Qui?

The album Qui? by Charles Aznavour, released in 1963, became iconic in his career. It includes the songs For me, formidable and La mamma, which were greatly loved by the audience and became symbols of Aznavour's work.

Charles Aznavour, born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian (Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրյան), was a French chanson singer of Armenian origin. He was born on May 22, 1924, in Paris. Starting his musical career in the 1940s, Aznavour recorded over a thousand songs in several languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Armenian, Neapolitan, and Russian.

Aznavour became one of the most famous French singers outside the French-speaking world. He was dubbed the French Frank Sinatra, and the French playwright Jean Cocteau even once said that despair was unpopular before Aznavour.

Aznavour was proud of his Armenian heritage. From May 5, 2009, until his death, he served as Armenia's ambassador to Switzerland and represented the country at the UN headquarters, and in 2008, he received Armenian citizenship. Furthermore, Aznavour has a memoir titled "Past and Future," in which he describes, among other things, the difficulties his family faced during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

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