Artist or Performer? (Hunermend or Hunerbend)
When the word "artist" comes up in the field of music and song, we immediately picture someone holding a musical instrument or a microphone. In one sense this holds true, because in the end art and…
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Soundshop: The Photoshop of the Human Voice
Technology entered every sphere of human life very quickly. In many ways it was beneficial, speeding up the movements of daily life. Its continued advance has left no field in which it does not take…
Why Do Today's Songs Fade So Quickly?!
In an era when life has taken on such a fast rhythm that we sometimes forget what we did the day before, the phenomenon of becoming a singer grows day by day — to the point where nearly every…
The 10 Most Famous Kurdish Folk Songs (and the Stories Behind Them)
Some songs are bigger than themselves. They become memory devices — small audio capsules of a culture, a region, a generation. These ten Kurdish folk songs are the ones that nearly every Kurd in the…