Ciwan Haco
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Ciwan Haco (born 1957) is a Kurdish singer. He was born near Qamishlo in Syria. His grandfather was originally from Mardin in Turkish Kurdistan. 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 Norway.
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[edit] His Music
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 to which more than a 200.000 people attended. 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 Kurdish and French language (the latter being sung by a female vocalist).
Not unlike other Kurdish musicians like Şivan Perwer, he sometimes uses poems by famous Kurdish poets such as Cegerxwîn or Qedrîcan in his songs [1],[2]. He has also recorded one of the novels of Mehmed Uzun named Destana Egîdekî [3]
Very popular in the Kurdish diaspora as with the Kurdish people in Kurdistan, Ciwan Haco has held plenty of concerts in many parts of Europe.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Family
Ciwan's parents, Sihadet and Ibrahim has twelve children:
F=Female, M=Male
Ajamê (died at the age of six)F
Dillberê (has written a lot of Ciwan's famous songs) F
Ajamê (named after their first child. Lives in Sweden) F
Nayîf (Died in the war against the turks. Fought for the Kurdish Rights) M
Nûredîn (Lives in Norway) M
Ismahan (Still lives in Syria) F
Ciwan (Lives in Sweden, not Norway)
Xafshê (Lives in Sweden) F
Zînê (Lives in Sweden) F
Perwin (Currently in Norway) F
Ciwan's father, Ibrahim, had another wife before Sihadet, and together they got two children:
Bahîya (Lives in Sweden) F
Gulhat (Lives in Germany) F
Sihadet and Ibrahim moved to Sweden in 2004. In Syria there's difficult for old people to get help daily, so they had to move to Sweden because most of their children live their, and they help their parents with everything today.
Ciwan lives in Sweden, Gävle, today. Together with his Icelandic wife, he has two children: Lorin, 7 and Rosa, 5, both girls. His wife has one boy named Arni, 14.
