Aznavour: Because I like to live

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 Because I like to live, worldwide renowned chansonnier Charles Aznavour answered with no hesitation to a question in New York, where hes going have three performances, ITAR-Tass reported.Charles Aznavour, who ...

 

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The Singing Ambassador

There is a singing Ambassador, to my best knowledge he is the only singing Ambassador in the world, and the oldest active Ambassador since he is 89 years old (singing makes one stay young); he is the Ambassador of Armenia to Switzerland since 2009. His name is Charles Aznavour and he resides in the place of his ambassadorship in Switzerland. Aznavour has dual citizenship, Armenian and French (or was it Swiss?).

He was invited by the Israeli President Shimon Peres not for political business but for giving a concert in Tel Aviv. On Friday 22 November, 2013, before the concert on Saturday, Shimon Peres invited the Armenian Ambassador for lunch who was glad to be hosted by the Israeli President. On Friday he also gave a press conference saying he has come to sing for peace; he said also that he was saddened that Israel has still not recognized the Armenian Genocide by the Turks. He said Jews and Armenians, two people, who know how to love life (la vie) otherwise they would not have survived for so long.

Unfortunately the Palestinians did not ask Aznavour to come sing for them since dancing and singing is against the religion of Islam.

His Saturday night concert was well received by the Israeli public. There are few songs from that concert posted in You-Tube, just put in You-ube search tap:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Charles+Aznavour+in+Israel+November+2013&sm=12

Edited November 25, 2013 by man