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About Turhan Taşan
- Turhan Tasan (born 1948) is a Turkish musician.
- His songs have been released on 117 records and cassette tapes. Born on 13 August 1948 in Samsun, Tasan graduated from the Management and Accounting Department of the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences.
- When he was 18 years old a record was made of his first composition, a song.
- 51 of Tasan’s songs are in the TRT Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) repertory.
- Of these, five are Tape Monitored and in the Light Turkish Art Music Repertory. As a writer of lyrics and composer, he has been honored ten times in polls conducted by the newspaper Milliyet to choose the Ten Favorite Songs of the Year.
- The songs in question are “Kalp Kalbe Karsi Derler” (Heart Beats With Heart) (1984), “Ayni Çati Altinda” (Under The Same Roof) (1987), “Üzüldügün Seye Bak” (Just Look What You’re Grieving Over) (1990), “Öptüm Yanaklarindan” (Here’s A Kiss For Your Cheeks) (1990), “Biraz Geç Kalmadin Mi?” (Aren’t You Just A Little Bit Late?) (1991), “Sarsam Diyorum” (Oh I Want To Embrace You) (1992), “Oldu mu ya” (Is That Any Way?” (1995 and 1999) and “Gözlerin Kaldi” (You’re Eyes Remain) 1998. In addition, “Ayni Çati Altinda” won a Hürriyet Newspaper “Golden Butterfly” award in 1987, and in 1990 “Sarsam Diyorum” received Honorable Mention in TRT’s Turkish Art Music Composition Contest (in this contest no entry took First, Second or Third Prize.) Then in 2004, Tasan was awarded Honorable Mention in the TRT Alaturca Composition Contest for a song entitled “Bir Ask Gerçek, Bir de Ölüm” (Only Love Is Real, That And Death). Tasan is married with two children.
- Having worked for 25 years in the private sector, he retired in 1995 under terms of the “Law Governing Artists’ Debt.”
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