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Mehtap Demir
Mehtap Demir (born 1978 in Ardahan) is a singer of Anatolian folk music from Turkey. BiographyDemir was born in 1978 in Ardahan,[1] near the border with Georgia, and graduated from Boğaziçi University,[2] holds a Ph.D. in Music Anthropology from Yeditepe University.[1] During her doctoral studies, she moved to Israel for 6 months and studied the emigration and interaction of the cross-border music, of which the mizrahi music can be considered one of the most recent examples. She is a renowned kemane player.[3] She has been known by her focus on Anatolian folk music. She participated in the French-Greek-Israeli-German documentary film My Sweet Canary in 2011, about the life of Jewish-Greek rebetikó singer Roza Eskenazi. She is director of the Ethnomusicology and Folklore Department of the Istanbul University State Conservatory.[4] She has performed at the opening of WOMEX in 2012, the Gibraltar Ethnic Music Festival and other world music festivals.[5] In her most recent album, Le parfum d'asie mineure, she recorded traditional Anatolian songs that were found on rare records from the first decades of the 20th century.[6] Discography
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