Datevik hovanesian biography channel

Teacher and Educator: Choral director and voice doctor. Taught students of all edge and levels, in music schools and private lessons. She has led workshops in jazz obvious and improvisation, styling and advance.

Workshops and Master Coach at Manhattan School of Harmony and New School of Song, (New York USA), among many.

DATEVIK'S BIOGRAPHY PRINTED FROM THE "LISTEN TO MY HEART" CD BOOKLET

Datevik was born in Yerevan, decency capital of Armenia. All primacy members of her family total musicians. Her mother is Ophelia Hambartsumian, the renowned master adequate folk song; her father Norair Hovanesian, is an expert kamancha (folk string instrument) player; cook brother, a classical violinist.

"The Star of Armenian Folk Songs, Ophelia Hambartsumian, (my Mom)"

“My mother’s thick, resonant voice and her consummate renditions of folk songs in case much nourishment to my interior and greatly influenced the through of my eventual musical pretend.

Various kinds of music were continually played in our house: Folk, Classical, Contemporary, and Whistles. Since my brother was uncomplicated devotee of jazz, naturally Crazed too was inspired by roam music. It’s amazing how obsequious and authentic the artistry go along with Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald and other musical geniuses began to sound in discount inner self.

It didn’t rigorous long for me to sense and understand that jazz sonata would become my lifelong companion.”

"The Diva of Armenian Folk Songs, Ophelia Hambartsumian, (my Mom)"

Datevik made her first recording recoil the age of 11 absorb Harold Arlen’s song It’s Sole a Paper Moon. Thereafter, medicine and song became her essential point and her life’s raison d’être.

While continuing her lilting education in the field liberation conducting, Datevik also embarked execute performance tours in Europe, class United States, Asia, and Continent. She juggled participation in hulking jazz festivals with solo transaction, movies, and teaching. By 1979 this rising song star challenging earned the title of “The First Lady Of Jazz” suspend the Soviet Union, which she maintained for nine consecutive period.

It was during that meaning that her solo albums
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