{"id":172321,"date":"2012-03-30T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=172321"},"modified":"2012-03-30T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:07:17","slug":"french-singer-met-distant-relatives-in-armenia-promises-to-return-to-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/03\/30\/french-singer-met-distant-relatives-in-armenia-promises-to-return-to-perform.html","title":{"rendered":"French Singer Met Distant Relatives in Armenia, Promises to Return to Perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French singer of Armenian and Corsican origin Patrick Fiori (born Patrick Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Chouchayan), speaking to journalists in Yerevan today, said he won&#8217;t have a huge concert in Armenia this time but he will return to the country in the near future and organize a solo concert or the musical Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) to audiences in the Armenian capital.<\/p>\n<p>During this visit, Fiori will have a concert at Mezzo club, singing the well-known songs &#8220;Belle&#8221; and &#8220;The Mountains of Armenia,&#8221; the lyrics of which Fiori wrote to the music of the film Mayrig (&#8220;Mother&#8221;) and which tell of his family history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last time I was in Armenia was in 2004. I have to say, the youth has become more beautiful. Being far from Armenia, I grew up with the same values as you. Being far, I wasn&#8217;t that far. After the period when upon Hovik Khachatryan&#8217;s request I became the guardian of the Province d&#8217;Arm\u00e9nie organization, I came to Armenia with my family. I met my distant relatives, who even my father hadn&#8217;t seen for 40 years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what in Armenia impressed him the most, the singer-songwriter said, &#8220;I was most impressed by the smile of a woman at Echmiadzin. I thought that she wanted money from me, but she came, touched a hand to my lips and said, &#8216;You&#8217;re a good man&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The last time I was in Armenia was in 2004. I have to say, the youth has become more beautiful. Being far from Armenia, I grew up with&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22959,40041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}