Biography

André was born in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armeniato a family of Armenianancestry. At the age of three André started singing with his family as audience. Three years later he began taking pianoclasses, and at the age of nine he wrote his first song, which he called Prayer, showing his appreciation towards God. His professional singing career started at the age of 15 when he won the music contest Road to Renaissance. For the last few years, André has been the lead vocalist of the pop-jazzband Karabakh, with whom he has toured all over Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. He has participated in numerous music festivals in Asia, Eastern Europeand the United States, winning many of them and finishing top three in a few others.

 Armenia enters Eurovision

In 2006 he was the first artist to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest, performing one of the 37 songs in Athens. There André sang Without Your Love, a mixture between modern Westernand traditional Armenian music. The song was composed by an Armenian celebrity, Armen Martirosyan, the conductor of the Armenian Jazz Orchestra. The instrumentation and arrangement was done by one of Armenian music business' most highly regarded persons, Ara Torosyan. ARMTVpresented their Eurovision 2006entry to the public on March 15. After qualifying through the semi-final André finished in 8th place in the competition with 129 points.