Lévon Sayan
Lévon Sayan or Levon Sanosyan (Armenian: Լևոն Սայան, born December 17, 1934) is a French-Armenian impresario and producer, as well as an operatic tenor.
Biography
Lévon Sayan was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, in a family of Armenian Genocide survivors from Sivas, who tried to emigrate to the US. He served in the French army in Indochina. In 1956 he moved to the US, where worked as the President of the New York Association of VIP 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.
He has also been the impresario of Liza Minnelli, Plácido Domingo and Mario del Monaco, and he is widely known as the long-time (since 1964) impresario and friend of Charles Aznavour.
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.
Sayan
Sayan may refer to:
See also
Sayan, Bali
Sayan is a village about 5 km (3 mi) west of the town of Ubud, in Bali, Indonesia. It sits on a ridge along the Ayung River.
A photograph of a typical sayan house compound of the past is found in Wijaya's architectural history of Bali
References
Coordinates: 8°30′1.77″S 115°14′29.62″E / 8.5004917°S 115.2415611°E / -8.5004917; 115.2415611
Victor Ostrovsky
Victor John Ostrovsky is an author and a former katsa (case officer) for the Israeli Mossad (foreign intelligence service). He authored two non-fiction books about his service with the Mossad: By Way of Deception, a New York Times No. 1 bestseller in 1990, and The Other Side of Deception several years later.
Biography
Victor Ostrovsky was born in Edmonton, Alberta on November 28, 1949, and moved to Israel at the age of five.
His mother, a gymnastics teacher by trade, was born in Mandatory Palestine. She volunteered with the British Army (ITS) during World War II, and drove trucks across the desert from Cairo to Jerusalem. After the war, she joined the Haganah (Israel's underground) to fight for Israel's independence from the British mandate.
Ostrovsky’s father served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II as a tail gunner on a Lancaster bomber, taking part in more than twenty missions over Germany. His plane was shot down over Germany, but he managed to escape and return to active service. After the war, he joined the Israeli military to fight in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, rising to command Sde Dov, an Air Force base in Israel.
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