Hasret Gültekin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hasret Gültekin

Turkish musician

Date of Birth: 01-May-1971

Place of Birth: İmranlı, Turkey

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1993

Profession: poet, musician

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hasret Gültekin (1 May 1971 – 2 July 1993) was an Alevi Kurdish musician and poet who was murdered, along with 37 other people, in the Sivas Province of Turkey when a fundamentalist Islamist mob set fire to the Madimak Hotel where he was staying. Gültekin was born in the Han village of Sivas as the third child of Süleyman and Hacihanim Gültekin.
He started playing baglama at the age of six and dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music.
He completed his first album Gün Olaydi (If It Had Been Day) when he was only sixteen years old.
In 1989, he demonstrated his mastery of the selpe technique of baglama on his second album Gece ile Gündüz Arasinda (Between Night and Day).
His third album Rüzgarin Kanatlari (The Wings of the Wind) was released in 1991.
Later that year he married Yeter Gültekin.
On 2 July 1993 he went to Sivas to take part in the Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Festival alongside many other musicians, authors, poets and intellectuals.
He died at the age of 22 during the arson attack on the Madimak Hotel where he was staying.
His wife gave birth to their son, Roni Hasret Gültekin, three months after his death.