Melike Tarhan is a Turkish musical artist.

Education

Tarhan was a scholarship student at Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated from Ghent University

Ghent University

Ghent University is a Dutch-speaking public university located in Ghent, Belgium. It is one of the larger Flemish universities, consisting of 32,000 students and 7,100 staff members. The current rector is Paul Van Cauwenberge.It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands...

's English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and German language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 department in 2002.

Career

While in Berlin, she took singing lessons from Claudia Herr, and took lessons in Indian singing techniques with Mahabub Khan'dan. In 2004 at Ghent University, she studied under the Italian singing teacher Mireille Capelle, and in 2005-2006 she participated in courses with Guidon Sax in the United States.

Albums

April 2004, her first album, called Macar, was released in Paris on the Long Distance / Harmonia label.

The album is named after Macar, a boy from the village of Emirdağ

Emirdag

Emirdağ is a town and district of Afyonkarahisar Province in Turkey, between the city of Afyon and Eskişehir. It covers an area of 2,009 km², and the population is 42,111 of which 19,991 live in the town of Emirdağ itself. The mayor is Cengiz Pala .The Emirdağ Mountains rise steeply behind...

. He goes away to fight in the Gallipoli Campaign, part of World War I. His mother sees him in a dream, returning home on a white horse and handing his sword on the wall. The boy never returns.

Çanakkale nerde Suvermez nerde

Her ana dayanmaz bu zalım derde

Ahmed'in babasız eğlenmez evde

Yoksa yavrum seni vurdular m'ola

Kefensiz gabire goydular m'ola

Hücum etmiş Alamanın zabiti

Yavrumun kefeni asker kabutu

Salına girmeye yoktur tabutu

Yoksa yavrum seni vurdular m'ola

Kefensiz gabire goydular m'ola

External links

• Official personal site