Kazakhstan's Alisher Karimov won 3rd prize at music contest in Armenia

Kazakhstan singer and participant of Superstar.kz project Alisher Karimov won the 3rd place in the international contest of young pop singers Yerevan Calls held in Armenia on October 6-14, Tengrinews.kz reports.According to the contest rules, each participant has to perform three songs: a world’s hit, a hit of his/her country and a song in the Armenian language. Karimov selected the world-famous hit In Memory of Caruso, Kazakh song Inkarim-Ai written by Tolegen Mukhamedzhanov and the song of Armenian singer Sona Shahgeldyan Harsi Par.A singer from Israel won the Grand-prix of the contest, the first place was awarded to a Ukrainian and the second one to a Georgian. “After the first two days of contest Alisher was likely to get the Grand-prix, however, the jury chairman had a right to add scores to participants, which he did,” Karimov’s official representative Dinora Yeshtayeva said.The winner of the Grand-prix received $10 thousand, the 1st prize brought its winner $5 thousand, the 2nd winner received $3 thousand and the 3rd place winner was awarded with $2 thousand. Alisher Karimov earlier took part in the 20th international contest of pop singers Vitebsk-2011, where he won the 3rd prize.By Aizhan Tugelbayeva