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Ayşê Şan, the first public Kurdish singer
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February 5, 2007
Ayşê Şan (Ayse San, Ayshe Shan) was one of the
greatest Kurdish singer (dengbêj).
She borned in 1938 in Amid and died in 1996 in Izmir.
This is a translate from the Kurdish Institute of
Paris made about her when she died.
“The most famous of Kurdish singers in 1960-1970s,
Ayse San, died on December 18th in Izmir, after a
long illness. She borned in Diyarbakir in a
dengbej’s family.
She was still very young when people noticed the
exceptional quality of her voice. In a country where
singing publicly in Kurdish was forbidden, her dream
to be a singer will face many obstacles.
Radios, places of concert, music-production
companies did not take the risks to face prison, and
then refused to make records with her. Then in 1963,
the owner of a tea-garden accepted that she sang
each evening front of his çayxane, where people
spent their summer evening by drinking samovars of
tea. |
Ayşê Şan was one of the greatest Kurdish singer |
The success came quickly. In one evening, the
garden-tea won more money than ordinary in one
month.
A Jewish man of Istanbul, Albert Mesulum, who was
fond of Ayse San’s voice, accepted to take the risk
to make a record with 2 Kurdish songs and 2
Turkish’s also for not being accused of
“separatism”.
It was the first Kurdish record in the history the
Turkish republic and it had immediately a huge
popular success. It had been followed by many
others, and all these records were confiscated and
banned during the military Coup of March 1971.
Forbidden in her own country Ayse San stayed 3 years
in Germany.
Her records were constantly played at Radio Yerevan
and Radio Baghdad for the happiness of all her fans.
In 1979 she was invited in Baghdad to sing in
program of Kurdish music. Then she gave concerts in
the main cities of Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan
region of northern Iraq), with other Kurdish singers
like Mihamed Arif Cizrawî and Isa Berwarî.
These concerts had huge success and nowadays Kurds
are still fond of her records made at this time.
When she came back for familial motives in Turkey
she was one more time condemned to keep silent, in a
Turkey ruled by military regime.
She was the first public Kurdish singer in Turkey
and thanks to her extraordinary talent and courage
she was also the first she-singer to have a large
public in all Kurdistan and in the Kurdish diaspora
from Eurpa and Caucasus.”
For listening some songs of Ayşê Şan in MP3 format
from kurdistannameh
1-
Bave Seyro | 2-
Le Daye | 3-
Paye Qurbete | 4-
Dilo | 5-
Diyarbakir
northerniraq.info/blog
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