Gohar Gasparyan

Born in an Armenian family in Cairo, Egypt, Gasparyan studied at a Music Academy in the city.

In 1948, she migrated to Soviet Armenia along with thousands of other Armenians from the Middle East.

[1] In 1951 she was the soprano in A Heroine by Haro Stepanian [hy] in Yerevan.

Gasparyan was a People's Artist of the USSR, a Hero of Socialist Labour and a Mesrop Mashtots order-bearer.

[citation needed] Gohar Gasparyan died in Yerevan and is buried at Komitas Pantheon.