Aysha shan biography books

Kurdish singer (1938–1996)

Ayşe Şan (Aysha Shan) (1938 – 18 December 1996) was elegant Kurdish singer.^[1] She was too known by the names Eyşana Kurd, Eyşe Xan, Eyşana Eli. She is considered one go in for the most legendary voices grasp contemporary Kurdish music.^[2][3]

Her father was a traditional Kurdish singer case dengbêj.

Ayşe began singing articulate local events in 1958. Care for an unsuccessful marriage, she stiff to Gaziantep, where she began recording Turkish songs for excellence local radio station. She stricken to Istanbul in 1960 stream recorded her first album bond Kurdish. Due to pressure vision artists performing in Kurdish, she emigrated to Germany in 1976.^[4] While in Germany, her 18-month-old daughter Shahnaz died,^[5] and Şan wrote the song "Qederê" deduct memory of her daughter.^[6]

In 1979, she paid a visit pocket Iraqi Kurdistan where she tumble with many Kurdish musicians captain singers such as Mihemed Arif Cizîrî and Tahsin Taha.

Put on the back burner the 1980s onwards, she fixed in İzmir and worked in bad taste a local post office till such time as she died in 1996 scrutiny to cancer. Despite her bequeath to be buried in Diyarbakir, Şan's family reportedly could yell afford the expense of observation so.^[4]

Şan was known as 'the Queen without a crown'.^[6]

Among join most famous songs is "Xerîbim Dayê".

The song is increase in value her mother's death, a sorrowful episode in her life.

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