ROBERT CHILINGIRIAN

World renowned Armenian and International singer/songwriter Robert Chilingirian has just won another Award for his own composition “N4R R4N” which earned him the prestigious title of Best Latin Artist at the Hollywood Music Awards at the Kodak Theater on November 20. This beautiful song is featured on his “Different Faces 2008 Vol.19” CD which also earned him Album of the Year at the CAC (Central Asian & Caucasian) Awards in NY on November 9 at the Colden Auditorium. An enormous achievement in one month for one so talented!

Robert was born in Beirut, Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1975. He’s been residing in L.A. since 1992. This prolific artist has mastered a degree in music from Long Island University (NY) and has produced 19 CDs and 75 music videos to date. Not only does he sing and compose, he also arranges, plays, produces all his recordings. He is also a very established guitar and bouzouki player. Just listen to his “Hey Mambo” (own composition) and “Porom Pom Pom” on his CD to form your own opinion. He’s got his own unique sound and style. Have you ever heard such great rhythm and beat? It’s like a never-ending dance music. The beat goes on and on. You can’t help but get up and dance !
Robert has had 32 different #1 hits on Armenian-based radio stations, mainly in the Middle East, and now all over the Internet as well. He also performs at 75 venues yearly throughout the U.S. and all over the world. He sings in Armenian, English, Arabic, Greek, you name it! Just take a moment and listen to his “Different Faces Vol.19” CD. Among his compositions is Nina’s Beauty – a haunting melody dedicated to a very beautiful lady; N4R R4N, Hey Mambo (see if you can resist the urge to get up and dance here!), Never Leave, and Polors Nuyn Hayn Enk.
You can hear samples of some songs on Robert’s MySpace page: www.myspace.com/robertchilingirian
Once you’ve listened to this CD you will agree that Robert’s style is unlike anything in any musical genre. His motto: “Create your own…Be a leader…Never a follower.” How true!

A note of interest: Robert’s releasing an “International World Album”=2 0shortly. “Wait till you hear the stuff I’ve written for that,” he says. We can’t wait, Robert. All the best to you. You truly deserve it.
Source: hayfanat.com



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Pasadena, Calif. - Robert Chilingirian, the popular writer and performer of pop music, is a down-to-earth musician who simply loves to do what he does.
"I work hard and I enjoy it," he says. "As anyone who is in the arts will tell you, if you're an artist of any sort, it's more than pleasure, it's food for our souls. I just can't stop doing it. I get an unbelievable feeling every time I write a new song or album, or make a video. I just want to keep going and going and going."
Indeed, Chilingirian's enthusias m is contagious. This Lebanese-born guitarist-turned-singer started his career humbly, as a young teen who just wanted to play the guitar, eventually becoming a well-known musician.
Young heart, big dreams
"I started playing the guitar at first,"20Chilingirian recalls. "When I was 16 years old, I started taking private lessons and decided that music was what I wanted to pursue. I would practice 10 hours a day and wanted to be a jazz guitarist. At that time I was already playing everything I could by ear, because I didn't know how to read notes yet." His natural talent would lead him into the world of Armenian singers, many of whom would take him on tour all around the world.
"So in the beginning, while I was doing all this, I was playing with all the Armenian singers like Adiss, Paul, and Harout, just to make money on the weekends, but at the same time I was serious about becoming a jazz musician," Chilingirian continues. "So after high school I went to the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music for two years and then to Long Island University. I was completely focused on jazz in those years and I really had no idea that everything would eventually lead to where I am now. The problem with jazz is that there is no money to be made, although there is plenty of room for improvisation and expression."
In the late 1980s Chilingirian's life would take a drastic turn.
"In 1988 I was observing the music scene when I was touring with th e Armenian singers, and I noticed that they would all sing the same songs and do the same traditional stuff for years," Chilingirian says. "I thought to myself, ‘I don't want to do this anymore, I want to do my own thing and be original.' So I got20myself an eight-track recorder and started experimenting with my own material. I even took a few old Armenian songs and rearranged them and reworked them into something a little more modern and fresh. I also thought about making music videos because none of the Armenian singers of the time had any kind of music videos, and at the same time the youth had MTV and all the other music stations that were around. So when I finally made a video, it became an instant success because the Armenian community was excited about this new thing that they had never seen before."
Connecting the Old World with the new
"One of the real-life themes I talk about can be heard in my new song, ‘Polores Nuyn Hayn Enk' (We are all the same Armenians), where I try to show that we are all the same," Chilingirian says. "I notice that some Armenians from Armenia don't get along with Lebanese-Armenians, and the Lebanese don't get along with the other guys, and the other guys have problems with someone else, and so on, and I hate that. Every time someone comes up to me after a show and asks me where I'm from, I ask them, ‘What difference does it make? We're all the same people, and if you're at my show and you like t he music and you like me, we can talk and be good friends and it shouldn't matter where you're from. Wherever I'm from isn't going to change who I am, so we should be able to just talk to each other and take it from there.' So the song title is ab out that because we are all one, we're the same."
Chilingirian has also ventured into Latin music. Being influenced by the music of Paco De Lucia and Carlos Gardel, he wrote the song "N4R R4N," which won Best Latin Artist at the 2008 Hollywood Music Awards. "I just sent in the song and I ended up getting nominated," Chilingirian says. "I wasn't expecting to win, so I really didn't want to go, but at the last minute I decided to go to the awards ceremony, just to have a drink and mingle. I was standing by the bar, and when the Latin category came up and they announced my name as the winner, I thought to myself, ‘This is wrong, there must be a mistake. So as I was walking to the stage, thinking that something was wrong and that they would fix the announcement, they started playing my song, so I knew it was right and that I had won. It completely took me by surprise."
But Chilingirian isn't stopping there. He's planning to release an album featuring songs in several languages. "I'm doing a world album right now, which will be mostly in Spanish with some songs in English, Italian, Greek, and French," he says. "I want to ride the momentum of this award and get a=2 0world album out in early 2009."
Keeping the energy alive
"I give out CDs like crazy," Chilingirian says. "I don't even sell them anymore. As an art - Armenian Reporte

Robert churns out hit after hit. No wonder he’s an International Superstar, having won 2 Prestigious Awards in November (see ar ticle: Success Story Robert Chilingirian).
Robert has been singing and producing his own albums since 1988 and over those years his musical style has changed tremendously. From standard ballads like “Mnatzi Menag” which was a 1994 hit to his latest super upbeat tempo “Hade Kale.” This is Robert at his best: 20 years on and still going strong!

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