OT: Turkish Singers ** Was: Toby Keith/Tarkan

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

I think Tarkan got his own website, a very clean and nice site btw, I am

impressed! http://www.tarkan.com/ BTW, you can listen to Dudu there gang

 

I am not too sure of his music (until now), just don't get a chance to hear

too much Turkish music anymore (well since 1983 that is). Baris was one of

my favorites when I was in Turkey -- he was one of a kind! However since I

crave Arabesque, I listen to Ofra Haza.

 

Sevi

 

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Butch Owen [butchbsi]

Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:22 AM

 

OT: Turkish Singers ** Was: Toby Keith/Tarkan

 

 

 

 

> Here's a link : http://tarkanplace2001.tripod.com/

 

Glad you sent that. :-p

 

>

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[Guest guest]

> Not that many fer'shur .. most Americans are sorta isolated from life

> outside the USA. Tarkan (Turkish rock/pop Elvis class fame) is the

> hottest thing going in Europe .. he has sold gold records in most every

> European country.

 

I try to get my head out fromnder the rock from time to time. I'll

let ya'll know about any promising Korean Stars in the spring.

 

 

Generally speaking. Americans are NOT

> really international characters.

 

Thank Goodness - we don't have much to offer, what with Brittney

Spears etc.

 

 

>

> > (For those of you who wonder what the heck I'm talking about,

> Some other famous Turkish singers are:

 

snip...

 

 

YIPPEE!!! THANK YOU FOR THE LINKS !!!!!! I love new stuff - am off

hunting...

 

JenB

[Guest guest]

Hey Jen,

 

> > > Hey Butch!

> > > I can answer that as I'm a big Toby Keith fan...

> >

> > Me too .. and a few million other folks .. to include a lotta Turks.

>

> Yes, but how many Americans are Tarkan fans???

 

Not that many fer'shur .. most Americans are sorta isolated from life

outside the USA. Tarkan (Turkish rock/pop Elvis class fame) is the

hottest thing going in Europe .. he has sold gold records in most every

European country.

 

Many Americans like Arabesque music .. and Turkish Folk music. I hand

carried over a dozen CDs to folks during this last trip. Chris has a

good collection she purchased during one of her trips to Turkey .. and

after I took her and her girlfriend to a REAL Turkish garden party ..

that is, where the locals came to a guy's farm and we sat on the ground

and cooked chicken and lamb and ate the fruits and veggies from that

garden .. while locals played Saz and Cymbals and Drum and sang Ottoman

Pop and Folk songs, she even bought a Saz and learned to play it. ;-p

 

> I'm positive that he would be more of a success in the sates, but for

> the title of his album - " Dudu. "

 

The title would not attract folks. ;-p Problem with foreign singers

becoming hot in the USA is censorship .. American radio shows stick with

songs they want to promote. Generally speaking. Americans are NOT

really international characters.

 

> (For those of you who wonder what the heck I'm talking about, Tarkan

> is a Turkish pop star... )

 

And hotter'n a two dollar pistol. ;-p

 

> Here's a link : http://tarkanplace2001.tripod.com/

 

Glad you sent that. :-p

 

Some other famous Turkish singers are:

 

Baris Manco (RIP) was an international troubadour, a music ambassador, a

man who refused to let down his public when the parties tried to get him

to run for political office .. and a close, personal friend of mine. I

have a number of his signed albums. He was a kind, gentle and talented

man who will never be forgotten by the people of Turkey or by those

whose lives he touched in many other nations of the world:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/barismanco/baris12.html

 

Sezen Aksu, who is considered to be the Queen of Turkish music, launched

Turkish pop music at a time when most singers were singing translated

versions of Julio Iglesias. http://efes.com/turkiye/sezen/sezen.html

 

Sibel Can, a fox who is truly a classy Babe of the Bosphorus

http://sibelcan1.tripod.com/

 

Hulya Avsar, who volunteered to sing at a charity function I hosted in

the early 1990s http://hulyaavsar0.tripod.com/ I fell in love with her

when she invited me and a friend into her dressing room to discuss that

event .. she had on a robe, wet hair and no makeup .. and was beautiful

even under those conditions. I am still in love with her .. will be I

reckon till I go under snakes. ;-p

 

Perhaps the most famous singer/actor of all time was Zeki Muran .. a

famous gay who came out of the closest in the early 50s and was so good

that even ultra-right conservatives and the handful of hard-core Moslems

were his fans. http://www.zekimuren.com/

 

My favorite female singer of all time .. and another one I have been in

love with since I first saw and heard her in 1964 (she is around 65 now

and a FOX) is Adja Pekan .. the illustrious lady who brought movement to

Turkish lady singers. She still records and if you see her photos

(can't find one now) you would think she was in her early 40s. She's

much like Dolly Parton in that she has been " fixed " a few times. But

what's there is fine enough to make a puppy pull a freight train. ;-p

 

Omer Karagoz http://members.tripod.com/~okaragoz/ is into Arabesque

 

And there are many, many more who sing in many languages and are very

popular throughout Europe.

 

f you wanna hear some Turkish music .. just go here:

 

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~yildirim/musicturkish.htm

 

OR here:

 

http://www.turkish-media.com/en/music_sites.htm

 

> JenB

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com