Melian Gore

Gore Melian was born on 26th of April, 1987 in Yerevan - Armenia. He grew up in a musical family
and since the age of three he has been singing and performing on stages.
In 1993 he started violin lessons in the music school of Dunayevsky in Moscow and also became
the soloist in the school's choir. In 1997 he won the 1st Prize in the Pan Cyprian Song Competition
"Kataklysmos". Furthermore, again in 2000 he won the 2nd prize in the same competition.

In 2000 he participated in the TV programme "Afeteries" and was the youngest singer to enter
the finals. In 2007 Gore was chosen from 7000 and entered the semi-finals of 150 participants of the
International Singing Competition of Young Singers "New Wave", representing Cyprus. In addition
to this Gore was one of the National Finalists to represent Cyprus in Eurovision 2009 where he was
nominated 3rd with the song "I Wanna Thank You" which Gore composed by himself just like the rest
of his songs.