used everything similar to microphone to sing. Eventually it became unique way of self-education for her. She had a 96-page copybook containing her favorite pioneer songs. In 1983, a music group was established at her school, where she started to take classes. Later on the music group was named after Ashot Bznuni. In 1986, Vardanyan started to attend Naira Gyurjinyan's vocal group to improve her skills. Afterwards she studied at the musical school named after Alexandr Spendiaryan. During these years she developed her very own musical taste. Her dream was to sing with

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Education

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

– graduated from the 8th high school named after Alexander Pushkin. *

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

– graduated from musical school *

– entered Linguistic University named after Valery Bryusov at the section of English language and politics. *

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

– entered State Song Theatre and since 1995 she has worked there, *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

– after studying at university, she started to work as a teacher of the English language . *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

– graduated from

Yerevan State Conservatory Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan ( hy, Երևանի Կոմիտասի անվան պետական կոնսերվատորիա), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned colleg ...

named after Komitas.

Career

– together with the group "Jazz-Pop" participated in international contest held in Sverdlovsk and got Grand Prix. *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

– started to work at Armenian state music theatre. *

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

– participated to the contest of young singers "Yalta - Moscow" transit, where she got a prize for the best performance. *

– she was awarded best singer of Armenia. *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

– in the contest "Discovery" held in

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she got Grand Prix and an additional Audience Choice Award. *

– in

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she again got Grand Prix. *

– participated in International Festival of Arts “Slavianski Bazaar" and got second prize. *

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– participated in international festival "Море друзей 2001" in

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and got second prize.

Death

She died on

, 2006, in a car accident at Sevan - Martuni highway. She is buried at the Tokhmakh cemetery. After her death, many Armenian programs were dedicated to her, including

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, and The Mechanics of Happiness.

Family

* Husband: Aram Avoyan * Child: Ruben Avoyan, born in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Disarray'' (2003), (2006)

Posthumous

* ''Only you'' (russian: Только ты) (2007) * ''13 songs dedicated to Varduhi Vardanyan'' (2008) * ''You are mine'' ( hy, Իմն ես) (2011)

References

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