Syrian Kurdistan
Despite the lack of any musical educational infrastructure, several famous Kurdish musicians arose from Syria.
Gerabêtê Xaço was a great classical stranbêj, Muradê Kinê (Miradko) was another great stranbêj and kemençe player. Se'îd Yûsif (known as "prince of the biziq") is acclaimed for his unparalleled virtuosity on the biziq and his authentic teqsîms and beautiful song melodies. Mihemed Şêxo was a master of symbolic nationalistic lyrics who was imprisoned several times for expressing his political opinion through his songs. Some other important figures are Aram Tîgran, Mehmûd Ezîz - along with his brother Mihemed Elî Şakir -, Faris Bavê Fîras, Bangîn (Hikmet Cemîl), vocalist Miço Kendes and biziq player Ehmedê Çep. Ciwan Haco has been famous in pop/Westernized Kurdish music, "Şeyda" is locally known for his love songs, Nezir Palo is known for its special texts, music and poetry. Nȗhat is known for his soul music. Adnan babê Hêco is a singer of the many articles written about love. There is also very popular singer from afrin Bave Selah, he is known more from kurdish folk songs and cultural songs. Shero Manan is really famous music artist in Afrin who are known as keyboard player. He has his own music studio. There are also wedding singers who are famous in local city in Afrin, for example: Bave Nur, Abdo Mohamad (who known more better in Finland as pensseli-setä), Zekeriya Dilshad, Jan Boro, Shoresh Bekir, Ciwan Musa, Xebat Teyfur, Ismail Mohamad, Akkash Dildar and many others.
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