Epress.am News from Armenia
People often approach singer Leyla Saribekyan in the street and mainly ask one question: what will happen to the end of Armenian national culture? The singer approaches that issue pessimistically and promises that, looking at what’s happening in the industry today, she can’t predict a bright future.
That which is taking place in the Armenian music industry today, according to Saribekyan, is a calamity.
In her words, people fill the halls of the K. Demirdjyan Sports and Concert Complex who have completely no connection with song and music, and more so, with art.
The singer is concerned that, even after the passing of law, state-level concerts are organized where famous singers come on stage and lip sync to recorded songs. [A law was recently passed in Armenia which prohibited singers from lip syncing during concert performances.]
Singer-songwriter David Amalyan, also present at today’s press conference, isn’t concerned so much with lip syncing. In his words, what’s important is not how, but what.
“Let them have something to say, let them lip sync,” said Amalyan, commenting on good lyrics being the key rather than whether a song is sung live or pre-recorded.
Amalyan added, however, that a singer who has good lyrics and sings well won’t allow herself to lip sync.
“After all, every good song is patriotism. It’s not important, that the word ‘homeland’ be in each line of the song; the song can be about love, nature, a thousand and one things, but let it be in normal Armenian,” he said.