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Ahmet Kaya

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Turkish-Kurdish singer

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Ahmet Kaya was a Turkish singer, composer, poet, and musician of Kurdish ethnicity. Born in Malatya in 1957, he began his work period in 1985 and continued until 1999. He spoke Turkish and used Kurdish as his native language. His musical output included protest songs, contemporary folk, and singer-songwriter styles, often featuring the bağlama and his voice.

Kaya died of a myocardial infarction in the 15th arrondissement of Paris in 2000. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. His notable works include *Ney Metodu - Yardimci Nota Kitabi*, *Muhtar Tevfikoğlu'nun anlatımıyla Yahyâ Kemâl*, *Şair İsmet Özel "Yaşamak umrumdadır!"*, *Ahmet Kaya Nota Kitabi 1*, and *Anılarımdasınız*. He was tagged with descriptions such as Turkish, folk, Kurdish, political, and protest.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • Ney Metodu - Yardimci Nota Kitabi
  • Muhtar Tevfikoğlu'nun anlatımıyla Yahyâ Kemâl
  • Şair İsmet Özel "Yaşamak umrumdadır!"
  • Ahmet Kaya Nota Kitabi 1
  • Anılarımdasınız

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Türkiye
Active from
1957
Active to
2000
contemporary folksinger-songwriterturkish

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
83,175
Total plays
4,950,425

Tags

turkishfolkProtestkurdishpolitical

Ahmet Kaya (1957-2000) was a Kurdish poet, singer, musician, and songwriter. Kaya was born in Malatya on 28th October to a Kurdish father and a Turkish mother. When he was six his father, discovering Ahmet’s interest in music, brought a large bağlama for him as a birthday present When he was nine he performed at a Labour Day’s evening entertainment organised by the workers in the factory where his father worked… While at school Kaya had a part-time job at a cassette and record shop that belonge

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,787x

  2. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,660x

  3. First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States

    · 2020 · cited 4,549x

  4. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices

    · 2018 · cited 4,500x

  5. ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation

    · 2012 · cited 3,877x

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Key facts

Born
28 October 1957 , Malatya Province , Turkey
Died
16 November 2000 (2000-11-16) (aged 43), Paris , France
Genres
Turkish folk music , Kurdish folk music , Azerbaijani folk music , Protest song
Occupations
Musician , Composer , Poet
Instruments
Bağlama , vocals
Years active
1984–2000
Labels
Taç Plak (1984–1987, 1989, 1990), Barış Müzik (1989, 1990–1991), Tempa - Foneks (1992), Raks Müzik (1993–1998), Gam Müzik (1998–2000)
Website
www.ahmetkaya.com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Ahmet
Gender
male
Citizenship
Turkey
Place of birth
Malatya
Place of death
15th arrondissement of Paris
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
Turkish
Native language
Kurdish
Genre
protest song
Instrument
voice
Official website
www.ahmetkaya.com
Image
Ahmet Kaya.jpg
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place of burial
Père Lachaise Cemetery
cause of death
myocardial infarction
Commons category
Ahmet Kaya
date of birth
1957-10-28
date of death
2000-11-16
ethnic group
Kurds
manner of death
natural causes
start of work period
1985-00-00
end of work period
1999-00-00
Sources (5)

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Encyclopedic overview

Ahmet Kaya (28 October 1957 – 16 November 2000) was a Turkish Kurd folk music artist. Kaya was persecuted by Turkish nationalist celebrities and authorities. Kaya left Turkey in an act of self-exile, and moved to France, where he would shortly after die of a heart attack.

He was granted the Musician of the Year Award in February 1999 during a controversial award ceremony involving Turkey's most popular singers, at which he declared that he wanted to sing a song in Kurdish.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ahmet Kaya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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