A Finn to represent Armenia in Oslo?

esctoday.com
31/Jan at 14:35

A Finn to represent Armenia in Oslo?

Maria Kirizian, already qualified for the national final?
A Finn to represent Armenia in Oslo?

Maria Kirizian (Maria Voutilainen), a Finnish singer now based in Los
Angeles, USA, has submitted her song Little red riding hood to the
Armenian broadcaster in order to participate at the country’s
selection for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. According to the
Finnish broadcaster MTV3, ARMPTV have granted her a spot in the
national final, thus being the first time that the Armenian selection
opens its doors to a foreign artist.

Maria Kizirian was born in Finland’s Arctic region, but soon moved to
the USA with her parents. Since a very early age, Maria has been
involved with music. When she was 4, she learned to play the violin,
and at the age of 10, she was already performing with the local
symphony. Her singing career kicked off as a teenager, when she won a
school singing contest, which encouraged her to follow that path.

Finnish brodcaster MTV3 reports that the Armenian jury "fell in love"
with Maria’s song and decided to grant her a spot in the national
final, to be held on February 14th at the Opera House in Yerevan.
Nonetheless, the official list of participants will be announced on
February 10th. The song has already received much exposure on US
radiostations in both the San Francisco Bay area and New York.

Little red riding hood "is not the story of old, there’s no red cape.
It is a modern story of a girl who falls for the wolf in sheep’s
clothing", as Maria herself describes her entry on her MySpace page.
The Finnish singer feels proud about the song’s making process, as it
has been entirely composed by herself and her family: Maria wrote,
sang, and produced the song; her daughters Cheyenne and Melody sing
backing vocals, along with cousin Tim Demirjian and his daughter, Joy.
The song was mixed by her husband, Paul Kirizian.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS