Aynur DoÄŸan

Aynur Doğan ( born March 1, 1975 in Çemişgezek ) is a Turkish singer of Kurdish origin.

Life

Youth

Doğan was born in the province of Tunceli in eastern Anatolia. Your education she graduated in Tunceli, later in Elazig. The early nineties she moved with her family to Istanbul, where she graduated high school.

Career

She says she had only learned music in Istanbul - " in the village where you grow up with sheep and lambs " there had been none. On the advice of friends, she struck ultimately an artistic career. Doğan took lessons at the music school for Arif SAG Bağlama ( " saz " ) and reading music in Istanbul. Later she studied singing with Begüm Erdem and Aşkın Metiner at the ASM.

2002 came out their first album Seyir, she took part in concerts and worked on albums by artists and groups such as Metin - Kemal Kahraman, Grup Yorum, Lütfü Gultekin, Anjelika Akbar and Orient Expressions; also television and cinema she lent her voice. With performances at home and abroad, she sang in Kurdish and Turkish.

With the collaboration of musicians like Aykut Gürel, Serdar Ateşer, Kemal Sahir Gürel and Burhan Bayar then released in 2004 their album Kece Kurdan ( " Kurdish Girl " ), a combination of Turkish and Kurdish folk songs as well as new compositions.

Quick get to the top of the Kurdish music albums, Kece Kurdan has attracted much attention in the Turkish and international press. The English magazine " Folk Roots " did the album on its title page. Aynur's image appeared on the cover of a leaflet of " London Time Magazine " dated 21 March 2005 entitled " The Cultural Wealth of Turkey".

15 months after the album Kece Kurdan was published, it was decided the 6th Criminal Court of Diyarbakır to ban the album because of the same song to encourage women to go to the mountains and to engage in the ( Kurdish ) separatism. The sentence was lifted in September 2005.

By Yavuz Turguls film Gönül Doğan Yarası of 2005 was the first artist to live Kurdish sang in a Turkish film ( "Dar Hejiroke "). Also in Fatih Akin's documentary film Istanbul Hatirasi ( "Crossing the Bridge " ) from the same year they can be seen. Also in this year, it contributes songs to Kardes Türkülers album Bahar and Mikail Aslan's album Miraz (both Kalan Müzik ). In the same year her album Nupel appeared. The auteur Yüksel Yavuz used her song Kece Kurdan published in his 2007 documentary Close up Kurdistan.

In September 2009, Aynur Doğan was the guest of Ibrahim Tatlises in the music entertainment series Ibo Show. There she sang in a live broadcast Kurdish songs with the titles Ahmedo ( " My Ahmet " ) and Daw ( Turkish ayran, " buttermilk ").

Discography

• Ates Yanmayınca
• 2002 Seyir
• 2004 Kece Kurdan ( Turkish Kürt Kizi " Kurdish girl " )
• 2005 Nûpel ( Turkish Yeni Sayfa, " new page " )
• 2010 Rewend
• 2013 Hevra ( Together) ( German: "Together " )