Kurdish music

The Kurdish music is based on an epic singing tradition. This will storyteller ( Çîrokbêj ), singer ( Stranbêj ) and bards ( Dengbêj ) distinguished. The most common song form has two verses with decasyllabic lines. Characteristic of Kurdish music are simple melodies with a circumference of only three or four notes, strophic songs with the same poetry and music at the end of each stanza.

Most Kurdish songs are love songs. Dance music ( Govend ), wedding and other celebration songs and work songs are also popular.

As musical instruments are the saz, Tembûr, Kemençe, Bilûr (flute), used duduk (oboe), Dehol ( drum) and zurna ( shawm ). In the Yezidi, kakaischen ( Ahli -Haq ) and Alevi religion the long-necked lute Tembûr be used for religious songs during ceremonies.

In addition to some typical Kurdish musical instruments ( Bilûr, Tembûr, duduk, Dehol ) are traditional Turkish and Iranian instruments used. In modern popular music electronic instruments, amplifiers and keyboards play a role, particularly at weddings and celebrations.

Iraq

Until Saddam Hussein came to power, Kurdish music was allowed everywhere. Gradually, each suspicious music was banned, whereupon developed a black market. The singer Ali Mardan was famous among Iraqi Kurds.

Iraqi singers are:

  • Zakaria Abdulla
  • Bahjat Yahya
  • Kawes Axa
  • Semir Ebdulla
  • Bilind Ibrahim
  • Tara Jaff
  • Karim Kaban
  • Adnan Karim
  • Kamaran Omar
  • Hesse Sherif
  • Heminderya
  • Xider Faqir
  • Qapal
  • Xelîl Singali
  • Dexil Singali

Iran

In Iran, Kurdish music, in contrast to other Kurdish media has long been considered politically dangerous and therefore particularly observed. The Kurdish music here is different due to the influence of Persian music. Most of the instruments such as Daf and Saz be used. The Kurdish Ahl -Haq practicing Sufi music.

The most famous Kurdish singers are:

  • Ali Akbar Moradi
  • Hesen Zirek
  • Kamkars group consisting of Arsalan and Hooshang Kamkar
  • Mezheri Xaleqi
  • Mihemed Mamilê (classical Kurdish music )
  • Nasir Rezazî

Kurds influence on the Persian music:

Syria

  • Abbas Ahmed
  • Abdul Basit Dari
  • Abdul Qadir Silêman
  • Adnan babe HECO
  • Adnan Dilbirîn
  • Adnan Seîd
  • Alî Sofi
  • Aram Tigran
  • Beha Şêxo
  • Bengin
  • Ceger Abdul Rahman
  • Ciwan Haco
  • Emin Sebri
  • Hisên Salih
  • Husein Şakir
  • Imad Selîm
  • Mehmûd Ezîz
  • Koma Melek
  • Merwan Sebri
  • Mesud Silêman
  • Mihemed Şêxo
  • Mustefa Xalid
  • Nizar
  • Nȗhat
  • Roni Can
  • Rubar Hesso
  • Said Gabari
  • Sefqan
  • Seîd Yusif
  • Seîd Xan
  • Seida
  • Selah OSE
  • Selah resul
  • Sero Pray
  • Sevo Derbas
  • Şevger
  • Xelîl Derbas
  • Xelîl Xemgîn
  • Xero Abbas
  • Xesan
  • Xuşnav Telo
  • Zoro S.Yusif
  • Zoya
  • Zuber Salih

Turkey

Kurdish music was banned in Turkey because of the language ban long time. Nevertheless, the Turkish public had Kurdish singer Ibrahim Tatlises and as Ahmet Kaya, who sang in Turkish, a high level of awareness. The certainly most famous singer from Turkey, Şivan Perwer, wrote his songs in Kurdish and therefore had a long time to live in exile. Kurdish music is deliberately ignored in the Turkish media landscape with few exceptions, and is limited to this day, especially the few Kurdish station.

  • Ahmet Kaya
  • Alişan
  • Ali Baran
  • Arzu Şahin
  • Aynur Doğan
  • Ceylan Avcı
  • Diyar
  • Emrah
  • Eyse Şan
  • Ferhat Tunç
  • Ibrahim Rojhilat
  • Ibrahim Tatlises
  • Mahsun Kırmızıgül
  • Mikail Aslan
  • Nilüfer Akbal
  • Nizamettin Aric
  • Özcan Deniz
  • Rojhan Beken
  • Rojîn Ülker
  • Şehrîbana Kurdî
  • Servet Kocakaya
  • Şivan Perwer
  • Yıldız Tilbe
  • Yusuf Harputlu
  • Zelemele
  • Rojda Aykoç

The best-known Kurdish groups from Turkey:

  • Coma Fakira
  • Coma halululu
  • Agire Jiyan
  • Koma Amed
  • Koma Bira
  • Coma Bedil
  • Coma Berxwedan
  • Coma Botan
  • Coma Çarnewa
  • Koma Denge Azadî
  • Koma Jiyan
  • Coma Rewsen
  • Coma Zerdest
  • Coma Hezex
  • Coma Rozerin
  • Hozan Emer Veysi

Armenia

Political Music

Kurdish music is the consciousness of a Kurdish identity and is therefore also used for political concerns. Young musicians who have joined the PKK shall include in the mountains songs. Her songs make use of the various sources and genres with the most popular musical and linguistic characteristics. Central in the texts of Kurdish guerrilla music are the desire for freedom of the Kurdish people and the suffering and lives of the guerrillas. For this form of the mountains and valleys, in which resides the guerrillas, a special source of inspiration. Many of these young musicians lost in the struggle against Turkish or Iranian security forces and their lives are celebrated, among other things through their songs as a martyr. Some of the most important artists of the Kurdish guerrilla music are:

  • Hozan Serhat ( Süleyman Alpdogan ) ( died 1999)
  • Hozan Sefkan ( Serhat Demirtürk )
  • Dibistana Sehid Sefkan (music group named after the martyr Sekfan: Songs such as " Denge Zerdest " )
  • Delilah ( Şenay Güçer: Songs such as " Zilan ", "Her Se Jinen Azad " ), killed in battle in 2007
  • Mizgin ( Gurbet Aydin)
  • Coma awaze ciya (music group: songs like " Oramar " or " Destana Zape " )
Tanbur Davul Electronic keyboard The Kamkars Emrah (singer) İbrahim Tatlıses
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