Background
Lévon Sayan was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, in a family of Armenian Genocide survivors from Sivas, who tried to emigrate to the United States.
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Lévon Sayan was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, in a family of Armenian Genocide survivors from Sivas, who tried to emigrate to the United States.
He served in the French army in Indochina. In 1956 he moved to the United States, where worked as the President of the New York Association of Very Important Person hairdressing. He started a career as a classical singer in 1966.
Sayan recorded his first disc with Renée Doria.
As a tenor, he sang in "Rigoletto", "Faust", "Carmen" and other operas. Sayan is an officer of the "Légion d"honneur".
He is one of the founders (among with charles Aznavour) of the charitable organization Aznavour for Armenia. In 1989 he visited Armenia for the first time.
In 2008 Aznavour and Sayan were granted Armenian citizenship by the President of Armenia.
On May 23, 2003, during a special reception the president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, honored him with the Khorenatsi medal.