Soner Özbilen (born 1947) is a
Turkish folk
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singer,
conductor, and
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.
The origins are Albania (Kosovo)
Early life
Soner Özbilen was born in
Boğazlıyan
Boğazlıyan is a town and district of Yozgat Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Neighbouring districts are Sarıkaya on the north, Yenifakılı on the west, Çandır and Çayıralan
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in 1947 from Albanian parents, they were immigrants from
Kosovo
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.
He finished primary and middle school in Boğazlıyan, high school in
Istanbul
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and studied at the Academy of Economy and Finance. Showing great interest in music in the school choir, he attended the Public Music Education Centre in Kadıköy and
Aksaray Music Society for a while as a pupil of
Orhan Dağlı,
Nida Tüfekçi,
Neriman Tüfekçi, and
Yücel Paşmakçı. In 1966 he won the folk music singer competition organised by
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
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(TRT) and became a trainee singer. During the three-year training period he studied under Turkish Music masters such as Nida Tüfekçi, Neriman Tüfekçi,
Halil Bedii Yönetken and
Ahmet Kutsi Tecer. As his training ended in 1969, he was admitted to Turkish Folk Music Group in TRT Istanbul.
Career
Influenced by Nida Tüfekçi (also from Yozgat),
Çekiç Ali (from Kırşehir),
Ahmet Gazi Ayhan (from Kayseri),
Hacı Taşan (from
Keskin
Keskin is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. At the 2000 Turkish census, the population of the district was 59,150, of whom 34,827 lived in the town of Keskin.
See also
*Once Upon a Time in An ...
),
Refik Başaran (from Ürgüp) and
Muharrem Ertaş
Muharrem Ertaş (1913 – 3 December 1984) was a Turkish folk music singer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. He was one of the most important members of the Bozlak genre.
Early life
He was born in 1913 in the village ...
(from Kırşehir); Soner Özbilen developed his own style focusing on
Rumeli
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songs for the last ten years.
Along with appearing regularly in concerts and TRT radio-TV programmes, he performed in festivals in many regions of
Turkey
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. He took part in International Music and Folk Dance Festivals organized in Macedonia, France, Spain, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Libya, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, and Finland.
Soner Özbilen, who has contributed to Turkish Folk Music repertory by compiling songs from several regions of Turkey, is still working as a singer and as a conductor for TRT.
References
1947 births
Living people
People from Boğazlıyan
Turkish folk singers
Turkish male singers
Turkish musicians
Turkish people of Albanian descent
Turkish people of Kosovan descent
Kosovan Turks
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