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Tahir Tawfiq
Tahir Tofiq 1922-1987
Tahir Tofiq was born in 1922 in Qosenchac City in the Arbil region, Iraqi Kurdistan. He recorded a great number of songs in the Kurdish section of the Baghdad Broadcasting Station 1970 's & 1980 's. He had no childeren. Tahir Tofiq died in Oktober 20, 1987 and was buried in his native city Qosenchaq. He is still one of the most popular and well known singers in Kurdistan.
 Mamê
Shirin bahara
Saqia va badawa
Zolft beqeder
Frishtei jwanim
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Nasir Razazi
Nasir Rezzazi
Nasir Rezzazi was born in June 1955 in Sinne, Iranian Kurdistan. After completing his secondary education in literature, he became the primary school teacher. With the triumph of the Iranian revolution and the advent of the Kurdish resistance to the new Islamic government which denied the Kurds their night to self-rule, Rezzazi was prevented from teaching and was subsequently imprisoned . After his relase from prison he along with his wife Merziye, and their two children joined the guerrilla movement in Kurdistan . Later, in the beginning of 1985 he moved to Sweden with his family, and since then they have been living there as refugees.
Nasir is a famous Kurdish singer, he has recorded and released 33 cassette tapes in Kurdistan including love songs and nationalist ballads with their emotive lyrics have been a source of encouragement for the Kurds in their struggles against tyranny and repression and for national liberation.
Mamê
Be pîroz
Kurdistan
Dhbare
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Tahsim Taha
Tahsin Taha -1995
Tahsin Taha was boren in ...... in Amadiya asmall city in the Iraqi Kurdistan, He showed a talent for singing at an early age in the 1970's. He recorded many songs in the Kurdish section of the Baghdad Broadcasting Station in the 1976. He was very popular singer, Tahsin Taha died of heart attack in May 28, 1995 in Netherland, and was buried in his native city Amadiya.
Berivane
Dilemin(video)
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Shwan Parvar
Shivan Perwer
For more information visit his Website
Shivan perwer is the foremost singer among the kurds today. Acharismatic and contraversial figure he continues to thrill audiences with his breathtakingly beautiful voice,poweful emotion and hypnotic rhythms.
Such is the power of this musician that in Iran , Iraq and Turky his music was lang banned, for he sang in Kurdish, and his tapes only a few of his recordings are permitted in Turky, his once forbidden traditional love songs.Shivan´s music and his richly diverse repertoire, captures the very essence of the Kurdish soul, emcompassing every shade of emotional and spiritual experience, from the exhuberant joy of a Kurdish dance to the tales of lost love and the lament for an emprisoned nation to a celebration of the beuty of the mountains, of its rugged nature and of the history and tradions of a proud and ancient peoples.
Shivan comes out of the ancient tradition of dengbej or bards, storytellers who would travel from town to village to emcampment singing epic tales of wars and romantic love and stories of religious and national heroes some of which date back to the time of Alexander the great. Each feudal lord would have his own dengbej and many were the competitions between dengbej set up to see who was the greatest composer and performer.
Shivan was born in the region of Urfa, Kurdistan(Turky) into a family of musicians in which everyone sang or played an instrument. His earlist memories are of long tragic tales of loss and longing, always with the desire to be free, to live in a land free from persecution. His earlist wish was to be the best dengbej and already as a child composing his own songs he was singled out for his remarkable voice.
He rose to fame rapidly in 1972 at Ankara University at the time of the Kurdish uprising in the Iraqi controlled part of Kurdistan. Pirate tapes made on simple equipment were smuggeled into Iraq and to Iran on pain of death Thousands listend to his tapes thousands cam to hear him sing live. In 1976 he had to escape Turky fearing for his and his families lives and that is when in Germany he made his first record.
He now lives in Sweden and tours all over the world with his group. He has played to many heads of state and took part in the live Aid concert in 1992 organised by Bob Geldrof and Geoffery Archer to raise funds for the Kurdish fleeing at the time of the Gulf War.Shivan has recorded 18 albums including Chants du Kurdistan on Auvidis Ethnic.
Kine-Em
Rekamin Dure
Mihemedo
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Hasan Zirak
Hasan Zirak
Hassan Zirak (1921-1972)
Hassan Zirek, was born in 1921 in Hermila, a small village in the Bookan region, The Iranian part of Kurdistan. He showed his talent for singing in his early age. Zirek suffered very much in his life and he was forced to go to exile where he experienced a very hard life, jailed and tortured several times.
In 1953 left for Kurdistan of Iraq and recorded a great number of songs in Kurdish for Kurdish section of the Baghdad broadcasting station.
In 1957 when he was 30 returned to Kurdistan of Iran for cooperation with music band of the Kurdish radio station in Kermanshah city where he recorded many Kurdish songs.
With his own style to Kurdish songs, he renewed hundreds of Kurdish folk songs. Zirek and his wife Midya Zand had two daughters (Arezoo & Sakar) who currently live in Tehran, Iran.
Hassan Zirek died from cancer at age 51 in 26 June 1972 and was buried in his native city Bokan. He is still one of the most popular and well known singers in Kurdistan.
Asmare
Amene
Katana
Nimah Chara
Rojgar
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Mangur tribe