Ahmet Kaya: The Singer Exiled for Singing in Kurdish
Few singers are remembered as much for one evening as for a whole career. Ahmet Kaya is one of them. For fifteen years he was one of Turkey's best-selling musicians, a bağlama player whose husky…
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Mozart Biography: Life, Masterpieces and Where to Start
Few names in music are as widely known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In just 35 years he wrote symphonies, operas, concertos, chamber music and church music that are still played every day, from…
Zakaria Abdulla: Biography and Best-Loved Songs
For many Kurds who grew up around the turn of the millennium, Zakaria Abdulla was the sound of the car stereo, the wedding hall and the satellite channel all at once. An Erbil-born singer and…