Nesrin Akçan Sipahi (born 29 November 1934) is a Turkish singer of Crimean Tatar origin specialized on

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Life

Nesrin Akçan was born to Yunus and Adile in

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neighborhood of

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(district),

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, Turkey on 29 November 1934. Her parents were of Crimean descent. Her two brothers, Nihat and Çetin were theatre actors. She graduated from Bakırköy High School. Following a short marriage in 1950, she remarried to Hasan Aldemir Sipahi on 23 January 1957. She has two sons; Yunus Emre born in 1957 and Candemir in 1968.Biography page
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Music career

While still in teens, she got interested in music. Although initially her genre was western music, she finally began singing

. In 1953, she entered Ankara Radio, which was considered as the main music training center at that time. In 1960, she resigned from the radio and began working as a stage performer in

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. Following concerts in Turkey, she also performed in many foreign countries. In her 1971-tour in the Soviet Union, she also sang in Azerbaijani, Russian and

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in addition to Turkish. She performed in the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt Cyprus and Spain. She released about four hundred singles. She played only in one film; ''Kalbimdeki Serseri'' ("The Rascal in My Heart") in 1965. In 1974, she released ''Yaşa Fenerbahçe'' ("Long Live Fenerbahçe"), the

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for the Fenerbahçe S.K., a cover of '' Y Viva España'', quite out of her genre.

Awards

She has a number of

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s. In 1998, she was honored with the title

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. In 2017, she was honored with a special award during a ceremony at the Presidential Complex and received her award from president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Albums

Beginning by 1970, she released LP s and CDs:Dşiscogs page
/ref> *1970: (?):''La Chanson D'Amour En Turquie'' *1970: ''Suat Sayın'' *1970: ''Ve İkinci Dünyası'' *1970: ''Yusuf Nalkesen'in Eserleri'' *1970: ''Nesrin Sipahi'' *1970: ''Avni Anıl'ın Eserleri'' *1971: ''Bir Bahar Akşamı'' *1972: ''Türk Sanat Müziğinden Seçmeler'' *1973: ''Ve Türk Sanat Müziğinin 12 Pırlantası'' *1973: ''Osman Nihat Akın'ın Seçme Eserleri'' *1983: ''Aşk Mevsime Bakma''z *1991: ''Nesrin Sipahi and The Kudsi Erguner Ensemble – Sharki (Love Songs Of Istanbul)'' *2009: ''Nesrin Sipahi'den Türküler''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sipahi, Nesrin Living people 1934 births People from Bakırköy Musicians from Istanbul Turkish people of Crimean Tatar descent Turkish women singers Turkish classical singers State Artists of Turkey