Native name Վահան Կիրակոսյան Associated acts Detq | Instruments Vocals Genres Pop music, Soft rock | |
Born 21 December 1997 (age 19)
Yerevan, Armenia ( 1997-12-21 ) | ||
Vahan Kirakosyan (born 21 December 1997) is an Armenian singer and songwriter, known as a member of the boy band DETQ. He made his debut as a singer with the band in 2016 with the single Toy Guns. Before joining DETQ Vahan was a director of the Dan Clay Photography in Armenia. In 2014 Dan Clay Photography won the first prize in the photo competition organised by the Council of Europe for all the European young photographers.
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Since joining DETQ, Vahan Kirakosyan, along with bandmates Areg Shahinyan and Arman Petrosyan has released three successful singles, topping Armenian charts. In the beginnings of the 2016 DETQ released already their 5th music video, already with Vahan, called "Toy Guns" which many people call Detq's hymn of peace. The song is dedicated to all the victims of the Nagorno-Karabakh War and to all the soldiers who died for their motherland.
Early life
Vahan was born in Yerevan. He is the son of Anush Kirakosyan and Armen Kirakosyan. His mother is a musician playing Qanun (instrument) Vahan Kirakosyan was raised in a family, for whom music and arts were in the high level.
As a child, Vahan loved dancing, playing bascetball, singing and poetry. At the age of 9 Vahan got the second prize at the pan-Armenian poetry competition in Armenia. In 2015, when he already got 2 music school successful graduation diplomas (Department of guitar and department of international dances) and still studying in TUMO Center for creative technologies, Vahan got accepted to Russian-Armenian Slavonic University, BA of Linguistics. At that time Vahan could fluently speak and understand 4 languages (Armenian, Russian, English, Spanish) and was learning two more: Polish and French.
Vahan Kirakosyan was also working in the field of youth. 2015-2016 he was a board member as a creative manager at the European Youth Parliament Armenia.
In 2016 Vahan Kirakosyan joined Detq boy band.
Detq
Detq (in Armenian: ԴԵՏՔ) are an Armenian pop-soft rock boy band based in Yerevan in 2015.The band is composed of Vahan Kirakosyan, Arman Petrosyan, Areg Shahinyan, and previously, Nerses Avetisyan who left the group in 2015. Detq signed with AMP Production. The first single "Forevermore" and the following one "Shushi" brought Detq a pan-Armenian success by mainly social media. The songs topped the Armenian (and not only) charts for a long time and were on air in almost all the Armenian TV Channels and Radio stations.
After a very short time, in September 2015 Detq released their new single called "Tranq #Yerevan". In the following year Detq celebrated their 1st anniversary already with a new member Vahan Kirakosyan. Another wave of success was with their new single "Toy guns" which was dedicated to all the soldiers of the world who protect their motherland.
According to social media views, likes and comments, during their one-year-history Detq has thousands of fans all over Armenia and worldwide making them the most famous boysband in Armenian music history.