Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of Anatolian folk music from Turkey.
Mehtap Demir | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1978 Ardahan, Turkey |
| Genres | folk |
| Instrument | vocals |
| Website | http://www.mehtapdemir.com/ |
Biography
editDemir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,[1] near the border with Georgia, and graduated from Boğaziçi University,[2] holds a Ph.D. in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University.[1] During her doctoral studies, she moved to Israel for 6 months and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music, of which the mizrahi music can be considered one of the most recent examples. She is a renowned kemane player.[3]
She has been known by her focus on Anatolian folk music. She participated in the French-Greek-Israeli-German documentary film My Sweet Canary in 2011, about the life of Jewish-Greek rebetikó singer Roza Eskenazi. She is director of the Ethnomusicology and Folklore Department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory.[4] She has performed at the opening of WOMEX in 2012, the Gibraltar Ethnic Music Festival and other world music festivals.[5] In her most recent album, Le parfum d'asie mineure, she recorded traditional Anatolian songs that were found on rare records from the first decades of the 20th century.[6]
Discography
edit- Türkülerimiz Söylenir Üç Kıtada (2000)
- Türkülerin Senfonisi (2008)
- Kemane ile Meditasyon (2009)
- Anadolu Ezgileriyle Ninniler (2009)
- My Sweet Canary – Soundtrack (2011)
- Mehtap (2012)
- Le parfum d'asie mineure (2016)
Filmography
edit- My Sweet Canary (2011)
References
edit- ^ a b Mehtap Demir. Ahenk Müzik.
- ^ Mehtap Demir. Karnaval.com
- ^ MEHTAP DEMİR. Cafeturc.com
- ^ Akademik Kadro. Istanbul University State Conservatory. (in Turkish)
- ^ MEHTAP DEMİR. y kültür sanat. (in Turkish)
- ^ Biyografi. Mehtap Demir Resmi Sitesi. (in Turkish)