Vocalise (Mood)

Elvina Makaryan was born in Yerevan. She attended Sayat-Nova Music School of Yerevan in 1957. Elvina won the main prize for the song "Where are you, boys" by R. Amirkhanian, at "Young Voices" of All Union Competition held in Ostankino, Moscow in 1973. While working she studied at the Piano Department of Yerevan State Conservatory. In the 1980s the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union put her under house arrest and paid her wages in order not to work. In 1989 she moved to the USA and in the early 1990s returned to Yerevan. Till the end of the 1990's Elvina Makaryan lived and worked in Yerevan after which moved to Los Angeles. She committed suicide at her home in Los Angeles. After her death she wished to be cremated and have her ashes scattered over the ocean.