Mazlum Çimen is a Turkish

Turkey

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 musician, ballet dancer, film actor, folk singer

Folk Singer

Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...

 and an award-winning film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 composer.

Early life

He was born in Sevdilli village of Elbistan

Elbistan

Elbistan is a district in Kahramanmaraş Province in southern Turkey. Elbistan city center's population is 85,642 ....

 in Kahramanmaraş Province

Kahramanmaras Province

Kahramanmaraş is a province of Turkey. Its provincial capital is Kahramanmaraş city, the traffic code is 46.-Districts:Kahramanmaraş province is divided into 10 districts :*Afşin*Andırın*Çağlayancerit*Ekinözü*Elbistan*Göksun*Kahramanmaraş...

 on June 18, 1958.He is the son of Nesimi Cimen who is a great Ashik, songwriter and Cura Virtuoso in history. His parents are originating however from Hozat

Hozat

Hozat is a small city and its surrounding district in Tunceli Province of Turkey. It has a population of 4,714. The mayor is Cevdet Konak . Former name of district of Hozat was kaza of Dersim....

 in Tunceli Province

Tunceli Province

The Tunceli Province is a province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The province was named Dersim Province and was changed to Tunceli Province on January 4, 1936. with the "Law on Administration of the Tunceli Province" , no...

.

His family moved to Istanbul

Istanbul

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 as he was still in pre-school age. After Mazlum finished his primary school education, he attended Istanbul State Conservatory

Music school

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 to study violin

Violin

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. Four years later, he switched over to ballet dancing section of the same music school and graduated in 1981. He entered Istanbul State Opera and Ballet as a ballet dancer, where he is still employed.

Music career

Mazlum toured across the country with his father Nesimi Çimen, a well-known folk music

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer, and was so introduced in music composing. He created his first compositions already in 1980. With his music teacher İhsan Yüce's initiation, he stepped into the film music field, where he found the strong support of Onat Kutlar, a poet and co-founder of the Istanbul International Film Festival

Istanbul International Film Festival

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His first commercial compositions were for the film Mem û Zin in 1991 and for the TV mini-series Aysarı'nın Zilleri in 1992. He was awarded three times the Golden Orange

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

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 and twice the Golden Boll

Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival

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 for best film score. In 2008, he received the Best Film Score Award for Nokta at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in France

France

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Beside composing film and TV mini-series score in addition to his primary profession as ballet dancer, Mazlum Çimen plays in movies, sings and records folk music.

Film score

• 68'den 6 Mayıs'a
• Nazım Hikmet Belgeseli
• Mem û Zin (1991)
• Gelincik Tarlası (1993)
• Soğuk Geceler (1994) aka Kalte Nächte
• Hollywood Kaçakları (1996)
• Işıklar Sönmesin (1996)
• Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (2002) aka Hejar or Big Man, Little Love
  Big Man, Little Love
  Big Man, Little Love is a 2001 international co-production drama film, written and directed by Handan İpekçi, about an orphaned Kurdish child and a Turkish pensioner thrown together by circumstance...
  
  or Megali exousia, mikri agapi
• Gönlümdeki Köşk Olmasa (2002) aka Omfavn mig måne or House of Hearts
• Martılar Açken (2002)
• Oyun (2005)
• Solgun Duvarlı Kent (2007)
• Son Cellat (2008)
• Nokta (2008) aka Dot
• Umut (film) (2009)
• Köy (2009) aka The Village

TV mini-series score

• Aysarı'nın Zilleri (1992)
• Berivan (2002)
• Gelin (2003) aka The Bride
• Şıh Senem (2003)
• Hacı (2006) aka Hadji
• Kara Duvak (2007)
• Hanımın Çiftliği (2009)

Theatre music

• Yunus Emre (1989 Diyarbakır State Theatre)
• Ferhat ile Şirin (İstanbul City Theatre)

Actor

• Hababam Sınıfı Güle Güle (1981)
• Hoşçakal Yarın (1998) or Goodbye Tomorrow - Yusuf Arslan
• Gönlümdeki Köşk Olmasa (2002) - Ali
• Anlat İstanbul (2004) - Şehmuz
• Son Cellat (2008) - Ampul Adam
• Yahşi Batı (2009) - Wanted Şerif I
• Umut (2009) - İlyas

Albums

• Çimen Türküleri, Ada Müzik (1995)
• Mem ü Zin, Kalan Müzik
  Kalan Müzik
  Kalan Müzik or Kalan Music for the West is a Turkish independent record label company based in Istanbul. It was founded in 1991 by Hasan Saltık. It specializes in releasing Saltık's recordings of classical and traditional ethnic and folk music from Turkey and the surrounding region. It is sometimes...
  
   (1996)
• Çimen Sesleri, Ada Müzik (2001)
• Feryadı İsyanım, Ada Müzik (2002)
• Buluşmalar, Kalan Müzik (2006)

External links

• Mazlum Çimen at Sinema Türk