Zabelle Panosian

Zabelle Panosian (1891–1986) was an Armenian-American singer. She was born in Bardizag then in the Ottoman Empire (now Bahçecik, Turkey). She emigrated to the United States in 1896. In 1917, she recorded several Armenian songs for Columbia Records in New York. She is best known today for her song Groung (Crane), a folk lament for Armenian emigres far removed from the homeland and especially potent in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide.

She was a contemporary of other Armenian-American musicians like Torcom Bezazian and Amenag Chah-Mouradian. She was married to the photo-engraver Aram Sarkis Panosian, with whom she had three children. She lived in Massachusetts and Manhattan, among other places, and sang for the Boston Opera Company. She travelled to Europe in the early 1920s, where she met Komitas in France.[1][2]