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Suna Alan - Suna Alan "Ninnaye" Live at The Royal Festival Hall

from International Sounds of Summer 2018 by Best Foot Music

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Ninnaye:  A Kurdish folk song in Zazaki dialect from Bingol province / Turkey Kurdistan. It was used to be sung as lullaby by mothers.
The lyrics somehow sound funny however when you think of the village life and how people’s lives are surrounded by nature and how the other things such as love, hate and etc are related to the nature, it really does start to make sense. They say: 
The crops are growing
She is watering them
The father of the girls, teres (the son of the dog) doesn’t give consent for his youngest daughter to marry me
Come; let's go to up to the village
The young boys have shaped their moustaches
And the girls have made their eyebrows

Suna Alan is a Kurdish/Alevi singer and journalist based in London. She was born in the mountainous province of Çewlik (Bingol), an ancient Kurdish and Armenian province in Northern Kurdistan (officially Turkey). Her family moved to Smyrna (Izmir) in her early childhood which meant that much of her formative years were spent surrounded by traditional Kurdish dengbêj (*bard) music and Kurdish-Alevi laments within a rich cosmopolitan cultural environment. Since Ottoman times, Smyrna (Izmir) has indeed embraced a myriad of ethnic and religious communities people such as Kurdish, Greek, Albanian, Circassian, Armenian, Sephardic, Christian, Alevi. This led Suna to incorporate stories from many other ethnic and religious identities in her music. Her musical journey led to London where she has been working with musicians from various nationalities. Although her main focus remains Kurdish folk songs from the four regions of Kurdistan namely Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey, her repertoire also includes Armenian, Greek, Sephardic and Turkish songs.

As a journalist, she is also involved in fighting many causes including Human and Women’s rights as well as the protection of the environment.



For more info, please visit
www.sunaalan.net

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from International Sounds of Summer 2018, released July 15, 2018
Suna Alan - Vocals
Huseyin Atasever - Baglama
Volkan Ozdemir - Guitar
Gizem Altinordu - Percussion

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