Karapetê Xaço

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Karapetê Xaço , also Gerabêtê Xaço or Karabêtê Xaço ( Armenian Կարապետ Խաչո , Ottoman کراپت خاچو, * September 3, 1900 or 1903 or 1908 in Bileyder with Batman , Ottoman Empire ; † January 15, 2005 ) was an Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish dengbêj music .

Karapetê Haço was born in the village of Bileyder (now Binaltı, Batman Province ) to an Armenian family. He witnessed the extermination of his village during the Armenian genocide in 1915. Karapetê Xaço and his brother Abraham and his sisters Manuşak and Xezal only survived because a Turkish soldier said after the murder of his parents: Let us release them and allow us to go. His knowledge of Kurmanji and his talent saved him from murder.

At a young age he acquired a love of music and sang old Kurdish folk songs that have been passed down through generations. He was a mercenary in the French Foreign Legion for almost 15 years . He married in 1936 as a legionnaire Yeva of the Azizyan family in the Syrian city ​​of Kamishli . They had four daughters and one son. He and his family went to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and settled in Yerevan in 1946 . He wrote down his experiences of the genocide . Karapetê Xaço worked for the Kurdish language service of Radio Yerevan and was very popular among the Kurdish people.

Xaço became one of the greatest narrators of Dengbêj music, which mostly tells a story.

Xaço sang the traditional songs, "Ay lo mîro", "Adullê", "Çume Cizîre", "Xim ximê" and "Lê dayikê". Since he recorded them, variations of these songs have been recorded by numerous contemporary artists.

documentary

  • Mehmet Aktaş, Dengekî Zemanê Bere: Karapêtê Xaço: Voice from the Past (Belgium: Medya TV, 2000).

Individual evidence

  1. a b Salihê Kevirbirî, Bir Çığlığın Yüzyılı: Karapetê Xaço , Si Yayınları, İstanbul, 2002, ISBN 975-6560-13-4 , p. 66. ( Turkish )
  2. Abidin Parıltı, Dengbêjler: Sözün Yazgısı , İthaki Yayınları, İstanbul, 2006, ISBN 975-273-279-8 , p. 128. (Turkish)
  3. Christopher de Bellaigue, Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples , Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7475-9676-9 , p. 171.
  4. a b c Salihê Kevirbirî, The Armenian Origin Master Dengbêj in pen-kurd.org
  5. Salihê Kevirbirî, Bir Çığlığın Yüzyılı: Karapetê Xaço , p. 61. (Turkish)
  6. ^ Nanci Adler, Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity , Transaction Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4128-0853-8 , p. 185