Ercan Şahin

Ercan Şahin
Ercan Şahin
	Ercan Şahin
Background information
Birth name	Ercan Şahin
Born	3 March 1971 (age 50)
Origin	Sivas, Turkey
Genres	Folk, jazz, world fusion, Turkish folk
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, composer,
Instruments	Bağlama, vocals
Years active	1999–present
Website	http://www.ercansahin.org

Ercan Şahin (born 1971 in Turkey) is a Turkish folk musician.

Early life and education[]

Şahin's parents came from Sivas, a city in Anatolia which is known for his numerous poets and folk singers. At the age of 13, he found his first enquiries and collections of undiscovered Anatolian folk songs by travelling through different regions of Anatolia to get to know the local musical variety closer.

Şahin taught in different "national education centres", youth centres, foundations and private music schools "Bağlama", in Bursa, Turkey. In 1987, he founded his first music group and took part in different concerts in Germany and Turkey, accompanied by many singers and musicians with his "Bağlama".

Career[]

At the end of 1994, Ercan Şahin moved to Cologne and continued his musical career there. He worked as musician in the . Since 1995, he taught the "Bağlama" and music theory, particularly for people from Turkey, at the art house "Mosaik" and in different municipal music schools in Germany.

In 1999 Ercan Şahin published his first album . In the same year, he prepared his pupils for a big musical event. A total of 174 of his Baglama pupils took part in the musical event "" in the event centre of Cologne, . More than thousand Bağlama players divided the stage of the in this arrangement and were accompanied in their repertoire by the , an arrangement which earned an entry in the Guinness book of records. In 2002, the same event took place in Istanbul, Turkey.

In 2006, he met the group Ufermann, and published his second album Selam with it.

Discography[]

(1999)
with the group ufermann(2006)

External links[]

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