Monday 14 July 2014

Safiye Ayla Targan - evergreen musical

I guess it is more for Turkish readers, so it's the time when you get to know things more than just buried in a couch swipin your fingers over your phone (or your laptop, yeah.....counts as same), and being too lazy to move your tushy.

I'm gonna tell you about a singer named Safiye Ayla Targan. She was the was one of the most famous singers of Turkish classical music.
I'm not saying she is the best, but she is one of those great musicians from the past who can really make my day. In the age where people are lifting their feet of new emerging genres like EDM (Electronic Dance Music pioneered by David Guetta), her music comes out as gold.

She was born on 14 July 1907 in Istanbul and the "inevitable" death took her away from us on 14 January 1998. Safiye Ayla worked with some of the most important artists of her time, including Yesari Asım ArsoyHafız Ahmet IrsoySelahattin PınarSadettin Kaynak and Udi Nevres Bey. She gave a performance for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1932 and became one of his favorite singers.

Her best compositions include Gönül Şarkıları and Bu Akşam Ay Işığında. Just lay back and listen to these -


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