Irma Sokhadze

Irma Sokhadze (, stylized Irma Sokhadze) is a Georgian media personality, singer-songwriter, composer, poet, television host, and pianist.

She performed and toured as an eight-year-old, becoming a child star with "An Orange Song" which was specially written for her. In addition to pop songs, she has specialized in both jazz and classical music and has composed songs to her own lyrics. For 25 years, Sokhadze hosted Georgian television programmes on music, including TV marathons to provide financial support for needy children and their families. In 2014, she appeared in her own special concert in Tbilisi, celebrating a career spanning 50 years.

Biography Irma Sokhadze was born in 1955 into a family of an engineer, her father, and a linguist, her mother. They introduced her to music when she was just two years old, when she sang at home with her parents and brother. When she was five, she made her first appearance on television, singing one song in Italian and another in Georgian. Two years later, she gained wide popularity singing the "Orange Song" in Moscow, with lyrics specially written for her by Grigory Gorin and Arkady Arkanov to music composed by .

As a gifted child, she attended Tbilisi's Central School of Music, matriculating with honours in 1974. She also studied piano and musicology at the Conservatory, graduating with honours in 1979. , which would find fame as an anthem for the Georgian national football team during UEFA Euro 2024.

She released her debut studio album შეგირიგდები (Shegirigdebi) on November 17, 2004. The album's first song and title track "შეგირიგდები (Shegirigdebi)", also known by its alternative name "დრო როგორ გავიდა (Dro Rogor Gavida)" became a hit in Georgia, being played on radio stations and later amassing over 1.9 million views on YouTube.

In 2014, she appeared in her own special concert in Tbilisi, celebrating a career spanning 50 years. , whom she has frequently performed and sung with throughout her career.

The pair has two daughters, the first was born in 1976 and the second in 1985.

She still lives in Tbilisi.

Discography TitleAlbum detailsშეგირიგდები Released: November 17, 2004 Label: GMI Rights Management Format: CD, LP, Cassette, Digital download, streaming