Born in 1955, Irma Sokhadze was the daughter of a well-to-do family. Her father, a scientist, and her mother, a linguist, introduced her to music when she was just two years old, when she sang at home with her parents and brother. When she was five, she made her first appearance on television, singing one song in Italian and another in Georgian. Two years later, she gained wide popularity singing the "Orange Song" in Moscow, with lyrics specially written for her by Grigory Gorin and Arkady Arkanov to music composed by . She became a soloist with the Georgian State Orchestra and went on tour to several countries. In 1966, she performed at the Olympia in Paris.
