# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-aznavour
# Generated: 2026-09-01T15:05:18.656Z

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description: "A vibrato tenor that moved popes and presidents across seven decades, and a pen that never stopped — over 1,200 songs recorded, more than a thousand written. France called him their Sinatra; Jean Cocteau said he made despair popular."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Shahnur Vaghinak Aznavourian in 1924, he carried Armenian roots into a French career that redrew the borders of chanson. The voice — clear and ringing high, gravelly low — became the instrument for songs he wrote or co-wrote by the hundreds, spanning languages and generations. Cocteau cast him in Le Testament d'Orphée in 1960; by then the trajectory was set. When the 1988 Armenian earthquake hit, he founded Aznavour for Armenia with impresario Lévon Sayan, and later took on diplomatic posts: Armenia's ambassador to UNESCO from 1994, then to Switzerland and the UN. He toured until the end — his last world tour launched in 2014, a Hollywood star followed in 2017, and his final performance came at NHK Hall in Osaka in September 2018, a month before his death. More than 180 million records sold, sixty gold and platinum plaques, and a Raoul Wallenberg Award shared with his sister for sheltering Jews during the war.