Artsakh Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 (edited) I just found this cool Harout Pamboukjian fan website: Fan website Edited March 5, 2005 by Artsakh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 I just found this cool Harout Pamboukjian fan website: Fan website style_images/master/snapback.png oh wow, nice to see that there is another harout pamboukjian fan out there. thanks for the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 There has never been one better than Harut P and there never will be. If there is a God in this Universe, then Harut is Him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artsakh Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 There has never been one better than Harut P and there never will be. If there is a God in this Universe, then Harut is Him. style_images/master/snapback.png Looks like someone is jealous. You probably didn't make anything of your music career and are taking it out on others. Harout Pamboukjian rules. I have every single one of his cd's, and I never get tired of listening to his golden voice or going to his concerts. God bless him, he is a legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Harout @ mnum e HArout inch uzzum en asen - bayst te Lava yergum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Looks like someone is jealous. You probably didn't make anything of your music career and are taking it out on others. Harout Pamboukjian rules. I have every single one of his cd's, and I never get tired of listening to his golden voice or going to his concerts. God bless him, he is a legend. style_images/master/snapback.png Artsakh, why do you hate Harut so much? He is a very good singer no matter what you say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 if anyone has a friend who doesn't like Harut P, please consider re-evaluating your friendship and what it really means in the grand scheme of things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 There has never been one better than Harut P and there never will be. If there is a God in this Universe, then Harut is Him. style_images/master/snapback.png i'm honored... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artsakh Posted March 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Artsakh, why do you hate Harut so much? He is a very good singer no matter what you say. style_images/master/snapback.png which harout? i though u were mocking harout by sarcastically saying that he was his own biggest fan. perhaps i misunderstood. any how, i'm nuts about harout pamboukjian. he rules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Nope ... I actually have almost all his songs ... any time I am flying or taking a long trip, his stuff is what I listen to almost exclusively! I usually try not to sing loudly on the plane but in my car, I am singing along all the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Azat Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Note to self: Never get on a plane or a car with Sip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Note to self: Never get on a plane or a car with Sip style_images/master/snapback.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 (edited) Note to self: Never get on a plane or a car with Sip style_images/master/snapback.png Hey, next time you go, take me with you to Maui, and I'll do a full rendition of Aznavour in D minor and then even throw in some Pavarotti for your enjoyment Edited March 8, 2005 by Sip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Sip isk Aprili 3 it's minchev 12 Azat es ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Che yes yerpek Azat chem ... yes misht Seapahn_ em! Azat linele edpes el hesht chi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Che yes yerpek Azat chem ... yes misht Seapahn_ em! Azat linele edpes el hesht chi style_images/master/snapback.png Du el Seaphan@ ches du hima Sip'n es hima inch es asum galsi es yerges mez hamar mi 2 hat tsnund yev HArsaniq ka Aprilin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 I have every single one of his cd's, and I never get tired of listening to his golden voice or going to his concerts. God bless him, he is a legend. style_images/master/snapback.png Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 God bless yes, agree, but a legend of what? where? I have known him for a long time, even he would reject such a word, he is very entertaining and fun to be around with, I mostly enjoy his Jokes along with singing, I wished he played his quitar more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artsakh Posted March 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 God bless yes, agree, but a legend of what? where? I have known him for a long time, even he would reject such a word, he is very entertaining and fun to be around with, I mostly enjoy his Jokes along with singing, I wished he played his quitar more. style_images/master/snapback.png He is a legend of Armenian music. No one comes close to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitelotus Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Hey, next time you go, take me with you to Maui, and I'll do a full rendition of Aznavour in D minor and then even throw in some Pavarotti for your enjoyment style_images/master/snapback.png Don't forget Maria Callas and Montserrat Caballe http://die-pretty.net/forum/images/smiles/30.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 (edited) Nope ... I actually have almost all his songs ... any time I am flying or taking a long trip, his stuff is what I listen to almost exclusively! I usually try not to sing loudly on the plane but in my car, I am singing along all the way style_images/master/snapback.png Sipan jan, I just read that it is deer mating season and wanted to warn you to lower the volume on the car stereo when you listen to Harut. Else deer might think it is a moose in heat and jump in front of your car. Edited April 2, 2005 by Azat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 Azat jan it's not only the deer mating season amen kendaninern en r@zghnats MAn KyAlis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artsakh Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Harout Pamboukjian From Armeniapedia.org "The Armenian Wedding Singer" Born in 1950 in Yerevan. His mother was a singer, and he took up the guitar ? he also plays the bouzouki and saz (stringed instruments), dhol (drums) and piano ? in his early teens, later forming a band called Erebouni. ?My mother had a beautiful voice,? he says, ?And I heard all those old folk songs in my house at an early age.? His band went from village to village playing, surprisingly, covers of everything from Charles Aznavour to Deep Purple and Elvis, at weddings and universities. Due to restrictions under the Soviet Union, Harout and most of his family left Soviet Armenia in 1975. After a year in Lebanon, he came to L.A. and took up residence in Hollywood. In the late ?70s and early ?80s, there were only a few thousand Armenians in L.A., most of whom were centered in East Hollywood. There were two local cable programs on the weekend that featured news and music, and nearly all the businesses ? Parseghian Records, Arka Photo, Panos Pastry, Carousel, King Arshag, etc. ? were on Hollywood or Santa Monica boulevards. Only two months after his arrival here, Harout put together a studio band and recorded his first album, Our Eyir Astvats (Where Were You, God? - in reference to the Armenian Genocide) at the Quad Teck studio on Western and Sixth in Koreatown. He got on the nightclub circuit, doing his first gigs on Sundays at a Beverly Hills tennis club owned by an Armenian. That first album, now considered a classic, barely resembles the trademark sound he?s become known for since then. Instead of the usual weepy duduk (a double-reed often called ?the saddest instrument in the world?) or synths, you get clarinet, organ and a lot of bass. Listen closer and you?ll hear some funky wah-wah guitar too, though only a few of the songs are dance-oriented, certainly different from the material that later made him so popular at weddings. Most bands and singers pay their dues in smoky nightclubs, bars and coffee shops. Harout honed his skills at Armenian engagement parties, baptisms, fairs and dinner dances, where one expects five to six hours of music (a DJ and a couple of singers) and an obscene amount of food. Fathers-of-the-bride in places as far away as France have typically shelled out a couple of thousand bucks for just an hour of Harout?s time. He?s played the Rose Bowl, the Shrine and the Palladium, too. But it?s at all those banquet halls, whatever the occasion, where fans get the best sense of what Harout?s music is about. An amalgamation of contemporary, folk and patriotic musics, at times it may sound like flashy pop, but with an inescapable earthiness that seems to emanate from the very soul of his people. Harout interprets songs by fellow artists including Rouben Hakhverdian, Robert Amirkhanian, Arthur Meschian and others who write for him. But it?s the centuries-old sacred and grandiose folk tunes about protecting the soil and fighting in the highlands ? "Antranik *****," "Sassouni Orore," "Msho Aghchig" ? that really get the blood stirring with nationalistic pride. Among Harout?s favorites is Nuné, who?s doing the modern thing and still keeping the tradition alive. But he's most fond of Rouben Hakhverdian, a "real troubadour" who has a wonderfully biting way of spouting Dylanesque ramblings like they?re the Gospel. His collaboration with Harout on the 1996 almost all-acoustic Yerke Nayev Aghotk Eh (Songs Are Also Prayers) is somber, intimate and filled with the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails grit one must listen to, not dance to. Just two men with their guitars. Harout has no family left in Armenia. He lives comfortably in North Hollywood with his son, Isay, and his wife, Rose, who does all the backup vocals on his records. A year after the 1988 earthquake in Armenia that killed 25,000 people and left more than 500,000 homeless, hundreds of thousands of fans looking for some kind of temporary diversion from the devastation packed the Hrazdan stadium and Hamalir Demirchian Arena to hear 28 concerts by their favorite singer. Then?Minister of Culture Yuri Melik-Ohanjanian remarked these were the highest-attended performances in the history of Armenia. Today, there are over 20 Harout albums and counting. HAROUT PAMBOUKJIAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artsakh Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Pamboukjian, Harout Gifted with an ultra-smooth vocal range, Harout Pamboukjian has taken the music of Armenia to the international stage. According to the L.A. Weekly, Pamboukjian's "husky tenor has a softness that coos and quivers when he does the syrupy love songs with sweeping keyboards that sound as if they're aching along with him." The son of a vocalist, Pamboukjian studied guitar, bouzouki, saz, dhol, and piano as a teen. As the leader of a band, Erebouni, he traveled throughout his homeland performing pop tunes at weddings and universities. The struggles of living under communist rule, however, resulted in Pamboukjian leaving Armenia in 1975. After residing in Lebanon for a year, he continued to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. It took little time for him to resume his career. Within two months, he had recorded his debut album, Our Eyir Asivats (Where Were You, God?). Pamboukjian has been embraced by Los Angeles' Armenian community, the largest Armenian diaspora in the world. After building an audience with his weekly performances at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, he continued to hone his skills at Armenian engagement parties, baptism, weddings, and dinner dances. While the traditional music of Armenia continues to be the foundation for his repertoire, Pamboukjian has taken a modern approach to his music. Instead of the somber tones of the double reed duduk, he's framed his music in a swirl of clarinets, organ, and bass. In a mid-'90s interview, he explained, "The real sound is lost. If you're going to do something Armenian, do it right. Our music and poetry are so rich; there are songs written hundreds of years ago that are still untouched. Go and find them, take them, and make them your own." ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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