[22], Today the Mexican Mafia prison gang collects protection money from Armenian Power, which has added the number 13 to its name as a sign of loyalty. Keyboardist Derek Sherinian is a well-known rock keyboardist who has played with Alice Cooper, Kiss, and Dream Theater, amongst others.

In France, the artist Charles Aznavour (born Aznavourian), of Armenian descent, has been known for his shows and songs over the course of decades. Don Pedro(Petros) is the first known Armenian in Mexico. According to a 1996 report by the Office of the California Attorney General, Armenian Power has strong ties to Russian organized crime. Since the beginning, relations between both nations have been kept on a rather low level and held mainly when relating to diplomatic issues on a global level at the United Nations. Armenian Power 13, also known as AP,[5] the Armenian Mob,[6][7] or Armenian Mafia[8][9] is an Armenian criminal organization and street gang located in Los Angeles County, California.

Notable performers of folk music include vocalists such as Armenak Shahmuradyan, Ofelya Hambardzumyan, Vagharshak Sahakyan, Araksia Gyulzadyan, Varduhi Khachatryan, Norayr Mnatsakanyan, Hovhannes Badalyan, Hayrik Muradyan, Valya Samvelyan, Rima Saribekyan, Raffi Hovhannisyan, Avak Petrosyan, Papin Poghosyan, and Flora Martirosian.

Descendants of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, originally from Western Armenia, and Armenian emigrants from other parts of the Middle East have settled in various countries, especially in the California Central Valley. The adoption of Christianity had its influence upon Armenian minstrelsy, gradually altering its ethical and ideological orientation. It is written in khaz, a form of indigenous musical notation. Andy Madadian is an Iranian Armenian artist, and Vigen Derderian is an Iranian Armenian jazz and pop singer.

According to the official FBI website: "The Southern California crime ring called Armenian Power may look like a traditional street gang—members identify themselves with tattoos and gang clothing—but the group is really an international organized crime enterprise whose illegal activities allegedly range from bank fraud and identity theft to violent extortion and kidnapping. Harout Pamboukjian is a widely popular Soviet Armenian-born singer that currently lives in Los Angeles.[12].

Armenian classical composers of Ottoman classical music include Kemani Tatyos Ekserciyan (1858-1913), music theorist Hampartsoum Limondjian (1768-1839) who developed the influential "Hamparsum" notation system, and Bimen Şen Der Ghazarian (1873-1913). [6] The last note of one tetrachord also serves as the first note of the next tetrachord – which makes a lot of Armenian folk music more or less based on a theoretically endless scale.

Soviet jazz was developed by Armenians such as Artemi Ayvazyan, who founded the Armenian State Estrada Orchestra in 1938. Notable performers in the vocal genre have been: Georgi Minasian, Artashes Avetyan, and Levon Sevan, as well as the aforementioned Elvina Makaryan and Datevik Hovanesian.

Nearly 100 charged, dozens arrested in operation targeting Armenian organized crime.

Armenian religious (or sacred) music, which is predominantly vocal, is one of the oldest branches of Christian culture, and was introduced after the Christianization of Armenia in 301 AD.

During the Soviet era, Armenian folk music was taught in state-sponsored conservatoires — in 1978, influential kanon player and composer Khachatur Avetisyan founded the folk music department of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan. Armenian-Canadian composer Vahram Sargsyan (1981– ) represents the younger generation of Armenian contemporary composers who is mostly known for his choral compositions.[15].

The earliest known record, from 1632, recorded the arrival to Mexico of an Armenian national by the name of Francisco Martín. Many artists also played the contemporary popular songs of cosmopolitan Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries from which the Armenians emigrated (termed surjaran or café aman, meaning cafeteria), on the Eight Avenue of Manhattan, New York City. Contemporary Armenian rock bands include Sard, Bambir 2, Vordan Karmir, Dogma, Reincarnation, and alternative rock band The Beautified Project.

This page was last edited on 28 September 2020, at 01:21. Armenian chant, composed in one of eight modes, is the most common kind of religious music in Armenia.

By mid-1997 the Armenian Power gang was believed to be responsible for a dozen driveby murders. Suzan Yakar and Udi Hrant Kenkulian were famous cabaret performers in Turkey during the 1920s and 1930s. [25], "Armenian chant - vocal music - Britannica", "Komitas - Armenian composer - Britannica", "Shoghaken Ensemble history on "Road To Armeania, "Kef Music – the Jazz of Armenian People", "Oud Great Richard Hagopian to Perform at Abril Bookstore on Feb. 22", "The Echoes of the Disappeared: Rabiz Music as a Reverberation of Armenian-Azerbaijani Cohabitation", "George Mgrdichian | Biography & History | AllMusic", Shoghaken Ensemble live performance, April 21, 2004, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music_of_Armenia&oldid=980716863, Articles needing translation from Armenian Wikipedia, Articles containing Armenian-language text, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. "[16], On November 4, 2019, Armenian Power "shot caller" Mher Darbinyan was sentenced to a 32-year prison term. [11] Bands such as the Vosbikian Band of Philadelphia were notable in the 1940s and 1950s for developing their own style of "kef music", heavily influenced by the popular American big band jazz of the time.

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According to some sources it stems from the Russian phrase "работники искусства" (rabotniki iskusstva) used during Soviet times, meaning "Art Workers", in reference to unions which specialized in new music composition. The unique ethnic composition of the Los Angeles area, which had a strong presence of many different gangs, played a major role in the creation of the Armenian Power gang. Alexander Dolukhanian (1910–1968) composed or arranged numerous Armenian songs, including the well-known "Swallow".

Armenian Power's status as a highly organized crime group rather than simply a street gang became apparent when Armenian-American gangsters were found to be involved in the 2010 Medicaid fraud case and the 2011 FBI-led Operation Power Outage. The music of Armenia (Armenian: հայկական երաժշտություն haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian Highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation). In the 2000s, pop singers such as Sirusho and André represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest. "Syria Civil War: Los Angeles Gang Duo Join President Assad", Armenian criminal enterprise dealt serious blow, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armenian_Power&oldid=984927842, Organized crime groups in the United States by ethnicity, Pages using infobox criminal organization with ethnicity or ethnic makeup parameters, Pages using infobox criminal organization with rivals parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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