Meriç Yurdatapan (born 1972) is a

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woman

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

singer resident in Germany. Yurdatapan came to Germany at the age of 18 to study architecture but changed to study singing at the

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

. She became well known in Germany from her concert ''Live in

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

'', which became her first commercial record release.

Discography

*Meriç Yurdatapan ''Oriental Jazz Live in Mainz'' 2007 *Meriç Yurdatapan ''The Great Turkish Songbook''''The Great Turkish Songbook'' Essay on song tradition in CD booklet, accompanied by Turkish sung texts and English translations

References

External links

Official Website
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