One of the more perennially popular songs from Eurovision 2008 as sung by Sirusho for Armenia. She'd had an entire national final to herself, so that the nation could pick what song she should sing. This wasn't too much of a left-field choice as Sirusho had come to dominate the Armenian pop charts starting as far back as 2000.

In 2005, she'd won awards for best album and best female performer at the first Armenian National Music Awards prize-giving. She was also crowned with the heavyweight title of "Future of Armenian Music". That award for best album was for her second album. She'd only left school in 2004.

Her normal genres were a mix of pop and soul, although her 2005 album had been a departure. That had been a collection of Sirusho's versions of traditional folk songs along with some new songs in a similar style. Such was the delight in the country at Sirusho's recordings that there seemed to be a huge push to make her music go worldwide even before she was selected for Eurovision. Picking her to sing in Belgrade seemed like the natural thing to do.

The four songs the public were asked to choose between all had input from Sirusho herself. The public voted almost unanimously for Qele Qele (Let's Go, Let's Go). It gained 86.5% of the televote in what must be one of the biggest national mandates ever for a song at Eurovision. Its main songwriter is H. A. Der Hovagimian better known as DerHova or sometimes Mark Ryan. He's an internationally known producer, DJ, and song-writer and part of the wider Armenian diaspora having been born in Canada to Syrian-Armenian parents.

He was part of the Canadian group Temperance (under the name Mark Ryan) and he'd been writing and producing tech-house and Eurodance music throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s. Qele Qele came at a time when he was moving to Yerevan and back to his roots.

Its combination of traditional Armenian instrumentation with DerHova's Eurodance sensibilities was the winning combination that Eurovision had been craving for most of the 2000s, ever since Sertab Erener had won in 2003. Going into the competition, it was the fourth favourite. The staging was simply Sirusho taking over and giving us one of the ultimate hair, heels and hips performances that the Eurovision had ever seen.

The simplicity of the song is deceptive. The instrumentation weaving seamlessly around the percussive lead into chorus after chorus. Even the verses feel like a chorus the way Sirusho delivers them. It's non-stop desire and dancing with a smile. The three dancers could have been absent and this would still have been iconic.

In a year filled with whispers and gossip (and turkeys singing) about voting blocks, Sirusho and Armenia drew votes from across Europe. In the semi-final she finished second, beating the eventual winner into third place. In the final, she maintained her vote and put Armenia fourth on the scoreboard. That was Armenia's best Eurovision result in the three years they'd been competing and furthermore it was Armenia's third top ten result in a row.

Since her success, she's continued to release music and promote Armenian culture worldwide. She's won World Music Awards, duetted with Sakis Rouvas, released another three albums and married the son of the second Armenian president. In 2022 she was one of the founders of a charity set up in memory of Armenia Eurovision entrant Hayko who had died the previous year.

She's been releasing new songs and singles in the past year. This is a duet with her mother, honoured artist of Armenia, Syuzan Margaryan: Meghedi (Melody)