Eyşe Şan

Eyşe Şan ( Turkish Ayşe Şan ; * 1938 in Diyarbakır , † December 18, 1996 in İzmir ) was a Kurdish singer from Turkey . She lived in Turkey, Germany and Iraq .

Eyşe Şan was born in 1938 into a family of Kurdish singers ( Dengbêj ). She made her first public appearances in 1958, but her family did not accept this. She then separated from her husband and brothers and initially sang in Turkish for a radio station in Gaziantep . She earned her living as a seamstress. She later recorded numerous songs in Kurdish in Istanbul, which became a great commercial success. Due to an unfavorable contract for her, she hardly benefited from the proceeds from the records.

Her songs dealt with political as well as personal issues, e.g. B. Derdê Hewiyê (The Suffering of a Second Wife ) or Qederê Yar (The Fate of a Lover ). After her brothers forbade her to have any contact with the family, she was not allowed to visit her mother until she died. She then dedicated the song Xerîbim Daye (I am alone, mother) to her.

After the military coup in Turkey in 1971 , her songs were banned and she lived in Munich for three years , where her only daughter Shahnaz died. She then withdrew for several years and only appeared again in 1979 in Iraqi Kurdistan with other Kurdish artists such as Mihemed Arif Cizîrî , Îsa Berwarî , Gulbihar , Tehsîn Teha and Nesrîn Serwan . After returning to Turkey, she worked in a post office in İzmir. She died on 18 December 1996 at a cancer .

On December 18, 2008, the 7500 square meter Eyşe Şan Park was opened in her honor in Diyarbakır between the Kayapınar and Bağlar districts. The roof top of a café in the park is adorned with a larger than life portrait photo of Eyşe Şan. The events organized in the park are intended to pay tribute to the Dengbêj tradition in the form of the singer and also to symbolize Kurdish culture and Kurdish political resistance as a whole.

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Individual evidence

^ Muna Güvenç: Constructing Narratives of Kurdish Nationalism in the Urban Space of Diyarbakir, Turkey. In: Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, autumn 2011, pp. 25–40, here p. 34

personal data
SURNAME	Şan, Eyşe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Şan, Ayşe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kurdish musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1938
PLACE OF BIRTH	Diyarbakır
DATE OF DEATH	December 18, 1996
Place of death	İzmir

[1] Muna Güvenç: Constructing Narratives of Kurdish Nationalism in the Urban Space of Diyarbakir, Turkey. In: Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 23, No. 1, autumn 2011, pp. 25–40, here p. 34