{"id":4029,"date":"2023-05-21T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2023-05-21T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:58:08","slug":"meryem-xan-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/meryem-xan-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryem Xan, singer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4029\" class=\"elementor elementor-4029\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f824153 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f824153\" 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-6fcbc3e\" data-id=\"6fcbc3e\" 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-287456d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"287456d\" 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\">Meryem Xan, singer<\/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-5848ca4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5848ca4\" 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-8c17bd4\" data-id=\"8c17bd4\" 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-b7c468a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b7c468a\" 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=\"wp-image-4032 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/oldsite\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meryem-Xan-image-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"Meryem Xan\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meryem-Xan-image-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Meryem-Xan-image.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>Meryem Xan (1904-1949) was the first female singer to record in Kurdish. In her time, Kurdish society considered it shameful for women to become musicians, and most Kurdish singers were men. She blazed the trail.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little is known of her life. She was likely born in Botan. In the 1920s her family resettled in Syrian Kurdistan. She learned to sing in the tradition of <em>dengb\u00eaj<\/em>. She met the intellectuals Celadet Al\u00ee Bedirxan and Kamuran Bedirxan and \u00a0married into the Bedirxan family. But her husband was uncomfortable with her being a <em>dengb\u00eaj,<\/em> and she left him.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She went to Zaxo in 1924, then to Mosul in 1936, then to Baghdad, where she met well-known <em>dengb\u00eaj<\/em> singers. Her artistic life peaked as she recorded her songs for a British music company, which released them. She joined Baghdad Radio and broadcast her songs over its airwaves.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meryem Xan opened the way for the many later Kurdish women artists, and her songs have been sung by many of both sexes in the generations that followed.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can explore her surviving recordings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DengbejMeryemXan\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/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>Meryem Xan, singer Meryem Xan (1904-1949) was the first female singer to record in Kurdish. In her time, Kurdish society considered it shameful for women to become musicians, and most Kurdish singers were men. She blazed the trail. Little is known of her life. She was likely born in Botan. 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