Many, many years ago,
When I was a little child,
Mama told me you should know,
Our world is cruel and wild,
But to make your way through cold and heat
Love is all that you need
I believed her every word,
More than anything I heard
But I was too scared to lose my fun
I began to cry a lot
And she gave me apricots
Kisses of the earth, fruits of the sun
Apricot stone,
Hidden in my hand
Given back to me
From the motherland
Apricot stone,
I will drop it down
In the frozen ground
I’ll just let it make its round
Apricot stone,
Hidden in my hand
Given back to me
From the motherland
Apricot stone
Now I see the northern stars
Shining brightly in the storm
And I’ve got an avatar
Of my love to keep me warm
Now I’m not afraid of violent winds
They may blow
They can’t win
May the winter stay away
From my harvest night and day
May God bless and keep my cherished fruit
Grow my tree up to the sky,
Once I waved my home goodbye
I just wanna go back to my roots
Apricot stone,
Hidden in my hand
Given back to me
From the motherland
Apricot stone,
I will drop it down
In the frozen ground
I’ll just let it make its round
Apricot stone,
Hidden in my hand (Hidden in my hand)
Given back to me (Given, given back to me )
From the motherland
Apricot stone
Hidden in my hand
Given back to me
From the motherland
Apricot stone
Prevod na srpski: Koštica kajsije
I LOVE THIS SONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I LOVE U ARMENIA I HOPE WINER
eva rivas for ever
Turkısh Delight, 🙁
but our (i am from azerbaijan) 12 points go to turkey!
amenia is ever 1 st from the end!!!!!!!
Apricot Stone is a good song and it left a good impression. Hopefully it convinced many people to vote for Armenia for the Eurovision contest.
Eva’s hair is wonderfull..I wish I had my hair like hers..;)
Our neighbour, your song is great! Eva is very beautifull and I hope you receive the deserved 😉 We love you and 12 points go to Armenia from Turkey.. Good Luck ::)) 💡
terrible song. I don’t like it.
Thanks a lot to our neighbour Turkey!We-Armenia and Turkey will be in Top 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
EVA-OUR BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!
thank you Spring.
our beauty -Eva Rivas !
Spring.plz, upload these pics)
gorgeous Eva Rivas
But lyrics are not good idea.. maybe would be different than.. But good luck.. ı hope you will be 2nd.. :)) 💡 ::?:
Good luck neighbor…10 points from Turkey maybe 12 points :))
The Most Beautiful Woman in Eurovision 2010
Eva Rivas, who is nominated as the most beautiful woman in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, may well be the winner of this year’s competition taking it to Armenia for 2011.
Here is why.
Describing her first rehearsal in Oslo OIKOTIMES’ writer Lilian Brunell writes how she was impress by the song Apricot Stone that Rivas will sing presenting Armenia. Brunell writes referring to Apricot Stone: “it’s a song that goes immediately into my hearth and it feels so genuine! I think this entry will apply to the TV-viewers. An apricot will of course be on the stage.” Then she continues that “Eva has already been appointed as the most beautiful woman in ESC 2010 and she definitely has the tallest hair of the contest.”
Considering that Eva Rivas has been leading in charts, she may have a great shot at becoming the 2010 Eurovision winner.
We reported earlier that there will a little magic on the state and that an apricot stone (bit) will become a tree. On May 27 she will have her first performance.
After Eva’s rehearsal the director of the Armenian delegation Diana Mntatsakanyan said that she was very pleased by Rivas’ performance. Eva said her song is about a love of motherland and not only about love to Armenia, but rather a love toward a motherland for any person in the world.
Eva had a very interesting promotion tour leading to the Eurovision 2010 contest. She traveled in many European countries and wherever she went she planted an Apricot tree as a reminder for her song and a symbol of Armenia. Apricot has a national symbolic meaning in Armenia.
Today reports surfaced in the Armenian media that a famous duduk player Jivan Gasparian will play the duduk part during Eva’s performance. Gasparian’s performance has been featured in such Holliwood movies like Gladiator and Seige. Has been nominated for Grammy and has raise a generation of Duduk players like Pedro Eustache, who is one of the lead musicians working with Yanni.
By the way, speaking of Yanni. Eva Rivas is half Greek. Some observers say her beautiful song may earn her the support of Greek voters as well.
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Eurovision: Apricot Stone composer says Armenia as close to win as ever
Less than a week remains till the start of the 55th Eurovision, and the Armenian team is already in Oslo, Norway, the venue of this year’s popular pan-European song contest. The first semifinal in the Norwegian capital is scheduled for May 25, followed by the second semifinal featuring the Armenia entry on May 27 and the grand finale on May 29.
Armenia representative Eva Rivas will present the song Apricot Stone, currently a leader on internet charts and an increasingly popular tune among listeners in and outside Armenia.
The song’s composer Armen Martirosyan, a well-known jazzman and conductor of the State Jazz Orchestra of Armenia, has shared with ArmeniaNow his impressions about the Armenian performer and expectations from the upcoming contest.
“Purely theoretically, Armenia has never been so close to victory as it is now,” says Martirosyan. “Her chances are quite high. The guarantee of success is in the ability to present the highly artistic work. As a professional musician, I find that the song is well ahead of all others both in terms of its contents and quality of material.”
The composer himself will join Team Armenia in Oslo on May 26 to take part in the final rehearsal and make his last-minute remarks.
Martirosyan speaks warmly about the performer of the song. He calls Eva Rivas a modest beauty who is very easy to work with.
“Working with her is as easy as pie. You can yell at her, scold her. She’s got no arrogant attitudes, at the same time she has an extraordinary will for victory. Perhaps it all comes down to her genes. That she has Russian and Greek blood in her in addition to Armenian only supports my idea that our people has long been in need of a little bit of mixed blood,” Martirosyan says.
Martirosyan says Armenia has already scored her first victory – beating stereotypes. For it is the first time that a Diaspora person, 22-year-old Rivas from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, will represent Armenia at Eurovision.
The author of the lyrics, Karen Kavaleryan, is also an Armenian from Russia, who has translated into the song the history of his life and nostalgia that an apricot pit symbolizes.
Next to Rivas on stage as backing vocal will perform Mariam Mehrabova, a promising Russian jazz vocalists, as well as Gor Sujyan (soloist of one of the best modern rock bands in Armenia – Dorians) and Tigran Petrosyan (a well-known Armenian singer).
“We are sending the strongest vocalists, because the idea of the song is to get an ‘anthem’ sound. The song is about the Diaspora, about getting back to the roots. One person cannot express all the emotions,” says Martirosyan.
Nevertheless, one of the surprises embraced by all Armenians will be the presence of Jivan Gasparyan, a world-famed master of the Armenian duduk, who will perform along with the Armenian team. A dancer invited from Russia will be the sixth participant (according to the Eurovision rules, the number of performers on the stage is limited to six).
“We’ve met a lot of obstacles on the way to Eurovision that were mainly of the same nature – we are a small country with a small budget and limited possibilities. But now we have all become one and this keeps us going,” says Martirosyan.
The composer believes that the song will conquer the hearts of non-Armenian listeners as well and says that this is the main mission of the song that will be broadcast live to audiences in more than 50 countries.
“I am sure that if someone not familiar either with our culture or history sees this beautiful girl singing this tune and gets what she sings about at least by 20 percent, he will become ‘our man’. We should give this person a thrill and let him listen through – this is our chance.”
http://www.armenianow.com/arts_and_cult … vision2010
greets from turkey, love the song-espacially the lyrics and the idea of the apricot stone ♥
Go Armenia!
I like the song much. I am sure that it will be in 5. Good luck from Turkey to the neighbour 🙂
GO EVA GO YOUR THE BEST ALL ARMENIANS R WITH UUUU GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Thanks
Not my fault.. For years this has been the case.. But anyway I’m sorry…I’ll be more careful..
ok ok
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Turkish Girl, calm down or will not approve your comments in the future.
Eurovision shouldn’t have anything to do with politics. At least not on my site!
Thanks for understanding
Your roots are where you are! Do not look elsewhere!!! If you would like to see under the apricot tree, but in your own country!! understand me??!!
is it First Rehearsal? Do all countries doing rehearsals now?? How exciting..!! I’m waiting for May 20…
I love those melodies frm armenia, from georgia, but i cannot stop dancin with germany and sing aloud with iceland.
but…why the danish singer keep appearing on my right?
Armenia First Rehearsal
Armenia 1st Rehearsal – As seen by Peter
Eva Rivas next up for Armenia. Her hair is so long, it’s almost down to her knees! ( I’m just jealous, of course lol)
There is a large apricot stone in the middle of the stage. Eva is joined by a male dancer, one man playing an instrument beside a rock, and 3 backing singers, 2 male and 1 female.
There is fabric on stage and the main colour is gold, though it does change in parts of the song.
I was curious how Eva’s vocals would be and they were excellent.
This really is impressive on stage, the camera shots are excellent, One of the best 1st rehearsals so far this year.
if Azerbaijani government violets for voting for Armenian song,
I can imagine what they will do if Armenia wins this year.
if last year their national security got involved into it, this yearI presume their ministry of foreign affairs will.I think they’ll exile the diplomats of those countrie who’ll give 12 pts to Armenia
WATCH Great success of Azerbaijan National Security (security, idiots and Eurovision 2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pefFixcusE0
hayer jan, taracek ays videon ev grac@ vortex karoxek
Four winners of “Hello Oslo” SMS quiz will fly to Oslo
The representative of Armenia at Eurovision 2010 Eva Rivas met on May 16th the four winners of the “Hello Oslo” SMS quiz and the best authors of the SMS campaign “Supporting Armenia”. Four winners of the SMS-quiz received from Eva the vouchers for trips to Oslo, for the semi-final and final of Eurovision. The first stage of the SMS quiz is over, but the contest is still in process. Those participants, who have not won the first stage, will continue playing till May 25th. The best 125 participants of the second stage will receive many presents from Orange.
« We are happy to be the partner of such a popular European music contest, and especially give our customers the possibility to become the direct participants of this big event. I am sure these young people will make unforgettable trip, and I am very glad to know that this prize is the reward for their knowledge in the sphere of music. I am also sure that with our joint efforts Armenia will get high scores”, said Bruno Duthoit, Orange Armenia CEO.
« We will do everything to make this Eurovision event a real feast for Armenia. The SMS-quiz gave the possibility to four winners to fly to Oslo, but for those who will stay in Armenia Eurovision will also become a big event”, said Aram Mkrtchyan, Orange Armenia Marketing Director.
On Orange initiative, Yerevan will also implement Eurovision’s FlashMob dance like 10 other cities which will host the largest FlashMob event in the Europe. Already a special Eurovision 2010 FlashMob Dance (Armenia) group has been created on Facebook where the tutorial videos of the dance are posted. The place and time of Yerevan FlashMob are for the moment kept in secrecy, in order to make the event as spontaneous as possible.
Moreover, very soon in addition to the official video of “Apricot Stone” TV will also broadcast a non-official video of the song, where habitants of different cities and villages of Armenia have been lip-dubbing. The lip-dub video, in line with “together we can do more” signature of Orange, calls to support Armenia all together.
“It’s not all. First time in the two biggest cities of Armenia Orange has initiated a public screening of the Eurovision, which will allow to support Armenia together”, said Aram Mkrtchyan, Orange Armenia Marketing Director. Orange promises that the days of Eurovision semi-final and final will become unforgettable for the habitants of Yerevan and Gumri due to colorful and various activities. More, Yerevan will host an unprecedented “Eurovision” concert with the participation of previous Eurovision participants from different countries.
Aysor.am
http://www.aysor.am/en/news/2010/05/17/rivas-orange/