Жан Татлян's lyrics & chords

Jean Tatlian was born in an Armenian family in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1943. He was the youngest of three children. In 1947 the family moved to the USSR, to the Armenian SSR and then to Abkhasia. As a schoolboy, Jean bought himself a guitar with the money he earned from painting houses. He studied guitar at the Sukhumi Philharmonia and wasn't 16 yet when was already earning money from concerts in nearby republics, in which he performed songs by French and Italian chansonniers. Later he studied in a workshop of variety art in Kiev, where at 19 ...read more