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Eurovision & Armenia in 2017

A Little Background on Eurovision and Armenia’s 2017 Artist The Eurovision Song Contest hosts dozens of European countries every single year to perform and share their culture towards over a hundred million people on a single night. For some smaller countries, this is their sole chance to promote themselves to such a big audience. For Armenia, they have been participating since 2006 with over 13 different performances since then. Their top entries being in 2008 with a song called “ Qélé, qélé”  by Sirusho, a song about Armenian roots and love, and “Not Alone” by Aram MP3 in 2014 which both reached 4 th  place in their respective competitions. Armenia’s submission in 2017 was a song called “Fly with Me” by Artsvik Harutyunan, a Russian-Armenian singer and songwriter, who was 32 years old at the time of the songs release. After being born in Kapan, Armenia, her family moved to Moscow, Russia when she was 5 years old. She started to pursue music after being inspired by Whitney ...