Azat Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Armine, Welcome to HyeForum. I do love that song as well. I just love Nune's voice. She is pretty and couple of years ago she and I traveled to Armenia in the same plane from London to Yerevan. Except that turkey could afford to sit in first class and I was in cattle class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armine3773 Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Thanks for the welcome..LOL CATTLE CLASS! I love anything that Tata sings. Heck, he can sing a Barney song and I'll be infatuated with it. I love that man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 Armine, Welcome to HyeForum. I do love that song as well. I just love Nune's voice. She is pretty and couple of years ago she and I traveled to Armenia in the same plane from London to Yerevan. Except that turkey could afford to sit in first class and I was in cattle class. LOL!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyebruin Posted January 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 welcome armine and happy new year )))) i didn't find the lyrics online...it's alllll me! j/k ...shad sirelutz-aah!! vohr garoghanum em baarer@ haskanaal!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armine3773 Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 welcome armine and happy new year )))) i didn't find the lyrics online...it's alllll me! j/k ...shad sirelutz-aah!! vohr garoghanum em baarer@ haskanaal!! Happy New Year to you as well! I wish they had Tata lyrics online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyRoss Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 An hayastansi friend of mine told me that Tata has kurd roots ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyebruin Posted January 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 An hayastansi friend of mine told me that Tata has kurd roots ??? we all do!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyebruin Posted January 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 NeW Tata Song ( Yes Qez Tesa ) is in Sold Out #3 Cd it's a nice CD Aida Harout Hagopyan Nersic Isparian Nune Yesayan Armen Aloyan Hasmik Ararat Marina Levon Navasardyan Tata Shushan Petrosyan thank you movses jan!!! i got the cd before heading back, listened to it on the way back...it's a nice collection....i liked ararat's too..a lot!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 The Daily Star, Lebanon Jan 9 2004 Tata asked back to thrill Armenian audiences Size of following indicates that whatever the singer lacks in originality, he more than makes up for with energy Garine Tcholakian Daily Star staff Tata is the biggest name in Armenian pop music today. Or so his fans say. There is no limit, it seems, to what a community will do to stay together. Over the past six years, Tata Simonian has slowly become the king of Armenian popular dance better known as rabiz music. The Armenian singer, hailed both in his country as well as abroad, has attracted quite a following. Since 1996, Tata has been touring cities with large Armenian communities. He was invited to Lebanon for the first time last year to perform at UNESCO Palace on the Armenian Christmas. The event caused such a buzz that he was invited back this year by the Hamazkayin Cultural Committee for concerts on consecutive nights at the Biel Pavilion Royal on Monday, and at the UNESCO Palace on Tuesday. What is fascinating about Tata is that his music is not fascinating at all. If anything, he is simply the king of restaurant, wedding and community hall singers all over the world. In his early 20s like so many others in Los Angeles, Montreal, Windsor and Toronto Tata started singing in bands that included do-it-all synthesizers. At that time, he could only hope to have a rock star following, even one limited to the Armenian community. Like them, he sang traditional Armenian dance songs about love lost or hoped for and never had the benefit of any formal musical training. "(The songs) just come to me," Tata reveals in interview on the day after his UNESCO concert. "I don't compose music. I just come up with the songs in my head and play them … I don't know why I became more successful than others," he continues. "God just answered my prayers, I guess, because I have always dreamed of becoming a star." Even until recently, with the exception of well-liked songs like Anabadi Arev (Desert Sun) and those on his newest album, Antrsev e kalis (It's Raining), Tata's music was not original work but his own version of popular Armenian dance songs. This "own" version, according to his fans, is what makes Tata special. What that means, though, is that the same de rigeur extended guitar solos and 4/4 drum-beats that can be found in every Armenian barahantess (dance), banquet, or celebratory event, are performed by Tata "his" way. But neither the 6,000-member crowd at Biel, nor those who attended the UNESCO Palace concert Tuesday night seemed to care about any of this. For them, it was Tata, and he was enough. Some had come from Anjar just to see him perform. For them, what was most important is the ability of a singer to "get you up to dance," and, assuredly, Tata can do this. He runs up on stage at the UNESCO Palace concert hall, a little more enthusiastic than the crowd, wearing a white bohemian shirt, black leather pants and, as always, his signature baseball cap (black leather, ornamented with swarovski crystals). His kind, beady eyes squint into the crowd under the shade of his cap. Amidst colorful, flashing spotlights and other stage effects, he prompts the Armenian Christmas evening crowd. "Rabiz is for the young, let's go! Clap! Clap!" he yells. "We hope you don't sit there all night, we hope you are going to get up and sing, whistle, dance!" For over two hours of what sounds like versions of the same song (with the exception of a couple slower tunes), the audience claps in unison with the enthusiasm of a sing-along for songs they have often heard in their cars and at birthday parties. Tata meanwhile seems to enjoy himself on stage, playing air guitar, drumming his hands in the air, and mimicking (perhaps once too often) the electric guitar players in the band with his microphone stand. The crowd seems oblivious to the occasional feedback from the speakers that intrudes periodically. Nor do they seem a bit bothered by the sudden power outage on the speakers: an outage that interrupts one song, and which briefly brings the entire performance to a halt. "We're used to this in Armenia," Tata says with a charming smile. "Only in Armenia, the power doesn't come back on." The crowd laughs, and as the music begins again, they clap with renewed fervor, energized by a moment of collective embarrassment. Soon thereafter, a young couple from the crowd comes down from their seats and begins to dance in front of Tata below the stage. Like professional ice-breakers, they encourage the audience to join them. After a couple of songs, a train of teenage Armenian girls join in, wearing flared jeans and stylish short skirts. They join fingers and dance the common shourtch bar while mouthing the words. The UNESCO Palace hall soon begins to feel like a familiar Armenian house party. The girls then line up at the edge of the stage, facing Tata, for the remainder of the concert, waving their hands in the air from side to side, looking at each other only to change the pattern to a rhythmic clap-then-back step movement. "This next song is dedicated to all the young girls," yells Tata. The older audience members watch them from their seats, smiling. What makes Tata the phenomenon he is surely has nothing to do with the originality of his music, but rather his ability to feed the continuous and insatiable willingness of the new Armenian diaspora to survive culturally. It helps, of course, that he comes from the motherland itself, satisfying the community's need to get closer to its source. While there is hardly a shortage of Armenian rabiz singers, the need for a singular rallying figure is indeed great perhaps so great that it supersedes, sadly, any consideration of the quality of that new cultural direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 It seems like the word "rabiz" is a currency which had a pegged exchange rate and now is floating freely in the market to find its real value/meaning. Some apply it to everything that is Armenian and bad, others use it for "macho" and here in that article it is applied to Armenian pop dance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Spiking of “rabiz” have any of your watched the new year program from Armenia ?? on the 31st / 1st the one that has our Gusan / king of Armenian singers / Aram Papik ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Spiking of “rabiz” have any of your watched the new year program from Armenia ?? on the 31st / 1st the one that has our Gusan / king of Armenian singers / Aram Papik ?? The new year program from Armenia was "xaytarakutyun". It was so untasteful - it's a shame that Armenia's national television has sunk to that level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Anuhsik i liked most of the songs but the part of Arem was not somthing for TV & not for new years programm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 I'm talking about the show with Grisha and other singers. Is that what you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 ahha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 judging from reactions i am glad i haven't seen it. would aram papik in that show be rabiz aram asatryan? if so then our culture seems to be going downhill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Sasun jan inchpes asem barniqi xalathov - korqin mi qani 98 1/2% merk kanayq - portapar en p[arum inqn el nstats yerguma - heto el dzi nstats prospektov ijnuma nerqev - heto el grishiki het mi shat antarand video klip - @endhanur - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 tsragri garapar@ vat cher - himnakanum lav er tsragir@ - shat lav yergich yergchuiner - chgitem yerevi mer spasumner@n aveli bartser en qan mer hnaravorutyun@. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 lseq n@katetsiq Haykon yev pepeyan Qristinan kturts ktutsi en te indz tvum ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 When I saw that I thought that Aram Asatryan should be put to jail. Those girls looked like teenagers who could have been his granddaughters. It was disgusting. And that black servant behind him was totally inappropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 No Mosjan, tsagr@ri gaghapar@ shat vatn er. Hndkakan kinoneri anchashak "story"n ein vertsrel. Yergichnern el sovorakan antaghand yergichnern ein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 I am concerned that Aram is called a gusan. what??? gusan??? no way, until a few years ago there was sar u dzor between gusan and rabiz, so now if aram is gusan then who is rabiz? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Sasun, is he really called gusan on by musician or just by his fans? I heard about this but it's really hard to believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 bolorn en antarand no ary etpes chasenq / ardar chi lini garaparn el vat cher / ornam im korgi harevan@ vro 3rd masitsa shata sirel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 I am concerned that Aram is called a gusan. what??? gusan??? no way, until a few years ago there was sar u dzor between gusan and rabiz, so now if aram is gusan then who is rabiz? Sasun jan at his 50th bday - he was gavan a HyeGusan Kochum From Armenian Gov. Gusan Aram Asatryan Sasun jan shat yerger uni grats / shnorqov gortser shat uni / kam es tsragri mej voroshel eyin mi lav dzer arneyin kam el chgitem inch asem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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