Biography

SAKINA began her career self taught, as an autodidact, before she received professional education and voice training.
In the 90′s she was a member of the Mesopotamian Culture Centre, a Kurdish artists association based in Istanbul but acting throughout all of Turkey. Its members suffered various reprisals by the government because of their Kurdish lyrics. Some of them paid their artistic dedication with their lives.
During this time she organized many (due to the government led forbiddance of the Kurdish language until the late 90s) illegal concerts, until eventually she was forced to flee.
She continued her work in Armenia, Syria and Kurdish-Irak.
Currently she is living in Vienna.

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Hunermend Sakîna, di sala 1973ê de li navçeya Gimgim (Varto) a bi ser Mûşê hat dinyayê. Sakîna di nav malbateke elewî de mezin bû, ku ji nêz ve bi mûzîkê re têkîldar bû. Hunermend herweha di dema xwendina xwe ya dibistanê de jî hertim bi mûzîkê re mijûl bû. 
Sakîna di 1991ê de bi damezrandina Navenda Çanda Mezopotamyayê (NÇM) di nav xebatên mûzîka Kurdî de cîh girt û li cem Koma Mezrabotan wekî vokalîst stran gotin. Hunermendê, ji ber xebatên xwe yên cîhereng naçar ma ku navbereke dirêj bide xebatên xwe yên hunerî. Sakîna, di fîlma serkeftî ya bi navê Bêrîtan de, ku derhenêriya wê Halîl Uysal kir, bi strana xwe ya Bêrîtanê bû stranbêja sereke ya fîlmê û bi vê stranê re, ku ji aliyê gelek hunermendên din ve jî hatibû strîn, Sakîna vegeriya jiyana xwe ya mûzîkê. 
Piştî ku Sakîna di 2006ê de derket Ewropayê wê digel Orkestraya Caza Împrovîze ya Viyanayê (VIO) gelek konser dan. Herweha ev çendîn sal in ku Sakîna digel komeke şanoyê ya kuçeyan a împrovîze bi nivîsar û stranên xwe hunera xwe pêşkêş dike. Hunermendê, di bihara 2011ê de komeke bi navê TRİO MARA, ku ji sê jinan pêk tê, damezirand. Trio Mara, stranên klasîk ên kurdî û stranên jinan bi piyano û kemanê pêşkêş dike û herweha formên kelepûrî bi formên nûjen digihîne hev.
Hunermenda ku li welatên Ewropayê yên wekî Almanya, Awusturya, Hollanda û Fransayê gelek konser dan, wekî din digel hunermend Mehmet Akbaş li çendîn bajar û welatan konserên hevbeş dan.
Sakîna di destpêka 2012ê de yekemîn xebata xwe ya solo, an ku bi albûma xwe ya bi navê ROYÊ Mİ derket pêşberî guhdarên xwe. 
Hunermend Sakîna, ku li kêleka xebatên xwe yên mûzîkê rojnamegerî û parêzvaniya mafên mirovan û yên jinan dike, ji sala 2006 û vir ve xebatên xwe li viyanayê didomîne.

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1973 yılında Muş’un Varto ilçesinde doğdu. Müzikle ilgilenen alevi bir ailede deyişlerle içiçe büyüdü. İlk, orta ve yüksek öğrenimi süresince amatör müzik gruplarında ve değişik korolarda yer aldı. 
1991 yılında İstanbul’da kurulan MKM(Mezopotamya Kültür Merkezi) çatısı altında Kürtçe müzik alanında çalışmalarına başladı ve Koma Mezrabotan’da vokalist olarak yer aldı. Değişik alanlarda çalışması nedeniyle müziğe uzun yıllar ara veren sanatçı, 2006 yılında yeniden profesyonel olarak müzikle ilgilenmeye başladı. Halil Uysal tarafından yapılan ve oldukça büyük bir izleyici kitlesine ulaşan Bêrîtan isimli filmde, müziği kendisine ait Bêrîtan isimli şarkı, filmin ana şarkısı oldu ve başka sanatçılar tarafından da seslendirilmiş şarkıyı yeniden sesledirerek, müziğe dönüş yaptı. 
Viyana İmprovize Caz Orkestrası eşliğinde yazdığı değişik tekstleri okuduğu ve şarkılar seslendirdiği konserler verdi. Doğaçlama sokak tiyatrosu yapan bir tiyatronun son dört yıllık projelerinde şarkı ve tekstleriyle performans sergileyen Sakina, 2011 baharında TRİO MARA isimli bir kadın üçlüsü kurdu. Klasik Kürt Müziği eserlerini ve kadınlar tarafından söylenmiş şarkıları piyano ve keman eşliğinde seslendiren sanatçı, geleneksel formları modern formlarla harmanlayarak, deneysel çalışmalar yapmayı ilke edindi. 
Avusturya, Almanya, Hollanda ve Fransa’da çok sayıda solo konserler yapan sanatçı, aynı zamanda Mehmet Akbaş ile de Avrupa’nın değişik ülke ve şehirlerinde ortak konserler yaptı.
Sanatçı, 2012 yılı başında ilk solo çalışması olan ROYÊ Mİ isimli albümü ile dinleyenlerinin karşısına çıktı. 
Gazetecilik ve köşe yazarlığının yanısıra, insan hakları ve kadın hakları aktivisti olan Sakina, 2006 yılından beri Viyana’da çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. 

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SAKINA on iTunes

SAKINA - COMPILATION

Hawer Le/Koma Amed,Evdilmelik şêxbekir.

Sevda Kadını

Cıwan Haco - NIKARIM - http://www.kurtceradyodinle.com

Nizamettin Aric- Lo Miro (Kurdish Ballads I)

Song about the embattled homeland of the Kurds.
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Music & Lyrics: Mihemed Seyxo
Vocal: Sakina
Kaval: Emrah Oguztürk
Guitar: Koray Berat Sari
Bendir (drum): Orkun Agir

Recording: Live Concert, 28th September 2013, Café ADA, Wuppertal/Germany
Mix & Mastering: Roland Lücke
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Genre: World; Ethno 
Secondary Genre: Mediterian 
Turkey /Germany / Netherlands
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SAKINA & ROYE MA: MESOPOTAMIAN CROSSROADS 
WORLD MUSIC FROM TURKEY, ARMENIA AND KURDISTAN

SAKINA & ROYE MA take their audience on a journey into ancient and new Mesopotamia. With sensitivity and poignancy they revive new worlds of sound from their region.
The Quartett take their audience on a journey into ancient and new Mesopotamia. With sensitivity and poignancy they revive new worlds of sound from their region. The ballads and melodies reflect the life in their native country and the suffering and melancholy of the people, while honoring their hopes and dreams. SAKINA combines regional styles of singing with traditional and experimental techniques, interpretive, contemporary, ever searching for new ways. SAKINA has a story to tell, the timbre of her voice impresses and convinces. Her life is further comfirmation. Having grown up in a musical family, the mystical sounds of her alevitic environment engaged her interest very early, followed by classical music, Jazz and Latin-American sounds. EMRAH OGUZTÜRK is recognized as an virtuoso for middle eastern wind instruments who plays the Mey and Zurna as well as the Kaval and Duduk. He is also at home with the Greek gaida. KORAY BERAT SARI and ORKUN AGIR are adept in building an musical bridge with Saz and Guitar between tradition and modernity; virtuous, uncompromising, always trusting new intuitions.
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Booking: John Tobisch-Haupt, c/o KOevent, e.Mail: booking@ko-event.com


ROYE MA on iTunes

SAKINA & ROYE MA - Gul u Xwin - Blood and Roses - Live

Serap Sönmez - Qîza Helebçê

Vocal: Sakina
Guitar, Baglama, E-Bass, Percussion: Koray Berat Sari
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Music & Lyrics: Sakina
Arrangement: Koray Berat Sari
Recording: Philipp Bardenberg & Koray Berat Sari
Mix & Mastering: Hakan Eren
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SAKINA - Bihar (Spring)

Mizgin Tahir ( Omeri ) - Xeftano

Grup Munzur - Silîye

Miço Kendeş - Yarê Yarê

Ciwan Haco - Diyalog ( li vir im )

youtube.com/watch?v=IbvV4DGwyYs

Yunus Dişkaya || Hey Hewar

Record: Live Concert, Akzent Theatre, Vienna, 2010 
Music &amp; Lyrics: Traditional / Anonymous
Re-Composition: Mehmet Akbas

Vocal: Sakina Teyna &amp; Mehmet Akbas 
Bilur Flute: Metin Yilmaz 
Saz: Umut Yilmaz 
Guitar: Erdem Beyazgül 
Bass-Guitar: Emanuel Stanley 
Drums: Bernhard Spiess 
Piano: Anna Pogosyants

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SAKINA - MEHMET AKBAS - Miro Nina - Live

Vocal: Sakina
Duduk: Ertan Tekin
Cello: Teemu Myöhanen
Violin: Nurê Dilovanî
Guitar: Erdem Beyazgül and Johannes Beer
Bass: Philipp Bardenberg
Drums: Florian Bungardt

Lyrics and Music: Aram Tigran Melikyan
Musical Management: Erdem Beyazgül
Arrangement: Erdem Beyazgül

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This love song has been censored and was excluded from the album by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, because Aram Tigran had not transferred the rights to his songs to his family members before he died. This is not an isolated case in the Kurdish music. The suppression of Kurdish culture in Turkey continues. Spread this song, share this song. No chance to the censorship! SAKÎNA

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YARÊ

Yarê bê min çi guneh kir
Ku min ji te heskir
Te þev û roj li min kire sal
Nema min xew kir
Herkesî yarek wê hebu
Min ji xwe þerm dikir
Ax te dilê min revand bir
Qet te þerm nekir
Mi ji bo xwe evîna dilan
Hêlînek çekir
Lê ez bi te pirr ewlebum
Te sebir nekir
Herkesî yarek wê hebu
Min ji xwe þerm dikir
Ax te dilê min revand bir
Qet te þerm nekir

Gotin û Muzîk: Aram Tigran Melikyan

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YARÊ (Truelove)

Truelove, tell me
What is my sin
When I love you
The day, the night
They have become never-ending
I cannot find sleep
Everybody knows a truelove
But I am ashamed of myself
Shamelessly you stole my heart
I built a nest for me
made of the love of the hearts
I trusted you
But you could not wait
Everybody knows a truelove
But I am ashamed of myself
Shamelessly you stole my heart

Lyrics and Music: Aram Tigran Melikyan

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YARÊ (Yar)

Yar söyle ne günah işledim de seni sevdim 
Günüm ve gecem uzayıp yıla döndü
Artık uyuyamaz oldum
Herkesin bir yari vardı ama ben kendimden utandım
Ah sen gönlümü kaçırıp götürdün hiç de utanmadın
Kendime gönüllerin aşkından bir yuva yaptım 
Ben senden cok emindim ama sen sabretmedin
Herkesin bir yari vardı ama ben kendimden utandım
Ah sen gönlümü kaçırıp götürdün hiç de utanmadın

Söz-Müzik: Aram Tigran Melikyan

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SAKINA - Roye Mi - My Soul

Production: KO MUSIC / KOevent / ARC MUSIC
Musical Management: Erdem Beyazgül
Arrangement: Erdem Beyazgül, Nazê Isxan (BEJNÊ, DÎLBER)
Studio: Gotteswegstudio A, The Badroom, Milch-Music
Sound Engineers: Sebastian Blaschke, Hakan Akay, Philipp Bardenberg
Sound Mixer: Sebastian Blaschke, Hakan Akay
Mastering: Michael Schwabe, Monoposto Studios
Guitar, Tembûr (fretted lute), German Flute, Kemane (Viol): Erdem Beyazgül
Bilûr (flute), Davul (drum), Arbane (tambourine): Yasin Boyraz
Duduk, Zurne (oriental flutes): Ertan Tekin
Violin: Nurê Dilovanî
Cello: Teemu Myöhanen
Oboe: Peter Bodner
Qanûn (zither): Muharrem Karakuzu
Piano: Nazê Isxan
Guitar: Johannes Behr
Percussion: Fethi Ak
Bass: Philipp Bardenberg
Drums: Florian Bungardt
Arbane (tambourine): Nurullah Turgut
Background Singers: Mehmet Akbas, Nurê Dilovanî, Nazê Isxan, Erdem Beyazgül, Êvîn
German Translation: John Tobisch-Haupt
English Translation: Klaus Happel
Kurdish Editing: Celîl Kaya, Jan Mîran
Graphic Art: Holger Deilke
Photography: BEATPICS Photography-Levent Canseven
Cover Art: Devrim Sahiner

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SAKINA - 'Roye Mi - Songs From Kurdistan' - Yare

Vocal: Sakina
Piano: Naze Isxan
Violin: Nure Dlovani
Music & Lyrics: Aram Tigran

Sound Engineer: Roland Lücke
TRIO MARA / LIVE RECORDINGS / Rudolf-Oetker-Halle / Bielefeld, Germany /30th September 2012
Mix & Mastering: Roland Lücke

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Booking Contact: 
booking@ko-event.com, Fax: +49 221 168 42 83, John Tobisch-Haupt

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KURDISH ETHNO MEETS CLASSICAL
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Discription & Biography

'Mara' is Zazaki, which is one of the oldest native languages in the Middle East. It means BY US.

Mara draws from the rich treasure of traditional Kurdish songs. They express them anew in their own particular way by contrasting classical and contemporary music. Presented in a way only women can sing them these songs turn into a great experience.

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Sakina
SAKINA began her career self taught, as an autodidact, before she received professional education and voice training.
In the 90′s she was a member of the Mesopotamian Culture Centre, a Kurdish artists association based in Istanbul but acting throughout all of Turkey. Its members suffered various reprisals by the government because of their Kurdish lyrics. Some of them paid their artistic dedication with their lives.
During this time she organized many (due to the government led forbiddance of the Kurdish language until the late 90s) illegal concerts, until eventually she was forced to flee.
She continued her work in Armenia, Syria and Kurdish-Irak.
Currently she is living in Vienna.
Since 2008 she has become increasingly involved with human rights issues in particular women’s rights issues.
She views her music as a way portraying the life of people in the Kurdish regions. She realizes this with a sensitive performance of striking melodies by which suffering and melancholy, courage for life and yearning become palpable.

Naze Isxan
Naze Isxan began to play piano at the age of six. The pianist graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Krasnodar as a concertmaster and music teacher. Since the end of the nineties, she has given concerts in Russia at first and since 2001 she also appears on a regular basis in other European countries. 
She has a passion for Kurdish music that she would like to introduce to a wider non-Kurdish audience in her concerts. Therefore, she also arranged traditional Kurdish melodies for piano and published the first Kurdish music book for piano in 2004 (Evina Kurdistane - Bona Pianoforte).

Nure Dlovani
Nure Dlovani is a solo violinist who also works as a teacher for violin and piano. She received her professional education at the conservatories in Moscow, Erevan, and Frankfurt. 
Her repertory is rich and comprises classical music and pop as well as sound tracks or crossover performances with the New Philharmonics in Frankfurt. She also works with a variety of well-known Kurdish musicians both in the studio and as a solo violinist in live concerts.

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TRÎO MARA
Trîo Mara ku ji jinan pêk tê û stranên jinan bi înstrumentên klasîk ên rojava û teknîkên deng ê gelerî ji nu ve sirove dike, di kemanê de ji Nurê Dilovanî, di piyanoyê de ji Nazê Îsxan, di stranbêjî de ji Sakîna pêk tê. Rewîtiya Trîo Mara ya mûzîkê berê salek û nîv destpê kir. 
“MARA” bi zaravêya zimanê Kurdî Kirmanckî de tê wateya “Ji Me”. Gelek zimanên din ên Rojhilata Navîn de pêyva “ma” pêyvêk mê ye. Bi Kirmanckî û Ermenîkî tê wateya dê. Mara bi Erebî tê wateya Jin. 
Trîo Mara li keleka sê zaravên zimanê Kurdî, bi Tirkî, bi Ermenîkî û bi Azerî jî stranan dibeje. Endamên Trîo Mara bawer dikin ku sînorên ku deshilatdaran di nava gelande ava kirine bi rêya mûzîkê ku bi xwe zimanek taybete û herkes dikare tê bigîhe ji holê radibin. Bi israrek mezin divê mirov bi zimanê astiyane ya mûzîkê bi pêyîve. 
Her sê hunermendên jin, di stranên xwe de qasê trajedîya gelê Kurd û jinan, heman demê, evîn, sahî û cosî, ês û janên civata xwe jî dixwazin bînin ziman. Hember nêrînên deshilatdar ya zîhniyeta mêran dixwazin bibin dengê jinên ku naxwazin bê deng bimînin. 
Stranên TRÎO MARA ji me wek bêhnek, deng û awazek û rîtmek, ji were bibin xelat. Em hêvîdarin ku hin caran we li serê çiyayên bilind û asîde, hin caran li keleka çemên dîn û har diherikin de, hin caran dêstên bê dawî de derxînin rewîtiyêk xwes ê bi mûzikê re.

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TRIO MARA
Kadinlardan olusan, kadinlar tarafindan söylenmis sarkilari klasik bati müzigi enstrümanlari ve geleneksel ses teknikleriyle yeniden yorumlayan TRIO MARA, kemanda Nurê Dilovanî, piyanoda Nazê Îsxan, vokalde de Sakîna'nin yer aldigi bir üçlü olarak müzikal yolculuguna bir seneyi askin bir süre önce basladi.
MARA, Ortadogu’nun kadim dillerinden biri olan Kürtçe’nin Kirmanckî lehçesinde “Bizden„ anlamina gelirken, Ortadogu dillerinin birçogunda da birbirine yakin disil anlamlar tasir. Ma, Ermenice ve Kirmanckî'de köken olarak ana anlamina gelir. Ayrica Arapça'da MARA kadin demektir. 
Kürtçe'nin Kurmancî, Kirmanckî ve Soranî lehçelerinin yanisira, Türkçe, Azerice ve Ermenice sarkilar da seslendiren TRIO MARA, halklarin kültürleri arasinda olusan yapay sinirlarin ortak bir dil olan müzik yoluyla anlamsiz kilinabilecegine ve israrla müzigin barisçil diliyle konusmak gerektigine inaniyor. 
Yüzyillardir savaslarin, kanin, gözyasi ve acinin dinmek bilmedigi Kürdistan’dan gelen TRIO MARA üyeleri, repertuarlarinda kadinlarin ve halklarin trajedilerini yansitan sarkilar kadar, asklarini, coskularini, yasam biçimlerini yansitan sarkilara da yer veriyor. 
TRIO MARA, egemen bakis açilari ve yargilari karsisinda susmayan kadinlarin sesi olmayi amaçliyor. 
TRIO MARA sarkilari bizden size bir nefes, bir ses, bir ritm olarak gelsin. Kah vahsi dag baslarinda, kah coskun irmak kenarlarinda, kah uçsuz bucaksiz ovalarda, müzikle güzel bir yolculuga çikmaniz dilegiyle.

TRIO MARA - Xemili Zozan

Sakina was born into a Kurdish Alevite family in the small town of Varto in Turkey. As a teenager she started singing with Turkish choirs and bands, but it wasn’t until she entered university that she became acquainted with Kurdish musical traditions and set out to defy cultural assimilation. In 1991 she joined the Mespotamian Cultural Centre in Istanbul, a proponent of Kurdish culture, as a vocalist. Like many other Kurdish musicians, she was forced to literally go underground to practise her music and soon she had to choose political activism over art.

It wasn’t until Sakina arrived to Austria as a political refugee in 2006 that she took to singing as a full-time pursuit again. The first fruit of her concentrated creative efforts were released in the form of her first solo album ROYÊ MI, globally distributed by ARC Music.

Sakina joined forces with pianist Nazê Îşxan and violinist Nurê Dilovanî to form the all-female TRIO MARA, drawing on traditional Kurdish songs mainly sung by and handed down from woman to woman, enrichening the material with Western classical and contemporary approaches. In 2013 the trio released their first album DERI / BEHIND THE DOORS, recorded live at the Rudolf Ötker Hall in Bielefeld. The album was distributed by AHENK MÜZIK and earned the trio a wider acknowledgement. They were included in the portfolio of the Secretary of Culture of North-Rhine Westfalia and publicly commissioned to tour a number of venues in the region.

Since 2013 Sakina works with another group, the ANADOLU QUARTETT, touring Austria and Germany. Their first tour is successfully documented in the form of the live album KÖPRÜ/THE BRIDGE (Ahenk Müzik), a recording that reached a large audience and garnered the group critical recognition.

On top of all that, Sakina has established the Vienna-based ensemble “Sakina & Friends” featuring musicians from Iran, Spain, Austria and Turkey. They regularly perform throughout Austria, where Sakina appears on a lot of album projects and concert bills, never tired to support other artists.

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