Paula Darwish

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Although a songwriter in her own right, Paula Darwish has become more well known in recent years for her unique and captivating interpretations of Turkish and Kurdish folk songs. Her group, The Country and Eastern Band successfully fuse modern arrangements of Anatolian folk with original songs in English. Their unique sound with its diverse eastern and western influences, relies on a careful balance of the familiar with the unknown. Born in Northern England to an English mother and Jordanian father, she grew up listening to both “Eastern” and “Western” music. Her first big influence was the famous Lebanese singer Fairuz who she regularly listened to at home. As a teenager, she learnt classical piano and played flute and saxophone in orchestras. She later became interested in folk and protest music and taught herself guitar so she would be able to perform solo in the clubs. Darwish began to write her own songs and joined several bands as a keyboard player aswell as performing solo in small acoustic clubs. Working as a postwoman at the time, she grew tired of the late nights and early mornings and also frustrated by the music scene. She decided to save up and try to realise her dream of travelling around the Mediterranean.The plan came off and Darwish lived for a short while in Crete and Turkey, immediately falling in love with the local music. She returned to England with a few CD's in her bag and a new dream of one day being able to sing some of the new songs she had hea

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Urfa Folk Song & Bonustracks

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3 Songs In Kurdish

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Do what you love - Yüreğinin götürdüğü yere git

3 Anadolu Ezgisi

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Do what you love -Yüre?inin götürdü?ü yere git

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Do what you love - Yüreðinin götürdüðü yere git

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3 Songs in Kurdish, 3 Kürtçe Ezgi, 3 Kilama Kurdî

Urfa Folk Song

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Taşra hep hazırdır aşka

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Classical Turkish Lullaby

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