Valya Samvelyan

Valya Samvelyan (Armenian: Վալյա Սամվելյան; born 12 August 1937 – died 3 December 1990) was a popular Armenian female folk-singer.

She started her artistic career at Soviet samodeyatelnost (self activity) but then she won the competition by Yerevan Radio and became a solo-singer of the Ensemble of Folk Instruments of Radio of Armenia.

Some of the most popular songs in her interpretation were "Anushik Im Quyrik", "Antsar Aygus Nayelov", "Zov Gisher", and "Shorora" by Sayat-Nova, gusan Sheram, Alexey Ekimyan, and others.

She died in a car accident.

Her son Ara Gevorgyan is the producer of her posthumous "Toghetsir indz menak" (You left me alone) and "Anushik im quyrik" (My sweet sister) albums.[1]

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