President Serzh Sargsyan congratulates Raisa Mkrtchyan on her 70th anniversary.

President Serzh Sargsyan on Saturday extended his congratulations to Armenia’s People’s Artist Raisa Mkrtchyan, on her 70th birth anniversary.

“In your person, our people recognize a brilliant representative and a high-merited person of the Armenian art of singing and culture. You have performed the Armenian song on numerous world stages, for decades on end, and deservedly earned a high reputation and a wide popularity. Together with your colleagues, you have opened a new era in the history of the Armenian art of singing, and raised our musical culture to a new level,” President Sargsyan’s message specifically reads.

In the President’s words, Raisa Mkrtchyan’s pedagogical activities, and her mission to convey to the new generation the best traditions of true culture also deserve praise.