"Ciwan Haco"
"Ciwan Haco"
Ciwan Haco (born 1957) is a Kurdish singer. He was born near Qamishlo in Syria. His grandfather was originally from Mardin, Turkey. After finishing high school, he left for Germany in order to continue his studies. He studied music at the University of Bochum for three years. He is now residing in Sweden.
Ciwan Haco is one of the very first Kurdish singers to combine Kurdish folk music with western style pop music, rock, blues and jazz. To date he has released 14 albums and a live VCD and DVD of his famous Batman concert of 2003, which was attended by more than 200,000 people. Ciwan Haco is known for his lyrics that are often purposely simple and to which the main recurrent theme is love, with variations around this same theme. The main song from his last album Off (2006), Li hêviya te (Waiting for you) features vocals in both Kurmanci and French language (the latter being sung by a female vocalist).
Similar to other famous Kurdish musicians like Şivan Perwer, Haco sometimes uses poems by famous Kurdish poets such as Cegerxwîn or Qedrîcan in his songs. He has also recorded one of the novels of Mehmed Uzun named Destana Egîdekî.
Very popular in the Kurdish diaspora as with the Kurdish people in the Middle East, Ciwan Haco has given concerts in many parts of Europe.
Albums:
Emîna Emîna (1970)
Pêşmerge (1979)
Diyarbekîr (1981)
Gûla Sor (1983)
Leyla (1985)
Girtîyên Azadîyê (1987)
Çaw Bella (1989)
Sî û Sê Gule (1991)
Dûrî (1994)
Bilûra Min (1997)
Destana Egîdekî (1998)
Derya (2003)
Konsera Batmanê (2003) (VCD & DVD)
Na Na (2004)
Off (2006)
Veger (2012)