Erik Karapetyan

Erik Valerayi Karapetyan (Armenian: Էրիկ Վալերայի Կարապետյան; born 5 June 1988), better known as simply Erik, is an Armenian singer-songwriter.

He represented Armenia in the 2011 New Wave international contest for young performers and achieved fifth place.

In 2005, he graduated from Tbilisi's Dzabatdze N79 Georgian School, in which he subsequently studied violin, and after the graduation he transferred to Yerevan.

There, he started to study in the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan until 2011.

In 2021, he won the first edition of Masquerade, the Armenian version of the Masked Singer contest.