YEREVAN.- Armenian singer and famous avant-garde folk artist Arto Tuncboyaciyan got Grammy 2011 award for Best New Age Album.

He got prize for “Miho: Journey to the Mountain” album together with Paul Winter, Tuncboyaciyan told journalists in Yerevan on Friday.

The musician said that album was recorded in Japan with poor technical equipment and using background noise.

Arto Tuncboyaciyan appeared on over 200 records in Europe and then moved to U.S. where he worked with jazz legends. He is a front man of his own Armenian Navy band group.