Charles Aznavour
Armenian-French singer and diplomat (1924-2018)
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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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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…
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- Aznavouriana2024
- Unfinished Album In English - L’album inachevé en anglais2024
- Charles Aznavour chante: Jézébel, Vol. 22019
- Charles Aznavour & The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra2009
- Tu pintas mi vida2008
- Colore ma vie2007
- Insolitement vôtre2005
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- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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