SIRUSHO TO BELGRADE FOR ARMENIA

esctoday.com
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Nov 15 2007
Netherlands

Sirusho, a 20 year-old singer and songwriter, will represent Armenia at
the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. This year, she announced
the results of the Armenian televote in during the voting sequence in
Helsinki. The news has been confirmed to esctoday.com by the national
broadcaster this evening.

Sirusho Harutyunyan is currently the fastest rising star in Armenia.

She started performing publicly at the age of seven. Her first album,
Sirusho was released in 1999 and her second one, Sheram followed in
2005. Sirusho was voted Future of Armenian pop music in the first
ever Armenian national music awards. She has given concerts in many
countries around the world including Canada, Belgium, Greece, Poland ,
Syria, Iran, Russia, Georgia, Jordan and the USA.

Armenian composers have been invited to write songs for Sirusho,
5-7 of them will be selected by a special jury and the song which
will represent the country in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will
be chosen during a national final during January or February.

Find out more about Sirusho, Armenia’s third Eurovision Song Contest
representative, here.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress