Peruz (1866 in
Sivas
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[M. Nihat Özön, Baha Dürder (ed.), ''Türk Tiyatrosu Ansiklopedisi'', Yükselen Matbaası, 1967, p. 345. ] – c. 1920 in
Istanbul
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) also known as Peruz Hanım or Kantocu Peruz,
[ Yılmaz Öztuna, ''Türk Musikisi Ansiklopedisi'', Cilt 2, Kısım 2, M. E. B. Devlet Kitapları]
p. 286.
Perviz Hanım was an
Ottoman Armenian
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (or Ottoman Armenians) mostly belonged to either the Armenian Apostolic Church or the Armenian Catholic Church. They were part of the Armenian millet until the Tanzimat reforms in the nineteenth century equa ...
kanto
Kantō (Japanese)
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singer, songwriter. Her family name was Terzakyan.
[A. Sermet Muhtar Alus, ''Eski Günlerde'', İletişim Yayınları, 2001, ]
p. 60.
[ Mustafa Armağan, ''İstanbul Armağanı: Gündelik Hayatın Renkleri'', İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kültür İşleri Daire Başkanlığı, 1997, ]
p. 152.
One of her nicknames was ''Afet-i Devran Peruz''.
Biography
Peruz started singing kantos in 1880 when she was 14 years old.
She composed her songs and was also the lyricist. Her stage life lasted until 1912. She was beetle-browed, bulk-bodied, attractive and flirtatious woman.
("Composer
Şevki Bey", 1860–1891) fell in love with Peruz and composed many scores such as
Hidjaz ''Severim can ü gönülden seni tersa çiçeğim'' for her.
Her songs were published as "Neşe-i Dil". Peruz was a pioneer with her cousin Şamram (Kelleciyan, 1870–1955),
Baydzar, Büyük Emilye
meliya(
Pol), Küçük Eleni (
Greek
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), Küçük Virjin
irgine Mari Ferha and Agavni all non-Muslim kanto singers.
Peruz was also credited as a lead in 1919 silent short ''Fahri Bey Makarna Tenceresinde'' ("Mr. Fahri in Pasta Pot") by Fahri Bey (
İsmet Fahri Gülunç Ismet ( tr, İsmet) is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismet. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" an ...
). Rushen Hakki and Fahri himself were other actors. Fahri Bey directed another short film of the same year ''Tombul Aşığın Dört Sevgilisi'' ("Four Darlings of Plump Lover").
''Tombul Aşığın Dört Sevgilisi''
IMDb. The film was not completed de to a legal dispute and there were no credit records for Peruz. Peruz died at 54 years old.
Notes
External links
*Lütfü Tınç
"Peruz’dan Gülriz Sururi’ye kanto zamanları"
''İstanbul Life''.
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1866 births
1920s deaths
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People from Sivas
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19th-century actresses from the Ottoman Empire