Armenia's Ladaniva was the last act to be revealed for Eurovision song contest 2024 when AMPTV announced their (already rumored) entry on March 9, 2024 and four days later their entry Jako was confirmed as well. And brings Armenian back to the contest! Ladaniva is a world music duo made of Armenian singer Jaklin Baghdasaryan (27) and French multi instrumentalist Louis Thomas (37). They met in Lille, France in 2018 in a jam session in a music bar in Vieux-Lille. Jaklin grew up in Minsk, Belarus before moving to France with her mother in 2014. Thomas comes from a family of musicians and is a accomplished jazz musician. They started releasing music on Youtube during the Covid-19 pandemic and soon reached success first among Armenian community, later also elsewhere. Their third video Kef chilini reached 18 million views in a few months. They released their debut album in September 2023 and their entry Jako comes from it. Their music is a happy mixture of traditional songs from ...