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Selami Şahin
Selami Sahin (born 1948) is a Turkish musician, singer, and songwriter. Life and career Şahin's works have been performed in different languages by artists from European and Middle Eastern countries. He was born to a mother of Egyptian descent settled in Hatay and a Turkish father. He knows not only Turkish but also Egyptian Arabic as mother tongues. Owing to his mother, he speaks in Egyptian Arabic . Since Egyptian Arabic is his mother tongue, he has also participated in joint projects with many famous figures such as Ghada Ragab and Enrico Macias. As a commentator, composer and songwriter, he continued his musical life and later he started art directing and vocal coaching. In 1980 he founded the music production company Lider Müzik. In 2011, when he celebrated his 45th year of career, and his works, which were previously covered by many artists, were put with acoustic and new arrangements and in his album ''Mahzen'' . Besides his music career, he has also had an acting ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yayladağı
Yayladağı (), formerly Ordu (; ), is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 445 km2, and its population is 36,803 (2022). It is on the border with Syria, south of the city of Antakya. Yayladağı was heavily damaged by 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, powerful earthquakes in February 2023 and subsequent aftershocks. Demographics 19th-century German traveler Martin Hartmann noted that the town was made up of 150 Muslim and 30 Greek households. He further listed 29 additional settlements in the Ottoman nahiyah of Urdu: 18 settlements were Sunni Muslim (totaling to 495 houses), 14 of which were Turkish (400 houses). 1 settlement was Alawite (20 houses). 2 settlements were Armenian, one being Kessab (200 houses) and the other a village (15 houses). Hartmann didn't include any information on the remaining 7 settlements. After the Syrian civil war, Syrian Civil War broke out, nearly 2,000 Syrian Turkmen moved here from Turkmen Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatay
Hatay Province (, ) is the southernmost Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality of Turkey. Its area is , and its population is 1,686,043 (2022). It is situated mostly outside Anatolia, along the eastern coast of the Levantine Sea. The province borders Syria to its south and east, the Turkish province of Adana Province, Adana to the northwest, Osmaniye Province, Osmaniye to the north, and Gaziantep Province, Gaziantep to the northeast. It is partially situated on the Çukurova, Cilician Plain, a large fertile plain along the Cilicia region. Its administrative capital is Antakya (ancient Antioch), making it one of the three Turkish provinces not named after its administrative capital or any settlement. The second-largest city is İskenderun (formerly Alexandretta). Sovereignty over most of the province was Hatay dispute, disputed with neighbouring Syria, which claimed that the province had a demographic Arabs in Turkey, Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabesque (Turkish Music)
Arabesque () is a style of Turkish music popular in Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. The genre was particularly popular in Turkey from the 1960s through the 2000s. Its aesthetics have evolved over the decades and into the 2010s. It often includes the bağlama and Middle Eastern music. Arabesque music is mostly in a minor key, typically in varieties of the Phrygian mode; it heavily features themes that tend to focus on issues of longing, strife, and desire. Description and history A very small percentage of Arabesque is exclusively instrumental. For the great majority of it, a singer lies at the center of the music. Male singers dominated the genre in its early years, but female singers probably predominated during its peak years of popularity. Simultaneously, with the influx of female singers, the sound grew more dancey and upbeat. Suat Sayın is generally considered the founder of the genre. Other well-known older singers are Orhan Gence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-English speaking countries, including quasi-traditional, Cross-cultural communication, intercultural, and traditional music. World music's broad nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the culturally exotic is encapsulated in ''Roots'' magazine's description of the genre as "local music from out there".Chris Nickson. ''The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to World Music''. Grand Central Press, 2004. pp. 1-2. Music that does not follow "North American or British Pop music, pop and Folk music, folk traditions" was given the term "world music" by music industries in Europe and North America. The term was popularized in the 1980s as a marketing category for non-Western traditional music. It has grown to include subgenres such as ethnic fusion (Clannad, Ry Cooder, Enya, etc.) and worldbeat. Lexicology The term "world music" has been credited to et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lider Müzik
Lider may refer to: * * Lider (political party), a political party in Bulgaria * Lider-class destroyer, a class of ships of the Russian Navy * Líder, a retail chain in Chile * Renewed Democratic Liberty, abbreviated LIDER, a political party in Guatemala * LÍDER, a Spanish magazine mostly about tabletop role-playing games and fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures. The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ... or related media that was published by Joc Internacional * {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Macias
Gaston Ghrenassia (born 11 December 1938), known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is a French singer, songwriter and musician. Early years Gaston Ghrenassia was born to a Sephardic Jews, Sephardic Jewish family. His father, Sylvain Ghrenassia (1914–2004), was a violinist in an orchestra that played primarily ''malouf'', Andalusian classical music. Gaston played the guitar from childhood, and started playing with the Cheikh Raymond Leyris Orchestra at age 15. He pursued a school teacher career, but continued playing the guitar. In 1961, the Algerian War of Independence was raging, and the situation became untenable for the European colonizers of Constantine. The assassination in 1961 of his father-in-law and musician Cheikh Raymond, Cheikh Raymond Leyris by the National Liberation Front (Algeria), National Liberation Front (FLN) was of immense effect on Gaston Ghrenassia, and appears to have been due to his opposition to the independence of Algeria from France and pro-Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbank
Akbank T.A.Ş. is one of the largest banks in Turkey. Founded in 1948, , Akbank reported a consolidated net profit of TL 60 billion 26 million. Listed on the Borsa Istanbul, its largest shareholders are members of the Sabancı family. Akbank serves in the fields of corporate and investment banking, commercial banking, SME banking, consumer banking, payment systems, private banking, investment services and treasury transactions. Akbank has ranked as "The Most Valuable Banking Brand in Turkey" according to the "Brand Finance — Banking 500, 2018" report for the seventh time in a row. Akbank also achieved significant success by ranking as the 126th most valuable banking brand in the report that comprises the most valuable global banking brands. History Akbank was founded in Adana, Turkey in January 1948, originally to provide financing for the cotton producers in the Çukurova region. As the majority of the bank founders were born in the city of Kayseri, the name "Adana-Kayseri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Dealer
''The Dealer'' () is an Egyptian film produced in 2008 starring Ahmed El Sakka, Khaled El Nabawy and Mai Selim. The movie was filmed in 2008 and released in 2010. Plot In the first half of the film, Youssef El-Sheikh (Ahmed El Sakka) and Ali El-Halawany ( Khaled El Nabawy had a big fight between them since childhood that ends up with prison for Youssef and immigration of Ali to Ukraine. In Ukraine, Ali works with drug dealers and smuggles money to an unknown location, and Samah (Mai Selim), Ali's wife and Youssef's ex-lover takes her child to afterwards marry a Ukrainian lady and become a president of Ukraine Youssef travels to Turkey to work in the drug trade. After that, Youssef and Ali meet again, and the story ends when they became close friends, Ali was assassinated by man called (Turky) to take revenge from him when his wife was with Ali . Cast *Ahmed El Sakka as Yossef El-Sheikh * Khaled El Nabawy as Ali El-Halawany *Mai Selim as Samah * Nidal El-Shafey as Farahat El-K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Turkish Musicians
This is a list of Turkish musicians, musicians born in Turkey or who have Turkish citizenship or residency. 600s Born * Dede Korkut 800s Born *al-Farabi 1200s Born *Yunus Emre * Safi al-Din al-Urmawi 1300s Born *Abd al-Qadir Maraghi 1400s Born *Bayezid II 1500s Born * Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi * Hasan Can Çelebi * Kadri Çelebi 1600s Born * Reftar Kalfa * Buhurizade Mustafa Itri * Benli Hasan Ağa * Ali Ufkî Bey * Ebuishakzade Mehmed Esad Efendi * Hafız Post *Murad IV *Dimitrie Cantemir *Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha * Osman Dede 1700s Born * Dilhayat Kalfa *Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi *Selim III *Mahmud II * Gevrekzâde Hasan Efendi * Tab'î Mustafa Efendi * Abdülhalim Ağa * Basmacı Abdi Efendi * Abdi Efendi *Abdülaziz Efendi *Hampartsoum Limondjian * Zaharya Efendi Mir Cemil * Abdulbaki Nasir Dede 1820 Born * Rifat Bey * Nigoğos Ağa 1824 Born * Zekai Dede Efendi 1830 Born * Mehmed Abdülhalim Paşa *Abdulaziz 1831 Born * Hacı Arif Bey * Hacı Faik Bey 1836 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
