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In Memory Of:
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Charlie "Sako" Sahagian
1960 - 2007
Charlie
"Sako" Sahagian, son of Khoren Sahagian (Armenia) and Alice Koyoumjian
(Turkey) was born on December 16, 1960 in Detroit, Michigan. He was
educated in Detroit and served in the United States Army Reserves
(1978) at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Charlie was a gifted musician
and entertainer (concerts, churches, parties, weddings, adult day care
centers, volunteering.) He had a great love and respect for the elderly
and for children. Charlie was a missionary to Uganda East Africa,
Rwanda, Berundi, Peru and Mexico. He was a member of the Rock Four
Square Church in Highland Park, CA and the Church of the Living World
of God in Los Angeles, CA. Charlie is survived by his loving mother,
Alice Sahagian, wonderful brother and sister-in-law, Johnny and
Christina Sahagian, beloved nephews, Khoren and Aram Sahagian, and
devoted friends and fellow missionaries John and Rosemarie Kizirian,
Tony Nicholas, Kleon Dovan, Robin Hutchens and Vincent Di Paolo and all
who could not be mentioned. Charlie "Sako" Sahagian will be missed by
all.
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Yervant Khamtrashyan
1947 - 2003
Yarvand
Khamtrashyan was born in Syria in 1947. He became interested in music
during his junior high school years. His very first public performance
was in 1962, at the age of fifteen in his hometown and place of birth,
Al Haskah, Syria. At the age of seventeen, his family moved to Armenia.
He graduated from college in 1971 and began working in a theatrical
compan, but singing was his real passion. For the next several years he
worked with the theatre by day, and was a musician by night. He married
in 1972 and after the collapse of the USSR in 1990 he immigrated to Los
Angeles, California with his wife and four children: Joseph, Sevak,
Avo, and Noiem. Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles, he met Wael
Kakish and began performing with him locally. He became part of Kan
Zaman when it was formed four years later. With Kan Zaman he carried on
his dream to perform authentic Arabic music for an appreciative
audience. He had a great voice and became known in the community as the
Farid el-Atrache of America. He was featured at the Kan Zaman concert
on June 2, 2002 singing
Khatama Assabru to his own Ud accompaniment. He passed away on January 1, 2003.
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Kan Zaman
P.O. Box 661551
Arcadia, CA 91066-1551
(626) 432-8235
Copyright 1997-2008 Kan Zaman Community Ensemble
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