- Aşık Mahzuni Şerif
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Aşık Mahzuni Şerif (17 November 1940 — 17 May 2002), also known as Mahsuni Şerif, was a folk musician, ashik, composer, poet, and author from Turkey.[1]
Mahzuni Şerif was born in Berçenek village of Afşin, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey in 1940.[2][3] The word Aşık preceding his name is a title used to indicate his position as a respected musician, but also indicates his affiliation with the Alevi variety of Shi'a Islam.
He became one of Turkey's best-known musical interpreters, and brought strong intellectual and social elements into Turkish folk music and folk poetry. He died on 17 May 2002 in Porz, Köln, Germany, four days after his arrival for medical care about his heart problems.
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Chronology
- 1950: He finished primary school in Berçenek and continues Elbistan Alembey village in Kahramanmaraş, where he learns to read and write in old Turkish language.
- 1957: He visited Mersin Astsubay school (military school).
- 1960: He started Ankara technique military school but was discarded due to undisciplinary actions.
- 1961 From this time forward he starts producing music cassettes and LPs.
His writings become more widely known.
- 1972: His house in Gaziantep was set in fire and his entire archive was burned.
- 1989-1991: Aşık Mahzuni was chosen head of Halk Ozanları Derneği (Association of Turkish ashiks).
- 1997: He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and he was examined in Ulm, Germany.
- 1998: He becomes proprietor of 58 cassettes and 8 books. In several international countries his music was covered in other languages.
- 2001: He was accused by the DGM (Turkey's State Security Court) of one of his sayings.[1] However no penalty was attributed thereafter.
- 2001: In the late 2001 he has suffered from heart problems and a heart attack.
- 2002: He died in Köln while under medical supervision for 4 days.
Poems
Asking and Asking
Asking and Asking____
Made my mind go foolish
By hitting it on the stones
I looked for my dear fellow
By asking and asking to all
Some light out, some go out
Some get up, some get down
The palaces turn into ruins
Enduring to all
Enter Mahzuni into the friend’s affection
Snow fell on the mountain of friends
My youth in my life’s period
Is wounded all
The Order of this Earth
The order of this earth is not smooth
I shall not spend it with false words
I may not execute myself
Because of my conscience
The tears drop into myself
How hard is the parch stone
I may not see the bird in the Erciyes Mountain
Because it’s blind-eyed
I have no strength besides
I planted crops but could not harvest them
The rulers decided on the order when I’m faultless
I cannot leave the friend, Mahzuni[4]
References
Turkish Literature Folk Aşık Mahzuni Şerif · Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu · Dadaloğlu · Erzurumlu Emrah · Gevheri · Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli · Karacaoğlan · Kaygusuz Abdal · Nasreddin · Neşet Ertaş · Pir Sultan Abdal · Seyrani · Yunus EmreMedieval and
OttomanImadaddin Nasimi · Fuzûlî · Bâkî · Nef‘î · Nedîm · Şeyh Gâlib · Evliya Çelebi · Kâtib Çelebi · Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi · Aşık Çelebi · Ziya Pasha · Şemsettin Sami · Namık Kemal · Ahmed Midhat Efendi · Tevfik Fikret · Cenâb Şehâbeddîn · Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil · Ahmet Haşim · Ömer Seyfettin · Mehmet Emin Yurdakul · Ali Canip Yöntem · Mirza Habib Esfahani · Fatma Aliye TopuzContemporary Halide Edip Adıvar · Reşat Nuri Güntekin · Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu · Mehmet Fuat Köprülü · Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı · Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar · Orhan Kemal · Murathan Mungan · Orhan Hançerlioğlu · Samim Kocagöz · Semiha Ayverdi · Tarık Buğra · Yusuf Atılgan · Yaşar Kemal · Fakir Baykurt · Bilge Karasu · Oğuz Atay · Tomris Uyar · Ahmet Altan · Orhan Pamuk · Elif Şafak · Memduh Şevket Esendal · Kenan Hulusi Koray · Sait Faik Abasıyanık · Kemal Tahir · Haldun Taner · Aziz Nesin · Suut Kemal Yetkin · Sabahattin Ali · Kemal Bilbaşar · Cemil Meriç · Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın · Nurullah Ataç · Behçet Necatigil · Necati Cumalı · Ayfer Tunç · Yekta Kopan · Ahmet Kutsi Tecer · Şevket Süreyya Aydemir · Mehmet Emin Yurdakul · Ziya Gökalp · Orhan Veli Kanık · Oktay Rıfat Horozcu · Melih Cevdet Anday · Nazım Hikmet · Rıfat Ilgaz · Cemal Süreya · İlhan Berk · Turgut Uyar · Edip Cansever · Ece Ayhan Çağlar · Sezai Karakoç · Tevfik Akdağ · Ülkü Tamer · Neyzen Tevfik · Ahmet Haşim · Yahya Kemal Beyatlı · Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar · Orhan Seyfi Orhon · Enis Behiç Koryürek · Halit Fahri Ozansoy · Yusuf Ziya Ortaç · Muammer Lütfi Bakşi · Necip Fazıl Kısakürek · Vasfi Mahir Kocayürek · Sabri Esat Siyavuşgil · Cevdet Kudret · Yaşar Nabi Nayır · Ahmet Muhip Dıranas · Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı · Ziya Osman Saba · Faik Baysal · Salah Birsel · Özdemir Asaf · N. Abbas Sayar · Can Yücel · Attilâ İlhan · Güven Turan · İsmet Özel · Cem Uzungüneş · Mehmet Altun · Mehmet Erte · Küçük İskender · Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel · Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca · Yusuf Atılgan · Murat Gülsoy · Ayşe Kulin · Yılmaz OnayExternal links
- Mahzuni Şerif on Turkuler.com
- www.turkudostlari.net/search.asp?a=1130&x=1 List of his songs with links to the lyrics
Categories:- 1940 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Kahramanmaraş Province
- Alevi singers
- Turkish folk poets
- Turkish male singers
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