MA Music Center

MA Music Center The MA Music Center opened in Amed (Diyarbakir) in 2017, a year after the state-installed trustee shut down the Aram Tigran Conservatory. The Aram Tigran Conservatory had been established within the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality in 2010. It provided Kurdish-language music instruction. When the trustee closed the conservatory in 2016, it dismissed the […]

Meryem Xan, singer

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. In the 1920s her family […]

“Cerr,” dengbêj video

by Mehmûd Berazi and Şêro Hindê