- She is an Armenian soprano. Her grandparents survived the 1915 genocide.
- She teaches music at UC Santa Barbara.
- She was born in Lebanon, the youngest of six siblings in a family where they spoke Armenian at home, Arabic in the community, and English at school. As a teen, she moved to Canada with her family. She studied biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto.
- In 2000, she won Placido Domingo's Operalia competition. She later had to choose between a job at an engineering firm or a tiny role in a production of "Iphigénie en Tauride." She chose the opera.
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