For the last 2 months Eva Rivas has become one of the most discussed personas amongst Armenians. Some consider her a talented singer, some only a good promoted marketing project. But let’s be honest, singing well is only half of the deal. One needs to pass a long way to become popular.
Here is the story of Eva Rivas.
Valeriya Reshetnikova-Tsaturian was born on July 13, 1987 in Rostov-on-Don. Later on she took the stage name Eva Rivas.
Eva has been singing since early childhood. While being a pupil of elementary school she used to sing at an Armenian chorus. Later on she became the soloist of the Armenian ensemble “Arevik”.
In 1997 Eva Rivas won the “Grand Prix” in the juvenile song contest “Scarlet Flower” (Alenkiy Tsvetochek), astonishing everyone with both solo and in-ensemble performances.
In 1999 Eva has received two silver medals during the Russian Delphi games of Saratov. She presented an Armenian song from the repertoire of Rosi Armen.
According to the official site of the singer, Arevik received the award of Ensemble of the Year in 2000, while Eva was still there. Eva left Arevik in 2004.
Besides a singing career, Eva attended a modeling course at the studio “Image Elite”, from where she graduated in 2003 and became one of the leading models of the studio.
In 2005 she got awarded with the titles of “Golden Voice of Rostov”, “Miss Pearl of Don”, as well as the title of “Vice-miss of the Caucasus” in Yerevan.

She was successful in the singing as well with receiving the first prize at the “Armenian Song of the Year”.
During the same year she got acquainted with Valeriy Saharyan and in 2008 started cooperation with the “Armenian Production” producing centre, with which she holds a contract up to day.
The Armenian audience has learnt about her with the song of Sayat-Nova “Tamam Ashkharh”, which Eva presented at the 4th national annual ceremony “Tashir 2009”.
Later on this video was shoot to make it more presentable to the public.

But that is just one of her songs. Her official website reports that she has been working on a CD that will include other songs of Sayat-Nova. Her producer continuously mentions that some of the famous Armenian singers like Ruben Matevosyan highly appreciate Eva’s talent and help her improve her understanding and presentation of Armenian songs. Another song that the Armenian audience has liked is the “Lanjer Mardgan”, with lyrics from a verse of Avetik Isahakyan.

But what has made Eva more popular is the fact that she is going to present Armenia at The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 held in Oslo, Norway, this spring.
Her song “Apricot Stone” won at the national selection. Some of the critics told the victory was not fair and she just turned up in the Armenian showbiz. However, she has a vast number of fans who really love her and want her to win.
She is currently working hard and getting ready for the promo tour. Eva is going to be in Greece on 2-6th of April, the dates of other country visits are to be announced. Overall she is going to visit 15 countries, which are Greece,  Cyprus, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, FYR Macedonia, Netherlands, Belgium, France,  Switzerland, Germany, Israel and Georgia.Eva is going to perform the second in the Second Semi-Final, which will take place on Thursday, May 27, 2010.

So, let’s wish her a good luck and do our best to see her in the Final.