{"id":9702,"date":"2024-08-08T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2024-08-09T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:38:19","slug":"aram-tigran-armenian-musician-1934-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/aram-tigran-armenian-musician-1934-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Aram Tigran, Armenian musician (1934-2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9702\" class=\"elementor elementor-9702\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1943468 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1943468\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-020c04b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"020c04b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Aram Tigran, Armenian singer (1934-2009)<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6e2713 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e6e2713\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65efb24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"65efb24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aram Tigran (1934-2009) was an Armenian musician who sang primarily in Kurdish, giving life to many beloved songs like \u201cBilbilo, D\u00eelber\u00ea.\u201d By singing Kurdish songs, he earned an eternal place in the hearts of the Kurdish people. \u00a0F\u0131rat Anl\u0131 recalls: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bianet.org\/haber\/armenian-musician-aram-tigran-to-be-buried-in-diyarbakir-116375\">Tigran<\/a> is almost the first name that comes to mind when one speaks about Kurdish music. Everyone over a certain age in this region got to know music in their mother tongue because of Tigran, with his soft, emotional tunes, and the oud he was a master of.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77d2072 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"77d2072\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aram Tigran was born in Qamishli in northeastern Syria. Both his parents were Armenian, and both were born in villages near the city of Diyarbak\u0131r. During the Armenian genocide of 1915, his parents had escaped\u2014because a Kurdish family took his father in and protected him. So his father advised him, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anfenglishmobile.com\/culture\/the-bard-of-the-middle-east-aram-tigran-21469\">Sing<\/a> in Kurdish.\u201d Aram Tigran remained faithful to his father\u2019s will and throughout his life put great importance to the fraternity of the Kurdish and Armenian people.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the age of six, his uncle gave him his first oud. His father taught him how to play it. He left school after ninth grade to learn music and play oud. He also learned to play the c\u00fcmb\u00fc\u015f, an oud-like instrument, in a Kurdish folkloric style. In 1953 he gave his first public concert at a Newroz celebration. By the age of twenty, he was singing in four languages: Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, and Armenian.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8eb2eb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f8eb2eb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-689d2cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"689d2cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In 1966 he moved to Yerevan, Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union), where for eighteen years he was employed by Radio Yerevan. In 1995 he left Armenia and settled in Athens.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He recorded 500 songs in Armenian, Kurdish, Syriac, Arabic, and Greek. His songs \u201cBilbilo, D\u00eelber\u00ea,\u201d \u201cTe Ez Kalkirim bi Ciwan\u00ee,\u201d \u201cD\u00eelber,\u201d \u201c\u015eev \u00c7\u00fb,\u201d \u201cD\u00eeyarbekir,\u201d \u201cZiman\u00ea Kurd\u00ee,\u201d \u201cAx L\u00ea Eman\u201d are cherished in the Kurdish repertoire.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b4eab3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3b4eab3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b816b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4b816b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aram-tigran-header-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9701\" alt=\"Aram Tigran\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aram-tigran-header-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aram-tigran-header-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aram-tigran-header-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aram-tigran-header-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Aram-tigran-header.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f8f5ba1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f8f5ba1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34bae40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34bae40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among his albums are:<\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ax dilber\u00ea <\/em>(1992)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ke\u00e7\u00ea d\u00een\u00ea <\/em>(1992)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Rabin <\/em>(1992)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Xwez\u00ee d\u00eesa zarb\u00fbma <\/em>(1997)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ev\u00eena feqiy\u00ea Teyran <\/em>(2002)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Kurdistan <\/em>(2004)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Z\u00eelan<\/em> (2004)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Serxweb\u00fbn xwe<\/em><em>\u015f<\/em><em> e,<\/em> (2004)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00c7\u00eeyay\u00ea gebar\u00ea<\/em> (2004)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Gel\u00ea kurd dest bidin dest\u00ea hev <\/em>(2009)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ke\u00e7\u00ea d\u00een\u00ea<\/em> (2016)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Ax d\u00eelber\u00ea<\/em> (2016)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Em hatin <\/em>(2021)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Heval\u00ea serok <\/em>(2022)<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and many others<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e300e09 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e300e09\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03aabab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"03aabab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anfenglishmobile.com\/culture\/the-bard-of-the-middle-east-aram-tigran-21469\">If I was reborn<\/a> and I had enough power, I would melt all the weapons, tanks and missiles in this world. And from the mass I would form tambours, cumbus and zurnas and distribute them to the people. Why should humans ever kill each other? Why!? Instead, they shall live with art, and be mirthful.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a468fc1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a468fc1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6557bce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6557bce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5622c64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5622c64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">In late life<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1edf9a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c1edf9a\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3a6afa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3a6afa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Newroz 2008 celebrations in Batman, he sang in Kurdish, Turkish, Armenian and Arabic. He also sang \u201cSar\u0131 Gelin\u201d in memory of assassinated journalist and human rights activist Hrant Dink.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2009 he was able to visit the villages where his parents grew up under the Ottoman Empire. He was welcomed in Diyarbak\u0131r and gave a concert at the Newroz celebrations in Batman. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bianet.org\/haber\/armenian-musician-aram-tigran-to-be-buried-in-diyarbakir-116375\">It was our<\/a> greatest dream for him to come to Diyarbak\u0131r and play at a concert,\u201d said Firat Anl\u0131. \u201cIt took us years to achieve it. Previously, the situation in Turkey made it impossible; he himself hesitated. But his first arrival was a historical event, like a dream. Thousands of people had tears in their eyes when they listened to him.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his stay in Diyarbak\u0131r, Tigran said he loved the city very much. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bianet.org\/haber\/armenian-musician-aram-tigran-to-be-buried-in-diyarbakir-116375\">It was the<\/a> dream of the century to come to Diyarbak\u0131r. I always used to say, \u2018God, will I ever see the place where my parents lived before I die?\u2019 Two years ago, after becoming a Greek citizen, I first came to Diyarbak\u0131r. I was very touched and wrote a song. One verse of it goes like this (in Kurdish):<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Di xewn\u00ean \u015fevan de min bawer nedikir \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bi \u00e7avan bib\u00eenim bajar\u00ea Diyarbekir \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rojba\u015f Diyarbekir me pir b\u00eariya te kir<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Te der\u00ee li me vekir<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Te me \u015fa kir.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had dreamed it, I would not have believed it<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being able to see Diyarbak\u0131r<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good morning Diyarbak\u0131r, I have missed you very much<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You opened your gates to me<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You made us very happy.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2009 he visited the Diyarbakir villages where his parents grew up during the Ottoman period. He gave a concert at the Newroz celebrations in Batman.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He died in Athens on August 8, 2009. He had said he wanted to be buried in Diyarbak\u0131r, but the Turkish Ministry of the Interior refused on grounds that he was not a Turkish citizen. \u00a0Instead he was buried in a Brussels cemetery, and some soil from Diyarbak\u0131r was poured into his grave.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tigran\u2019s widow Sirvat Melikiyan said Kurdish identity, music and culture meant everything to him. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/anfenglishmobile.com\/culture\/the-bard-of-the-middle-east-aram-tigran-21469\">He deemed<\/a> the freedom of the Kurdish people his own freedom. Until his death he stood with the Kurds. He always desired to contribute to the Kurdish culture. Therefore the Kurdish people have love for him.\u201d And: \u00a0\u201cWith his music Aram wanted to show that peoples are no enemies of each other. He used to say: \u2018Through my music I will prove that Kurds and Armenians are brother peoples. I will rebut the enmity between people through my music.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aram Tigran, Armenian singer (1934-2009) Aram Tigran (1934-2009) was an Armenian musician who sang primarily in Kurdish, giving life to many beloved songs like \u201cBilbilo, D\u00eelber\u00ea.\u201d By singing Kurdish songs, he earned an eternal place in the hearts of the Kurdish people. \u00a0F\u0131rat Anl\u0131 recalls: \u201cTigran is almost the first name that comes to mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9710,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions\/9710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}