Müzeyyen Senar
Müzeyyen Senar ( born 1919 in Bursa) is a singer of Turkish art music ( Türk sanat müziği ).
Life
Müzeyyen was the third child of a peasant family near Bursa. Zehra, the mother should even have had a beautiful voice, with which she often sang to her children. It did not take long before Müzeyyen dominated most Turkish folk songs and was asked to sing at weddings and other festivities. At the age of five she developed after returning from a wedding reception, a speech disorder and began violently to stutter, which did not occur when singing and motivated them to take refuge in the singing.
When she was twelve years old, she secretly left the house of her father, and went to her mother to Istanbul, where she grew up in the Üsküdar district. In 1931 she was admitted on Üsküdar Musiki Cemiyeti, Istanbul 's most prestigious Conservatory and received instruction at the former Oriental Music School of Istanbul, where she met Mustafa Nafiz Irmak, Osman Nihat Akın, Selahattin Pınar, Yesari Asım Arsoy and other artists of classical Turkish music.
1933, at the age of 14, she was discovered for the Turkish Radio. In the same year she had her stage debut and took on a record. Countless appearances on radio and in concert halls followed.
Their artistic success gave her access to higher social circles, where it was now considered one of the famous and successful singers like Safiye Ayla, Selma Hanim, Lale Belkis, Nimet Hanim, Hikmet Riza or Feriha Hanim. In 1936, she was allowed to sing the Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Dolmabahce Palace. She sat down in the posh, then " French Quarter " called Beyoğlu.
Since the 1970s, the Turkish salon music was ousted by popular music. In 1983, Müzeyyen their last concert and the audience was almost forgotten, although in 1998 the album Bir Ömre Bedel was born, on the Müzeyyen Senar duet with Sezen Aksu, Ajda Pekkan, Tarkan, Nilüfer, Levent Yüksel, Sebnem Ferah, Kubat, her daughter and other sings.
In 2005, she was a protagonist in Fatih Akin's documentary film about the Turkish music scene Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul. In 2006, Sezen Aksu them as their "musical mother " before and enabled her to a concert in Istanbul Büyük Londra Hotel, in which musicians of her era, and her age made up the orchestra.
She was a role model and teacher of many artists, Zeki Muren, Bülent Ersoy, Sezen Aksu, Behiye Aksoy, Gönül Yazar and others.
She has a daughter, Feraye, which is also a singer.
Curiosities
Senar sang Turkish songs that replaced the Arab film songs in the synchronization of Arab (especially Egyptian ) movies. Most of these songs were composed by Sadettin Kaynak for synchronization in the length of the replaced Arabic song. Today, all these films are lost.