"They promised lands to Armenians in 1924, in the year I was born. It has not happened yet. I have been waiting all the time, and I cannot wait another 85 years," acclaimed chansonnier said.
A monument at California State University Sonoma bears the names of peace activists and visionaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein, Vaclav Havel and Pete Seeger.