Nizamettin Ariç, Nîzamettîn Arîç, is a contemporary Kurdish singer, composer and director. He was born in A?r? in Turkey. He was exposed to traditional Kurdish bard music or dengbêj at an early age, but until 1980 was professionally active as a singer of Turkish-language folksongs, including songs that he himself had translated from Kurdish to Turkish. In 1979, at a concert in his hometown of A?r?, he sang a love song in Kurdish, and was arrested for spreading propaganda. Upon finding he was to...
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