Ercan Şahin (born 1971 in Turkey) is a Turkish

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ian.

Early life and education

Şahin's parents came from

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, a city in

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which is known for his numerous poets and

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. At the age of 13, he found his first enquiries and collections of undiscovered Anatolian

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s by travelling through different regions of

to get to know the local musical variety closer. Şahin taught in different "national education centres", youth centres, foundations and private music schools "

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", in

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, Turkey. In 1987, he founded his first music group and took part in different concerts in Germany and Turkey, accompanied by many singers and musicians with his "

Career

At the end of 1994, Ercan Şahin moved to Cologne and continued his musical career there. He worked as musician in the Arkadas theatre. Since 1995, he taught the Anatolian stringed instrument "Bağlama" and music theory, particularly for people from Turkey, at the art house "

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" and in different municipal music schools in Germany. In 1999 Ercan Şahin published his first album '' Gam Elinden''. In the same year, he prepared his pupils for a big musical event. A total of 174 of his Baglama pupils took part in the musical event " Saga of Millenium" in the event centre of Cologne, KölnArena. More than thousand

players divided the stage of the KölnArena in this arrangement and were accompanied in their repertoire by the Cologne symphony orchestra, an arrangement which earned an entry in the

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. In 2002, the same event took place in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2006, he met the group Ufermann, and published his second album ''Selam'' with it.

Discography

* Gam Elinden (1999) * Selam with the group ufermann(2006)

External links

Ercan Şahin Official Web Site

Ercan Şahin on Myspace
1971 births Living people Turkish musicians Turkish folk singers Turkish jazz singers 21st-century Turkish singers 21st-century Turkish male singers 20th-century Turkish folk musicians 21st-century Turkish folk musicians Bağlama players {{Turkey-musician-stub