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Artist
Feyzullah Çınar
12+ albums
turkish folk musicturkishanatoliaturkish nationalAlevi Folk Music
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Feyzullah Çınar was born on November 15, 1937 in Gürpınar (Çamağa) Village of Sincan (Çamşıhı) sub-district of Divriği district of Sivas. He started singing folk songs in 1950. He released his first record in 1966. He was imprisoned for his Alevi sayings and socialist folk song lyrics. He went to France in 1969 and attended conferences and gave concerts with Irène Mélikoff on Alevi-Bektashi culture and music. During this trip, two long-plays were published by French Radio and Television and UNESCO. Çınar died on October 26, 1983, at the age of 45, while working as a cleaning worker in Ankara Municipality. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
