Müzeyyen Senar

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Müzeyyen Senar (born July 16, 1918 near Bursa ; † February 8, 2015 in Izmir ) was a singer of Turkish art music ( Türk sanat müziği ).

Life

Müzeyyen was the third child of a farming family from near Bursa. Zehra, the mother, is said to have had a beautiful voice herself, with which she often sang to her children. It did not take long before Müzeyyen also mastered most of the Turkish folk songs and was allowed to sing at weddings and other festivities. At the age of five, upon returning from a wedding reception, she developed a speech disorder and began to stutter violently , which did not occur while singing and which led her to take refuge in singing.

When she was twelve years old, she secretly left her father's apartment and moved to live with her mother in Istanbul , where she grew up in the Üsküdar district . In 1931 she was accepted at the Üsküdar Musiki Cemiyeti , Istanbul's most renowned conservatory , and received lessons at the then Oriental Music School of İstanbul, where she met Mustafa Nâfiz Irmak, Osman Nihat Akın, Selahattin Pınar, Yesari Asım Arsoy and other artists of Turkish classical music.

In 1933, at the age of 14, she was discovered for the Turkish radio. In the same year she had her stage premiere and recorded a record. Numerous appearances on the radio and in concert halls followed.

Her artistic success gave her access to higher social circles, where she was now counted among the well-known and successful singers such as Safiye Ayla , Selma Hanım , Lale Belkıs , Nimet Hanım , Hikmet Rıza or Feriha Hanım . In 1936 she was allowed to audition for Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the Dolmabahçe Palace . She settled in the noble Beyoğlu , then known as the “French Quarter” .

Since the 1970s, Turkish salon music has been supplanted by pop music . In 1983 Müzeyyen gave her last concert and was almost forgotten by the audience, although the album Bir Ömre Bedel was made in 1998 , on which Müzeyyen Senar duet with Sezen Aksu , Ajda Pekkan , Tarkan , Nilüfer , Levent Yüksel , Şebnem Ferah , Kubat, her daughter and another sang.

In 2005 she was a protagonist in Fatih Akın's documentary about the Turkish music scene Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul . In 2006 Sezen Aksu introduced her as her “musical mother” and made it possible for her to give a concert in Istanbul's Büyük Londra Hotel , where musicians of her age and age also formed the orchestra. In 2006 the singer suffered a stroke, and from then on her left side of the body was paralyzed. After a long period of therapy in Istanbul, she largely regained her mobility.

She was a role model and teacher of many artists, such as Zeki Müren , Bülent Ersoy , Sezen Aksu, Behiye Aksoy, Gönül Yazar and others.

She has a daughter, Feraye , who is also a singer.

She died on February 8, 2015 in the Ege Üniversitesi clinic at the age of 96.

Oddities

Senar sang the Turkish songs that replaced the Arabic film songs in the synchronization of Arabic (especially Egyptian) films. Most of these songs were composed by Sadettin Kaynak for the synchronization in the length of the Arabic song to be replaced. Today all of these films are lost .

literature

  • Radi Dikici: Cumhuriyet'in Divası Müzeyyen Senar: Turk Musician 75 Yıllık Hikayesi ( The Diva of the Republic of Müzeyyen Senar: The 75-Year History of Turkish Music). Istanbul 2005, ISBN 9751410479 (biography in Turkish).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veteran Turkish singer Müzeyyen Senar dies aged 96
  2. ↑ a b c Sabah - Interview by Atilla Dorsay.

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personal data
SURNAME Senar, Müzeyyen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH at Bursa
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2015
Place of death Izmir