CHARLES AZNAVOUR IN SAMARKAND TO ATTEND MUSIC FESTIVAL

Armenpress
Aug 29, 2005

SAMARKAND, AUGUST 29, ARMENPRESS: Acclaimed French singer of Armenian
origin, Charles Aznavour, has arrived in Samarkand in the former
Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, to attend Eastern Melodies international
music festival.
He was welcomed by Uzbekistan’s president Islam Karimov. Aznavour
traveled today from Samarkand to Bukhara to see its famous
architectural monuments and came back the same day. He was quoted
by Aida Ibrahimova from the festival steering commission as saying
that he had realized his youth dream when at the age of 12 he had
read a book called Let Us Go to Samarkand. The festival has brought
musicians from 50 countries.