Erik Karapetyan
Background information
Birth name	Erik Karapetyan
Born	(1988-06-05) 5 June 1988 (age 36) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Genres	Pop
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	2008–present

Erik Valerayi Karapetyan (Armenian: Էրիկ Վալերայի Կարապետյան; born 5 June 1988), better known as simply Erik, is an Armenian singer-songwriter. He represented Armenia in the 2011 New Wave international contest for young performers and achieved fifth place. He also won "Audience's Choice" of that competition.^[1] In 2016, he became one of the jury members of the Armenian X-Factor.

Karapetyan was born on 5 June 1988 in Tbilisi. In 2005, he graduated from Tbilisi's Dzabatdze N79 Georgian School, in which he subsequently studied violin, and after the graduation he transferred to Yerevan. There, he started to study in the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan until 2011.

In 2021, he won the first edition of Masquerade, the Armenian version of the Masked Singer contest.^{[citation needed]}

Erik Karapetyan has received these awards:^{[citation needed]}

• Official site Archived 2018-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
• bravo.am article
• armstar.am article
• armtimes.com article