Armenia in JESC 2009

     Luara Hayrapetyan born on 29 September 1997 is an Armenian singer who represented her country at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine with the song "Barcelona", finishing in joint second place.
     Luara has won many prestigious awards like the International Contest 'Small Asterisks' (Volgograd, Russia); In 2007, Grand Prix Winner of the All-Russia Contest ' Constellations of Volga ' (Samara, Russia); the I Prize Winner of the VI All-Russia Contest ' XXI Century Voices' (Anapa, Russia);In 2008, Grand Prix Winner of Junior section of prestigious Slavyanski Bazar in Vitebsk and winner of special prize "Lira" (Belarus); In 2009 qualified for the international final of "New Wave Junior" contest (Moscow, Russia).
She has been participating in a number of contests and festivals since 5-year-old period, represented Russia and Armenia. Year 2004 I Prize Winner of the International Contest "Malen'kie Zvezdochki" (Tuapse, All-Russian Children Center "Orlenok") Year 2005 I Prize Winner of the International Festival "Childhood Without Borders" (Moscow, Russia) November 2006  etc. Since 2005 Astrakhan Regional Government granted the scholarship for the achievements in the fields of art and creativity. Luara has already recorded 4 albums: "Pochemuchka", "Krasnaya Shapochka", "Sokhrani" and "Shokoladka". There are several music videos that she managed to release. Luara has managed to take part in the National Selections for the Junior Eurovision Song Contests in Russia (year 2006, II place), and Armenia (year 2008, III place).
Luara dreams to become a Jazz Singer and her music idols are Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Lisa Minelli. Her favorite school subjects are Physical Training, Math, Russian language and History. She also plays big tennis and swims in the pool during the time of leisure. Luara's favorite animals are horses and she dreams to have one. She also likes travelling, learning new things in foreign countries and she has already done it to Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey, and Malta.
        Luara's favorite quote is Mark Twain's "When in doubt tell the truth" ("Following the Equator") and her favorite book is "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Luara and her brother are huge football fans, playing football on the grass in the yard with their friends. During the Manchester United vs Barcelona game their whole family jumped up shouting "Goal, Barcelona!" and this became the main plot for her song.
Luara currently lives and studies music in Russia.

Armenia in JESC 2008

 13 years old Monica Manucharova represented Armenia in JESC 2008 in Cyprus. She is  from Gyumri, Armenia . Monica studied in Robert Mkheyan’s group. She was selected by public via massage voting and jury.

Monika Manucharova was selected in top ten group but generally 200 applications were received. JESC 2008 took place on 22 November.  That  year Azerbaijan  also took part in the competition. Her song's name was "Im yergi hnchyune" which means "The sound of my song". She wrote the music for her song herself  and the author of the words was her friend Mary  Mnjoyan .
Monica  with 59 points took the eighth place. She was the second to perform. The winner of the contest became Georgia ...

Armenia in JESC 2007

      "Junior Eurovision" is very important project.  In 2007 Armenia debuted in the competition. As main candidates Armenia considered children from "Arevik" band: they were 12 years old, they wrote own songs (according to the rules of competition authors should be also children). Band consisted of 6 children - two vocalists (and songwriters), others performed backing vocals. They had written nearly 6 songs. It was much easier to work with these children than with adults.
      They were used to sing live, they danced, jumped around the stage and at the same time had no vocal problems as they had already some professional training. They had already seen a world, used to long journeys, they were learning Enlgish, knew how behave themselves, how to smile and speak with mass-media and listeners. These modern, European children  open "door to Europe".  The band was already known in Europe and in America: they could almost be considered professionals, and it was much better that Armenia would be represented for the first time by children who wouldn't be afraid of public and responsibility. They were used to pressure. Contest  held in December in the Netherlands.
     They represented Armenia with a song " Yerazanq" which means dream, and with 136 point took the second place 

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Dalita's meeting with JESC fans and with her classmats in Almanak

     Today's meeting differs from others . In this meeting participants were not only the fans of JESC but also Dalita's classmates and some guests from the ministries . Time passed really fast , because pupils made a really exciting show . And one important event took place too. There was a question and the one who answered to it won a ticket for the show. And that lucky one was Andranik Shirinyan- a biiiiiiiiig fan of JESC! Congratulations! :)
 Dalita also sang. And everybody enjoyed the time .

 

Andranik Shirinyan

 

Brandbooks of JESC 2010 and 2011 by Anton Baranov

 First of all what is a brandbook? Here is an information  about it.
Brand-book is a set of visual corporate standards and regulations, instructions for practical use of corporate identity in the daily work of the company. 

So instructions, set of standards and regulations - that's the essence of a brand-book. 

Components of brand-book:

1. Logo (description of a company's logo, possible options for its implementation, standards and rules for use of the logo in different situations, as well as its placement next to other logos and images).

• Dimensions (for different formats, minimum size)
• Indentation
• Major (corporate) color
• More colors
• M onochrome execution
• Inappropriate use

2. Branded font (description of the corporate font of the company and recommendations for additional options of fonts).

• Typing family (name, pattern)
• Additional font (recommendations for font options, when there is no possibility of using corporate font)

3. Business documentation (a description of standards and recommendations for registration of official documentation).

• Calling cards (personal, corporate)
• Forms (the official letterhead, orders)
• Facsimile form
• Envelopes (S4, S5, European standard)

There are also additional positions (advanced brand-book):

4. The client documentation (a description of the standards and principles of design client documentation).

• Proposal forms
• Contract forms
• Accounts
• Presentation 

After this information let me introduce the brandbook of JESC 2010 by Anton Baranov. It's  very attractive, interesting and I'm sure that  a lot of people  got it. Here are some parts of JESC 2010 brandbook :

Soon you'll be able to get more attractive and another piece of art by Anton Baranov - JESC 2011 Brandbook.  Here you can see an example of  it.

Who will broadcast on December 3??

     I think this question is one of  those, which interest the most of my blog followers....So, are you ready to know the answer? If yes, I have great news for you.
     This year  the broadcasters of Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be Garik Martirosyan and the head of Armenian delegation -Gohar Gasparyan.
  

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A Loooooooooot Of Fresh News

Europe little time left  for Junior Eurovision 2011 . In the capital of Armenia in Yerevan  on every step you can see JESC advertisements , posters and also cars and buses. All the counties chose their singers. And all of them are ready to sing on  December 3 but ,of course, there are some secrets about their performances as well as the stage design.

            Also few days ago a traditional Heads of Delegations meeting was held ,during which the running order draw was held. So, the  final running order was revealed, you can see it below :
1 Russia - Katya Ryabova - Kak Romeo i Julietta
2 Latvia - Amanda Bashmakova
3 Moldova - Lerica - No no
4 Armenia - Dalita - Welcome to Armenia
5 Bulgaria - Ivan Ivanov - Supergeroy
6 Lithuania - Paulina Skryabyte - Debesys
7 Ukraine - Kristall - Europ
8 FYR Macedonia - Dorijan Dlaka - Zhimi ovoj frak
9 The Netherlands - Rachel - Ik ben een teenager
10 Belarus - Lidiya Zablotskaya - Angely dobra
11 Sweden - Erik Rapp - Faller
12 Georgia - Group Candy - Candy music
13 Belgium - Femke - Een kusje meer

Another good news is that tickets are on sale. The tickets for  Dress Rehearsal that will be on the 2^nd of December  cost between 2.000-15.000 drams(AMD)/10-30 euros/.The tickets for the final show that as you know will be on 3^rd of December at 19:30 CET (22:30 local time) cost between 5.000-75.000 drams (10-148 euros).
                The next good news is that Junior Eurovision 2012 will be held in The Netherlands.

 And today the representative of Armenia- Dalita had a meeting with pupils from French school N119, which took place at the same school. The little singer was not alone , she came with her dancers .The pupils made great preparations and welcomed the guests with great pleasure. Children asked all the questions to Dalita ,which were interesting for them, and Dalita responded to all of them. She also sang a little part of the song “Welcome To Armenia”.In the end children took pictures together with Dalita. Both Dalita and pupils enjoyed the meeting .

So, Europe keep patience . ;)

Article by Ani Shahoyan