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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Kurdish Music in Exile — How the Diaspora Saved a Tradition
For most of the 20th century, the most important Kurdish music wasn't being made in Kurdistan. It was being made in apartments in Stockholm, in studios in Berlin, in Sufi-influenced concerts in…