Singer Zara Tonikyan passed away at the age of 71.
Artist Karen Hakobyan announced the news of the singer's death on her Facebook page. "Zara is no longer with us, like a beautiful blue dream, an inimitable entity... Always a part of my love and prayers... I don't know how it happened, I just found out that she is no more... Already one month... One month," he wrote.
Zara Tonikyan was born on January 5, 1953 in Yerevan. He started his musical activity in the 1970s. In 1974, he was the first to represent Armenia in the international competition of pop singers in the Czech Republic and won. He worked in the jazz band led by Konstantin Orbelyan.
He performed in "Goluboy Ogonyoks" and presented Soviet pop music with Russian singer Alla Pugacheva in a program filmed on USSR Central Television with songs by Arno Babajanyan, Robert Amirkhanyan, Aram Satyan and other composers.
He lived and worked in Belgium since 1992.
