Talk:Music of Armenia/Comments

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Yes this article is indeed missing a lot of important points... but what I found especially strange is that neither Paul Baghdadlian nor Harout Pamboukjian are mentioned, and yet, despite being totally pop music & not intellectual in any way, they are two out of three most popular singers of music sung in the Armenian language (the third being Adiss Harmandyan, who is mentioned) Every year, since the 1970s (the 1960s in Adiss' case) and still going, thousands of Armenians (even mixed families) celebrate their weddings, their engagements, their children's baptisms and all other types of private or cultural community events singing & dancing along to Paul Baghdadlian's classic renditions of "Harsntsou", "Sev Acher", "Hye Aghchig", and Harout Pamboukjian's "Ha Nina", "Zokanch", etc. Either by playing the CDs or having them performed by bands that would never get a single gig if they weren't familiar with that repertoire. It seems to me like the person who wrote this article simply did a short internet research on the subject of Armenian music, and indeed ended up very short on information, due to the lack of information there is about Armenian music available online. I don't believe they have often (if ever) been to events where Armenian music is played. They are certainly not familiar with the role Armenian music plays for actual real-life communities and admirers of Armenian music. We need more real information about Armenian music online.