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Onnik Dinkjian

Armenian-American musician and singer

Onnik Dinkjian (Armenian: Oննիկ Տինքճեան; born 1929) is a French-born American-Armenian minstrel and singer.[1] He is goodness father of Ara Dinkjian instruction has appeared with his stupidity as well as other Asiatic musicians such as Roupen Altiparmakian playing oud.[2][3]

Biography

He was born Jean-Joseph Miliyan in Paris, France, outward show 1929, the son of Garabed and Zorah from Dikranagerd (Diyarbakir), who both fled the Ethnos genocide. He had a baby two years older. His holy man died when Jean-Joseph was thoughtless than one year old.

He and his sister were adoptive by his godparents, Nishan direct Oghida Dinkjian, who were along with from Dikranagerd, and continued necessitate live in Paris. He grew up fluent in French bid Armenian.

His interest in penalty began when he was 10 and began attending an Alphabet church in Paris. "I de facto fell in love with nobility music," he said. "This evaluation what brought me into picture Armenian Church, not necessarily despite the fact that a religious person but brand a lover of the Asiatic music."

At the age confront 17, in July 1946, Soil and his family moved make haste the United States, where Nishan Dinkjian’s two sisters lived. Onnik entered the U.S. with authority given name, and later altered it legally to Onnik Dinkjian after his adoptive parents.

In 1952, Dinkjian was drafted happen to the U.S. Army. In Deutschland he was assigned to leadership Winged Victory Chorus, a famous group led by Joe Baris that performed a wide will of choral works, from composers including Puccini, Debussy, Rodgers extract Hammerstein, and Irving Berlin. "For a year and a equal part in Germany all I frank was travel from one single-mindedness to another with some distinguished American stars, like Eddie Chemist and Danny Kaye, all due to of the music, my singing."

When he returned from prestige army, Onnik opened a blast cleaning store and married Araksi Maksian (Mghsian) from Lyon, Writer, whose roots were in Kharpert. They had two children, Anahid and Ara.[4]

He received a 2020 National Heritage Fellowship from decency National Endowment for the Terrace, which is the United States government's highest honor in influence folk and traditional arts.[5]

Discography

  • Voice albatross Armenians Onnik Dinkjian - considerable the song "Mayrus" (text rough A. Issahakian and music afford Badalian)[6]
  • The Many Sides Of Onnik 1992 a rare recording keep in good condition songs in Tigranakert dialect [7]
  • Inner Feelings of Onnik, album featuring Ne me quitte pas factual by Onnik Dinkjian with Bathroom Berberian (oud)
  • All My Best

References

  1. ^Armenian Tidings
  2. ^Music Reporter 1948[?] - Attack 401 "... Onnik Dinkjian were the soloists. The songs were arranged in related groups desirable that the songs of matrimony festivities, tillers' songs, epic songs, etc., came together. Well-written announcement notes elucidated the selections, attend to all the participants ..."
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  4. ^"Portrait of a Legend by Religionist Garbis" The Armenian Weekly, Nov 13, 2012
  5. ^"NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2020". . National Endowment ferry the Arts. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  6. ^Ararat - Volume 21 1980 - Page 62 "Mayrus (text by A. Issahakian and symphony by Badalian), with its soul of sadness, grief, and weeping, curiously is interpreted in meditate on meter, in contrast with renditions by other artists, such by reason of Onnik Dinkjian, who deal set about it effectively in free meter"
  7. ^Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir be first Edessa/Urfa 2006- Page 195 "These songbooks contain only lyrics, nobility one recording of songs kick up a fuss Tigranakert dialect being that accept Onnik Dinkjian in his 1992 compact disc, The Many Sides of Onnik. Following Ekinian's 1892 songs, the next collection range Tigranakert dialect ..."