Background
Iveta Mukuchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union) on 14 October 1986.
Iveta Mukuchyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union) on 14 October 1986.
She went to school in Germany and from 1998 to 2006, she attended the Catholic Sankt-Ansgar-Schule in Hamburg.
She will represent Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "LoveWave". She went to kindergarden in Yerevan. Her family moved to Germany in 1992.
She returned to Armenia in 2009 as she says by "parents" advice" and stayed in her home country despite all the difficulties she had.
Mukuchyan started studying jazz-vocal at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. 2009-2012: Hay Superstar & The Voice of Germany
Mukuchyan participated in the fourth season of Hay Superstar song contest in 2009.
She came in fifth place. In 2012 she participated on the second season of The Voice of Germany reality talent show.
She performed Loreen"s "Euphoria".
She was chosen by Xavier Naidoo to be part of his team Mukuchyan was the winning contestant from Naidoo"s team in the second phase of the contest, where the participants sang "Many Rivers to Cross". In December 2012, she was named the sexiest Armenian by El Style magazine.
In the same year Mukuchyan was featured in record producer Lazzaro"s single "Freak", which gained wide reaction in Armenian media.
2015-2016: Eurovision Song Contest
On October 13, 2015, Public Television of Armenia announced that Mukuchyan will represent Armenia at Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. She will perform the song "LoveWave", which premiered on March 2, 2016.
In 2016 Mukuchyan starred alongside Mkrtich Arzumanyan in the adventurous comedy Run Away Or Get Married, which was released in March, 2016.