Background
Her father was a tennis player who represented Iraq in numerous tournaments.
Her father was a tennis player who represented Iraq in numerous tournaments.
Her singing career began in 1968 which led to much success for she is known to be the "Warm voice of Iraq" and has been dubbed as Iraq"s Fairouz. Born in Basra, Iraq, to a family of Christian Iraqi Armenians. Soon after Hagopian"s career had begun, she was working with the most prominent composers such as Tariq al-Shibli, Farouk Hilal Khammash, Elias Rahbani and Ahmed Qasim.
Hagopian"s style of music was one of the first to renew Iraqi songs through the introduction of Western instruments along with singing contemporary popular music
She has held concerts across the entire Arab world, including Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar as well as across Europe in Uzbekistan, Russia, Germany, Bulgaria and Spain. Hagopian left Iraq to settle in Qatar in 1997.
She currently resides in TorontoCanada.
