Nizamettin Ariç

Nizamettin Aric (* 1956 in Ağrı / Turkey) is a Kurdish singer and film director. He lived in Berlin since 1980.

Aric came in Ağrı to the world. He grew up with the songs of dengbêj (traditional bards ) and the famous Kurdish singer Dengbêj Şakiro, Gerabêtê Xaco, Meyrem Xan and Zadîne Şakir. In 1956 he moved with his family from Ağrı to Ankara. 1976 Aric worked with for the Turkish state television TRT in cultural programs. When he was a Kurdish concert in Ağrı 1979, he was dismissed from the TRT. After the military coup in Turkey in 1980, he fled out of the country and in 1984 he received political asylum in Germany.

His first albums he released under the pseudonym Feqiyê Teyra, the name of a Kurdish poet from the 14th century. In his songs he sang many traditional songs and such on the situation of the Kurds. He set to music poems by, among others, Cigerxwin. Aric plays the longitudinal flute nay, the smaller Hirtenflöte bilûr, the short oboe mey, the Kegeloboe zirne, the two long- necked lutes tanbur and Cumbus, as well as the drum dahol and the frame drum def.

His incurred in the 1980s feature film A Song for Beko, a German production, is called by the first Kurdish language movie encyclopaedias feature film in movie history.

Movies

• Bir günün hikayesi ( The story of a day)
• Klamek ji bo Beko ( A Song for Beko )

Music Albums

• Kurdish Ballads 1 and 2
• Cudi
• Wêneyên xewnê ( Helepçe )
• Çiyayên me
• Daye
• Zine
• Bêrîvann
• Dilan
• Diyarbakır