Below is the story behind the song. I think you will be interested to know about this song:
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As for Narine, here is the story as written by Mariam Matossian Setian, the singer of the song:
Our dear friend, was over at our house one day visiting us and you could tell that there was a burden on his heart. He began to tell us this heart breaking story. He was born in Iraq and his sister and husband and their children still lived there. Anyway, he told us how he has received work from his sister that their young daughter had gone missing. He was miserable about this, and his sister was always crying out in agony, praying for her daughter - a little Armenian girl - to be found again. They did not know exactly what had happened.
When I heard him tell this story, my heart broke for this family. And after he left that evening, I still could not get this story, this mother crying out, this little girl, out of my mind... and that night, I began to write this song for them. I decided to name the little girl Narineh (I did not know her real name), and I imagined her mother crying out for her, repeating her name, longing to see her again... that is how the song came to be... and now, when I sing it, I sing it for this family that I have never met, and also for all children everywhere who are suffering somehow...
~ mariam
Mariam Matossian Setian
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Thank you Ara!
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