Arif Şentürk
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Arif Şentürk traditional folk singer and compiler. He is known as a singer who performs on the Balkan ethnical music.

Life

Arif Senturk was born in Kumanova
Kumanova
Kumanova may refer to one of the following*A Bulgarian surname, the feminine form from "Kumanov"**Ahinora Kumanova, a Bulgarian-German singer*Alternative spelling for Kumanovo, a city in the Republic of Macedonia...

 city of Macedonia, immigrated with his family to Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 in 1956 after graduating Turkish
Turkish language
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 primary school in Macedonia. First, his family settled in Kirklareli
Kirklareli
Kırklareli is the capital of Kırklareli Province in Eastern Thrace, on the European part of Turkey. The province has a coastline on the Black Sea. There is a Jewish community.-Name:It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name...

 after that they moved to Zeytinburnu
Zeytinburnu
Zeytinburnu is a working class neighbourhood, municipality and district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, on the shore of the Marmara Sea just outside the walls of the ancient city, beyond the fortress of Yedikule...

 district of Istanbul
Istanbul
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. Once he worked as a barber in Zeytinburnu. He attended Bakirkoy
Bakirköy
This article is about a neighbourhood in IstanbulBakırköy is a neighborhood, municipality and district on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey. The quarter is densely populated, has a residential character and is inhabited by a middle class population...

 and Yesilkoy
Yesilköy
Yeşilköy is a neighborhood of the Bakırköy municipality of Istanbul, Turkey.It is located along the Marmara Sea about 11 kilometers west of Istanbul's historic city center...

 Music Community Home. Arif Senturk took the examination of the TRT Amateur Singers and won it. He was endorsed by Nida Tufekci.

Arif Senturk, who is known compiling a lot of traditional Rumelian Turkish, Macedonian, Albanian and Gypsy folk songs, has 12 albums. The most famous songs of him are Deryalar, Ramize, Safiye, Debreli Hasan, Ani Mor Hatixhe, Oj Kosovo and Bitola Moj Roden Kraj composed by Ajri Demirovski
Ajri Demirovski
Ajri Demirovski was born in the Macedonian city of Bitola into an impoverished family. He worked as an apprentice in a barbershop until the end of WWII, after which Ajri became the first student from Bitola to attend the Graphical School in Zagreb to study the craft of printing.After his...

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Discography

Meliha, December 23, 2008

Kına Havası, December 24, 1998

Nazikem, June 4, 1990

Deryalar, January 9, 1987

Hamdi, January 9, 1987

Yemen, January 9, 1987
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