The French musical legend Charles Aznavour, at 93 years old, will finally receive his star on Hollywood's celebrity promenade, the "Walk of Fame", said the organization that attributes them in a statement Wednesday evening.
"The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that the legendary artist Charles Aznavour will receive the 2618 th star on Celebrity Walk on Thursday, August 24," the statement said. It will be located on the famous Hollywood Boulevard, in front of a historic Los Angeles theater dedicated to musicals, the Pantages.
"Charles Aznavour is a popular artist known throughout the world and loved by millions of fans of all generations," said Ana Martinez, producer of these ceremonies on the "Walk of Fame."
The one who was declared by a poll of CNN and Time in 1998 the "most important variety singer of the 20th century", before icons like Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Frank Sinatra, sold more than 180 million records and Writes 1300 songs in multiple languages.
Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian of his real name, born in Paris of Armenian parents and become one of the most ardent flag bearers of the Armenian diaspora, had received last autumn an honorary star like the one this time Officially cemented on the "Walk of Fame" next week.
"I've been in Hollywood for years, I've worked a lot in the United States because (...) the country of + show-business + is America," he told AFP. The author and interpreter of "La Bohème" or "Mes Emmerdes" is particularly popular in Los Angeles and its surroundings where the largest Armenian community lives in the diaspora.
"The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that the legendary artist Charles Aznavour will receive the 2618 th star on Celebrity Walk on Thursday, August 24," the statement said. It will be located on the famous Hollywood Boulevard, in front of a historic Los Angeles theater dedicated to musicals, the Pantages.
"Charles Aznavour is a popular artist known throughout the world and loved by millions of fans of all generations," said Ana Martinez, producer of these ceremonies on the "Walk of Fame."
The one who was declared by a poll of CNN and Time in 1998 the "most important variety singer of the 20th century", before icons like Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Frank Sinatra, sold more than 180 million records and Writes 1300 songs in multiple languages.
Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian of his real name, born in Paris of Armenian parents and become one of the most ardent flag bearers of the Armenian diaspora, had received last autumn an honorary star like the one this time Officially cemented on the "Walk of Fame" next week.
"I've been in Hollywood for years, I've worked a lot in the United States because (...) the country of + show-business + is America," he told AFP. The author and interpreter of "La Bohème" or "Mes Emmerdes" is particularly popular in Los Angeles and its surroundings where the largest Armenian community lives in the diaspora.