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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Vicken Tarpinian was born in Lebanon.
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He grew up with the Armenian Communities of the Middle East and studied Art at the American University of Beirut. Music and theater attracted him from childhood. His university years were marked by various musical and theatrical productions.
Between 1972 and 1975 Vicken took part in Theatre 67, a theater company created and directed by Varoujan Hadeshian, which produced works by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wild, Harold Pinter, Eugène Labiche, Hagop Baronyan and others… He was awarded first prize for the “Toute La Ville Chante” singing contest organized in 1975 for Lebanese Television by the French Radio and Television Organization ORTF ( RadioFrance ) .
That ame year Vicken also earned a contract as a musical performer on a summer cruise where he met Harout Bezdjian, an acoustic guitar player. Vicken and Harout introduced the genre of folk music as played by Simon &