Tara Jaff

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1985-11-25

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Listeners

1,904

Total plays

14,795

Tara Jaff is a Kurdish musician who has been exposed to many influences.Over the years she experimented with different string instruments, but it was her fascination with the ancient harps of Sumeria and Mesopotamia, dating as far back as 3000BC, that led her to the contemporary Celtic harp. Tara has embraced this instrument and has introduced it to Kurdish music, and in particular to folk songs in the Hawrami dialect. She has developed an innovative style to adapt to the various musical rhy

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Tara

Gender

female

Citizenship

Iraq

Place of birth

Baghdad

Occupation

composer

Instrument

celtic harp

Image

Tara Caf.jpg

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