Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of

Anatolian Anatolian or anatolica may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the region Anatolia * Anatolians, ancient Indo-European peoples who spoke the Anatolian languages * Anatolian High School, a type of Turkish educational institution * Anatol ...

folk music from

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Biography

Demir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,Mehtap Demir
Ahenk Müzik. near the border with Georgia, and graduated from

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus strait. It has six facult ...

, holds a

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in Music Anthropology from

Yeditepe University Yeditepe University is a private foundation university situated in Istanbul, Turkey. Established by the Istanbul Education and Culture Foundation ( tr, İstanbul Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı, İSTEK Vakfı) in 1996, Yeditepe University now claims t ...

. During her doctoral studies, she moved to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

for 6 months and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music, of which the mizrahi music can be considered one of the most recent examples. She is a renowned

kemane Kemane ( Macedonian: ќемане, ; sr, ћемане) is a bowed string instrument traditionally used in the Balkans and Anatolia. It is the Macedonian and southern Serbian version of the kemenche, it is very similar to the violin or viola and r ...

player. She has been known by her focus on Anatolian folk music. She participated in the French-Greek-Israeli-German

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My Sweet Canary ''My Sweet Canary'' (greek language, Greek: Καναρίνι μου Γλυκό) is a France, French-Greece, Greek-Israeli-Germany, German documentary film from 2011 about the life of Jewish-Greek rebetiko singer Roza Eskenazi. Its director is the S ...

in 2011, about the life of Jewish-Greek '' rebetikó'' singer

Roza Eskenazi Roza Eskenazi (mid-1890s – 2 December 1980, Greek: Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ) was a famous Jewish-Greek dancer and singer of ''rebetiko'', Greek folk music, Kanto and Turkish folk music born in Istanbul, whose recording and stage career extend ...

. She is director of the Ethnomusicology and Folklore Department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory. She has performed at the opening of

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in 2012, the Gibraltar Ethnic Music Festival and other world music festivals. In her most recent album, Le parfum d'asie mineure, she recorded traditional Anatolian songs that were found on rare records from the first decades of the 20th century.Biyografi
Mehtap Demir Resmi Sitesi.

Discography

* Türkülerimiz Söylenir Üç Kıtada (2000) * Türkülerin Senfonisi (2008) * Kemane ile Meditasyon (2009) * Anadolu Ezgileriyle Ninniler (2009) * My Sweet Canary – Soundtrack (2011) * Mehtap (2012) * Le parfum d'asie mineure (2016)

Filmography

(2011)

References

External links

Official web site of Mehtap Demir
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