Kurdshop – The singer Karapet Khacho, who was of Armenian origin in Kurdistan, is one of the most important Kurdish singers with his own songs and music and his commentaries on Kurdish music and songs. The artist witnessed the genocide of the Armenian people and what happened to them and the hardships and atrocities he saw are all reflected in his stories and songs as well as in his commentaries and interpretations.

Karapet Khacho or Karabet Khacho, a Kurdish singer of Armenian origin, was originally from the village of Kolhoza in Yerevan. But he was born in the village of Bileder in Batman. He sang Kurdish folk songs in Kurdish since childhood and later left this wealth to his descendants.

Karapet Khacho witnessed the destruction of his village in 1915 during the Armenian genocide. Along with their brothers and sisters, Ibrahim, Manushak, and Khezal, they survived with the help of a soldier.

The artist served as a foreign soldier in the French army for 15 years. In 1938, while serving as a foreign soldier in Syria, he married the daughter of a Yazidi family named Yevan in Qamishli and had four children. In 1946, he emigrated with his family and settled in Yerevan, Armenia.

Karapet Khacho was employed in the Kurdish section of Radio Yerevan and became one of the most important commentators on Kurdish music. This valuable singer has worked for Yerevan Radio for 55 years and trains dozens of singers.

The singer, who has faced many difficulties throughout his life, has sung many folk songs such as Ay Lo Miro, Adule, Chame Jazire, Khim Khime, and Le Le Dayke in his own style and interpretation.

He sang Kurdish songs until the age of 90 and died on January 15, 2005.