Luara

Luara Hayrapetyan (born on 29 September 1997 in Astrakhan, Russia) is an Armenian singer who represented her country at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine with the song "Barcelona", finishing in joint second place. Luara has won many prestigious awards like the International Contest Small Asterisks (Volgograd, Russia); In 2007, Grand Prix Winner of the All-Russia Contest Constellations of Volga (Samara, Russia); the I Prize Winner of the VI All-Russia Contest Voices of the 21st Century (Anapa, Russia); In 2008, Grand Prix Winner of Junior section of prestigious Slavianski Bazar in Vitebsk and winner of special prize "Lira" (Belarus); In 2009 qualified for the international final of "New Wave Junior" contest (Moscow, Russia).