Aram Tigran

Aram Tigran or Aramê Dîkran (Kurdish rendering from Armenian), born Aram Melikyan , (1934 – 8 August 2009) was a contemporary Syrian-Armenian singer who sang primarily in Kurdish. Among Assyrians in Qamishli, he was known as Aram Dikran.

Tigran was born in Qamishli in northeastern Syria to an Armenian family originally from Diyarbakır. Both of his parents were born in villages near the city Diyarbakır. After finishing ninth grade, he concentrated his efforts on learning music and playing Oud In 1966 he moved to Yerevan, Armenia, at the time a part of the Soviet Union, where he was employed for eighteen years at Radio Yerevan. He left Armenia in 1995 and settled in Athens. He recorded 230 songs in Kurdish, 150 in Arabic, 10 in Syriac, 8 in Greek. In 2009 he was able to visit the villages, where his parents grew up in the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey), where he was welcomed in Diyarbakır

Tigran died in Athens on August 8, 2009, in the Evangelismos General Hospital. Tigran wanted to be buried in Diyarbakır in Turkey, an aim supported by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), on grounds that he was not a Turkish citizen.

He was married and had three children.

Albums Çîyayê Gebarê, Aydın Müzik, 2004. Zîlan, Aydın Müzik, 2004. Serxwebûn Xweş E, Aydın Müzik, 2004. Kurdistan, Aydın Müzik, 2004 Xazî Dîsa Zarbûma Rabin Evîna Feqiyê Teyran Keçê Dinê Ey Welato Em Heliyan Ay dilberê Daye min berde Diyarbekira serin Aydil Em hatin Heval Ferat