Flora Martirosian

Flora Martirosian was born on February 5, 1957, in Leninakan (now Gyumri) to a family of an athlete and a housewife.

A graduate of the Yerevan State Conservatory, she later married Hrahat Gevorgyan, a journalist, in 1987.

In 2007, she established the Artists for Peace Charity Foundation which attracted a large number of world-renowned singers and Hollywood superstars who joined under the slogan "Never Again" to raise their voice of protest against genocides.

[2] In 2005, she and Christine Pepelyan won an award called "The Best Duet" in Los Angeles.

The then-President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan stated that she was "truly national", then continued "Audiences, which she collected in homeland and in the Diaspora, talk about the ethnic routes of her songs, which she has earned as a distinctive singer and Armenian artist".