Kanye West at Tumo Center for Creative Technologies.
Rapper Kanye West, who is in Armenia with his wife Kim Kardashian paid a visit to the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies on April 10. The international superstar and 21 time Grammy award winning musician toured the center and got acquainted with Tumo’s extensive learning programs.
West met with musicians at the Tumo music studio, where the Pyramidz electro band and the TmbaTa orchestra gave an impromptu performance. After watching girl band Decibelle’s new music video and listening to “Hamayak Jan,” a collaborative track by all Tumo music workshop participants, West said he was extremely impressed by the talent at Tumo and how students had taken ownership of traditional folk songs and interpreted them in various styles.
According to Tumo’s website, West visited Liz Artinian’s color animation workshop, and the center’s animation startup Yelling Studios where, inspired by the young animators’ work, he said that he is dreaming of being the next Walt Disney.
Following his visit to Tumo, Kanye West joined his wife Kim and her sister Khloe Kardashian at the Genocide Memorial Tsitsernakaberd to honor the memory of the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
