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Washington Post, DC
Dec 27 2008
France's 'Sinatra' Honored
Singer Charles Aznavour, the "Frank Sinatra of France," has been
granted Armenian citizenship, Agence France-Presse reports. Born
Shahnur Aznavourian in Paris to Armenian immigrants, Aznavour raised
money for victims of a 1988 earthquake in Armenia and starred in Atom
Egoyan's 2002 film "Ararat," an epic meditation on the 1915 Armenian
genocide in Turkey.
In a decree granting citizenship to Aznavour, 84, Armenian President
Serzh Sarkisian called the tenor "a hero of the Armenian people."
Dec 27 2008
France's 'Sinatra' Honored
Singer Charles Aznavour, the "Frank Sinatra of France," has been
granted Armenian citizenship, Agence France-Presse reports. Born
Shahnur Aznavourian in Paris to Armenian immigrants, Aznavour raised
money for victims of a 1988 earthquake in Armenia and starred in Atom
Egoyan's 2002 film "Ararat," an epic meditation on the 1915 Armenian
genocide in Turkey.
In a decree granting citizenship to Aznavour, 84, Armenian President
Serzh Sarkisian called the tenor "a hero of the Armenian people."