Zara Tonikyan

Zara Tonikyan was born in Yerevan. In 1974 she was the first to represent Armenia and win in international competition of young pop singers in Czech Republic. She has worked at the State Jazz Band of Armenia headed by Konstantin Orbelyan. She was on Moscow Television’s "Goluboy Ogonyok" numerous times along with Russian singer Alla Pugacheva, the two also presented Soviet Pop Art. She has been living and working in Belgium since 1992. Her first solo concert after moving to Belgium was in 1994 at a jazz club in the city of Kortrijk. She performed in many countries around the world.