Nune: By Popular Demand
By Paul Chaderjian Sept 11, 1999 (Yerevan) - From down under in Sydney to the German city of Frankfurt, from Glendale "Little Armenia," California, to the medieval French town of Valance, from Toronto to Paris, wherever superstar Nune Yesayan performed over the past year her awed and inspired audience of young and old would chant "Nune! Nune!" in unison. In response, the slender, 30-year-old, drop dead gorgeous, modern day minstrel would sound back with her rendition of the popular 70s song "Nune. Nune." Around the year of Nune's birth, 1969, pop artists like Adiss Harmandian in the Diaspora and other popular performers in Europe and Armenia, made the song and name "Nune" a household word. From the suburbs of Beirut, to the suburbs of Yerevan, Armenians sang the lyrics of the song about forbidden love, unfulfilled desire and the deliberate and final act of a young woman being whisked away by her true love. Nune's parents gave her the nam...