User:Silva Hakobyan

Silva was born on October 23, 1988 in the city called Vaiq of Vayots province of Armenia, where she started her stage life actually at the age of four. Silva’s family includes her father Hakob, who is as well her current Armenian producer, her mother Virginia, a housewife, her sister Mane, an author of the music and lyrics of her songs, as well as many other songs, sang by contemporary Armenian singers, and her brother Edgar, who is a talented music recorder also responsible for the recording of all Silva’s songs.

Silva has participated in different musical festivals and competitions in Yerevan since she was 3 years old, where she has always won the first prizes and the highest awards. When she was 6 years old she started attending a secondary school in Vaiq, where she studied for 2 years. Then her family moved to Yerevan, and she accomplished her secondary education in the secondary school number 106 of Yerevan. Silva has been participating in different benevolence concerts since she was 7 years old: including the Zatik orphanage, the Red Cross Hospital, as well as different concerts delivering songs for the Army and many other occasions. After leaving the school Silva entered the Yerevan State College of Contemporary Band and Jazz Music, successfully completingher studiesin2008.

She has already got 17 musical clips.

Silva entered the contemporary Armenian show business in 2006 with the hit song “The Night”, which won numerous prizes and was accepted as one of the biggest hits of year. In the same year Silva with her song “I Like” participated in London in the BBC “The Next Big Thing” global competition and among around 2000 participants, was awarded the grand prix by the decision of the world known members of jury. According to the BBC rating Silva was named the best young singer in the world. In the same year Silva was announced The Best Musical Finding of the year in the course of the national musical competition.

In 2006 in Moscow, Silva won the prize of Musical Competition “Tashir”. Later, the same year she won a prize in Los-Angeles, where the song “Gisher e” was announced the best.

In 2007 the song “I Like” was named the winner of the Competition “Accord” then in September it was announced the winner by the TV program “Top 10”. The song “Verj” won the prize in the musical competition “The Golden Harp” as the best. It should be noted that the composer of all the above mentioned songs is Silva’s sister Mane, and the instrumental recording of the songs is done by her brother Edgar, with the exception of the song “Gisher e”, the musical recording of which is done by Martin Mirzoyan. The Numerous prizes and hit songs, however, did not keep Silva from winning as well the title of “the Most Modest Singer” given to her by thousand of readers of the contemporary youth magazine “Yes”. Silva’s first compact disc was produced in 2008, named “The Beginning”. In the same year Silva made clips on the song “Qone chem” and “Tnic Pakhel em”. The latter was a huge hit not only in Armenia but also among the representatives of the Armenian Diaspora all over the world. This song also became a “Hit of the year” during theMusical Competition “Tashir 2009”.

In 2009 Silva was shooting the music video on two songs “De Gna”, and “Poshmanel em”. In the same year, the singer was announced the “Best singer of the year” by the Armenian Musical Channel.

In 2010 she filmed clips just on 4 songs ”Sirelu”,”Khachik-Vachik”,”Siloyi Pare” and “Titiz es”, which received the prizes during various awards. In the same year, on the 16th of October, a 21 years old singer with her live band gave her first concert in the biggest Armenian concert hall “Hamalir” performing in front of 10,000 spectators, and then released her second compact disc called “Silva”. Then, in Los Angeles she became the “Best singer of the year” during “Armenian Music Award”.

In 2011, the singer gave a concert in Los Angeles “Pasadena Civik Auditorium”, that was held in the sold-out. This year, the singer had a lot of solo concerts in many countries, and because of this trip could make only one video clip on the song “Sasna Par”.

In 2012, a 23 years old singer made the video on the song “Ushacel em”. The song was loved by the audience, received many awards and became “The best love song” in Los Angeles on the radio “Armenian Pulse”. The song has more than 2.5 million views on You Tube. The next video music of Silva was a song about children “Mrutik”,. The song was loved by them and collected more than 1.5 million viewers. In 2013 Silva introduced a new style collaborating with Amani Music Group(Two Guys and MIC) and shooting a video on English song “Don’t Apologize”. The song was written and recorded by them, and the video was filmedin LosAngeles. It was a big surprise for the audience.

Silva’s last music video was made again on English song by the songwriter from Greece, which is called “Leave a light on”, followed by solo concerts around the world. In July 2013 Silva gave charity concert in her home-town Vaiq. In the stadium “Arevik” she celebrated 55th anniversary of the city with the numerous audience. And this is only the beginning. The more and the best is still to follow…