{"id":3839,"date":"2023-05-08T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2023-05-13T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:25:49","slug":"mem-ararat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/mem-ararat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mem Ararat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3839\" class=\"elementor elementor-3839\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-044ea93 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"044ea93\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-42d49ee\" data-id=\"42d49ee\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-909e26a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"909e26a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mem Ararat<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a35aec9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a35aec9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8f6d2e6\" data-id=\"8f6d2e6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6841c35 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6841c35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3842\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mem-ararat-photo-facing-camera-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mem Ararat\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mem-ararat-photo-facing-camera-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mem-ararat-photo-facing-camera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mem-ararat-photo-facing-camera-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mem-ararat-photo-facing-camera.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mem Ararat is a Kurdish singer, songwriter, and composer.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was born September 17, 1981, in the village of Girke \u015e\u00eax in Mardin province. \u00a0When he was seven, his family moved to western Turkey due to poor economic conditions. In 1991 they returned to his village. But he and his family moved away again in 1994, this time, for political reasons, \u00a0returning to western Turkey.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result of these migrations, he attended only primary school. He was interested in music from childhood but lacked opportunity to develop his talent. He returned to his hometown in 2007 and settled in the K\u0131z\u0131ltepe district of Mardin, where he worked at various jobs in farming, construction and trading.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile he wrote and composed songs. In 2013, at the urging of friends, he shared his first studio album, <em>Quling Ewr \u00fb Baran<\/em> (Crane, Clouds, and Rain). That initiated his professional career in music.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the next years, he released the albums <em>Kurd\u00eeka<\/em> (2016), <em>Xewna Bajarek\u00ee<\/em> (A City&#8217;s Dream, 2018), <em>Ni\u015ftiman <\/em>(Homeland, 2019), and <em>Pesna Ev\u00een\u00ea<\/em> (Praise of Love, 2020).<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has given many concerts at home and abroad. \u00a0Despite his youth, he is among the best-known Kurdish musicians.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Favorite tracks among NYKCC volunteers include \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6LlJg08Fzo\">Hawara Koban\u00ea<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s7Mfav_KdIQ\">Strana<\/a> B\u00eadengiya Dayika Min.\u201d Be sure to visit his channels on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCm2EMK4ls9WgQQDez-9_w2w\">YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-827107673\">SoundCloud<\/a>.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NYKCC favorite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[119,116,117],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-composer","tag-mem-ararat","tag-singer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}