Ciwan Haco (born 1957) is a
Kurdish
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* Kurd (dis ...
singer. He was born in
Tirbespî near
Qamişlo in Syria. His grandfather was originally from
Doğançay in Turkey.
After finishing high school, he left for
Germany
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in order to continue his studies. He studied musicology at the
Ruhr University Bochum
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. He is now residing in
Sweden
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.
His music
At the beginning he did not count with the support of his family due to fact at that time only the lower classes played music. But at 14 he released his first album and with 17 he performed for the first time in front of a larger public.
Ciwan Haco is one of the first
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
singers to combine
Kurdish folk music with western style pop music,
rock
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,
blues
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and
jazz
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. In 2003 he received permission for a concert in Batman, which was attended by more than 200,000 people.
Ciwan Haco is known for his lyrics that are often purposely simple and to which the main recurrent theme is love, with variations around this same theme. The main song from his last album
Off (2006),
Li hêviya te
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(''Waiting for you'') features vocals in both
Kurmanci
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and
French language
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(the latter being sung by a female vocalist).
Similar to other famous Kurdish musicians like
Şivan Perwer
Şivan Perwer (born İsmail Aygün on 23 December 1955) is a Kurdish population, Kurdish poet, writer, musical teacher, singer, and performer on the ''Tembûr''. Perwer fled Turkey in 1976 due to the Kurdish nationalism and political tones of his ...
, Haco sometimes uses poems by famous Kurdish poets such as
Cegerxwîn or
Qedrîcan
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in his song
He has also recorded one of the novels of Mehmed Uzun
Mehmed Uzun (January 1, 1953 – October 10, 2007) was a Kurdish writer and novelist born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Though the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in it and achieved much t ...
named ''Destana Egîdekî''.
Very popular in the Kurdish diaspora
The Kurdish population is estimated to be between 30 and 45 million.[T ...](_blank)
as with the Kurdish people in the Middle East
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, Ciwan Haco has given concerts in many parts of Europe.
Movies
Wrote music for movies - Dol(2007), E: xile(2012), Chaplin of the Mountains(2013) and Sîrusta Gerîla(2017). Also played as an actor in Dol(2007).
His song was used in the soundtrack of the documentary "1001 Apples".
Albums
To date he has released 17 albums and a live VCD and DVD
* ''Emîna Emîna'' (1970)
* ''Pêşmerge'' (1979)
* ''Diyarbekîr'' (1981)
* ''Welatperestî'' (1982)
* ''Gûla Sor'' (1983)
* ''Leyla'' (1985)
* ''Girtîyên Azadîyê'' (1987)
* ''Çaw Bella'' (1989)
* ''Sî û Sê Gule'' (1991)
* ''Dûrî'' (1994)
* ''Bilûra Min'' (1997)
* ''Destana Egîdekî'' (1998)
* ''Derya'' (2003)
* ''
Konsera Batmanê'' (2003) (
VCD
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&
DVD
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)
* ''Na Na'' (2004)
* ''
Off'' (2006)
* ''
Veger'' (2012)
* ''
Felek'' (2018 - Hamburg)
References
External links
Official Ciwan Haco Facebook Pageciwan-haco.comOfficial Ciwan Haco Homepage
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1957 births
People from Qamishli
Kurdish musicians
Kurdish-language singers
Syrian Kurdish people
Syrian emigrants to Sweden
Living people
People from Midyat