Discovering Armenia through Song

I first met Alin Demirdjian in a shared taxi bound for Gyumri. There was something about her that looked familiar to me – I was sure I’d seen those striking curls flash across my Facebook feed. I sat back, sipped my tahn, and listened to her chat easily with the taxi driver. Then I remembered: this was the girl who had just completed that “Meg Marz, Meg Yerk” musical project! I was fairly certain I wanted to be friends with her, so I waited for my “in”: we were both Birthright Armenia alumni. As it turned out, she’d recently moved to Gyumri (I had a new neighbor!) and taken up lessons in… barbering? As I was soon to discover, she was a girl of many talents and also incredibly down-to-earth. Twenty minutes into the trip, everybody in the taxi was friends with her. The driver was more focused on her music videos than the road, and we were all humming along to her songs…

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