Manoukian’s first experience in the music industry was in 2007, when she participated in and won first prize at a talent contest called "This Is What’s Missing" an TV show production of the Alpha Television Network in Greece. A year later, in 2008, she participated in the national pre-selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with the song ''To Fili Tis Afroditis'', where she placed seventh
. In 2011, Manoukian released her first single named "Party Like A Freak’’ which became one of the biggest hit singles in Europe and has over a million views on YouTube. Following the success of "Party Like A Freak" which was nominated twice for winning an award at the Video Music Awards, Manoukian, in 2012 she released a follow-up single "I Surrender" which instantly became the summer hit of year. She added a new song to her music discography a few months later named ‘’Na Les Pos M'agapas’’. Manoukian also received the Gold Disc for the sales of ‘’Party Like A Freak’’, ‘’I Surrender’’ and ''Na Les Pos M'agapas''. In 2014, Manoukian released her latest single "XO" published by Warner Chappel / Max Music Scandinavia. The track was recorded in Sweden, Stockholm and its music video shot in Australia, Sydney with a successful music video and had great success in Europe, Asia, Australia and America. The collaboration of a team behind the likes of Celine Dion, Madonna, Selena Gomez, Ace of Base, Ashley Tisdale, Enrique Iglesias, Ola Svensson, Jennifer Lopez, GLEE and several others involved in the making of this production couldn’t have been better. She also reached number 1 in charts and won the ''Armenian Pulse Awards'' competition for ''Best Song In English''. In 2017, Manoukian broke into the music industry as a songwriter and wrote the music and lyrics for ''Palia Mou Agapi'' performed by Helena Paparizou, the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Manoukian got a Platinum Disc, as the song reached over a thousand sales. In 2018, she did a guest live show appearance for The X Factor in the United Kingdom and reached the front page of the newspaper The Sun and many more major newspapers and magazines, talking about the fierce stage presence. She amazed the judges Louis Tomlinson from One Direction, Simon Cowell, Robbie Williams and Ayda Fields. Her live show appearance got viral. She was also being discussed to represent Armenia in Eurovision Song Contest, particularly in 2015 and 2016. She discussed a desire to compete in Eurovision for either Armenia, Greece, or Cyprus. She won ''Depi Evratesil'' the third season of the Armenian national selection and was supposed to represent Armenia in the ''Eurovision Song Contest 2020'' at The Netherlands, Rotterdam with song ''Chains On You''. However this event has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Check her out here: https://www.youtube.com/AthenaManoukianVEVO https://www.youtube.com/AthenaManoukian https://www.facebook.com/AthenaManoukian https://twitter.com/AthenaManoukian https://www.instagram.com/AthenaManoukian http://www.athenamanoukian.com
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