Derya Yıldırım
Illustration — Derya Yıldırım with bağlama (2022) Derya Yıldırım (1993 in Hamburg) is a German singer-songwriter, composer and music producer. The multi-instrumentalist is particularly associated with the bağlama. Yıldırım sings in the Turkish language and musically draws on Anatolian folk and pop music.
Derya Yıldırım
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- Nationality
- Turkey · Germany
- Occupation
- singer · bağlama player · composer · musician · guitarist
- Education
- Hamburg University of Music and Drama · Berlin University of the Arts
- Languages
- Turkish · German
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Illustration — Derya Yıldırım with bağlama (2022) Derya Yıldırım (1993 in Hamburg) is a German singer-songwriter, composer and music producer. The multi-instrumentalist is particularly associated with the bağlama. Yıldırım sings in the Turkish language and musically draws on Anatolian folk and pop music.
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She performs together with the band Grup Şimşek or solo, and also works as a lecturer and jury member.
Derya Yıldırım was born in 1993 in Hamburg and grew up in Veddel. She attended music school and learned piano, guitar, oud, bağlama and saxophone. She also sang in a choir. From 2013 to 2016 she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. From 2016 she studied music education at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. She was the only student in Germany with bağlama as her principal instrument, an instrument that has a special tradition among the minority of Alevis native to eastern Anatolia. Yıldırım's teacher was Taner Akyol. At the beginning of her musical career, Yıldırım performed classical Anatolian music together with her cousin Duygu Ağal.
Derya Yildirim während eines Konzerts in München, Strom Club
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- 1.Derya Yildirim. ByteFM.
- 2.Jan Paersch. Derya Yıldırım. Jazz Moves. 2021-11-26.
- 3.Dozierende Weltmusik B.A. - Derya Yıldırım. Popakademie Baden-Württemberg.
- 4.Jan Paersch. Derya Yıldırım: „Ich will nicht das Ghettomädchen sein, das es geschafft hat“. 2019-10-10. 0044-2070.
- 5.Kristina Bischoff. Derya Yıldırım - die "Hamburger Perle". 2023-01-02.
- 6.Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek. laut.de.
- 7.Jan Boller. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – „Yarın Yoksa“ (Rezension) – ByteFM. ByteFM. 2025-03-18.
- 8.Łukasz Tomaszewski. Anadolu-Rock für die Welt von Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek: "Yarin Yoksa". WDR. 2025-03-16.
- 9.Do, 13.3.2025 20 Uhr Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek. Elbphilharmonie. 2025-03-13.
- 10.derya's songbook. Ensemble Resonanz.
- 11.Tássia Assis. 15 Must-Hear Albums Arriving In March 2025: Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Jennie, Lucy Dacus & More. Grammy.com.
- 12.Ammar Kalia. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek: Yarın Yoksa review – a feast of woozy Turkish psych. 2025-03-14. 0261-3077.
- 13.Berlin, Beirut, Hamburg. Junge Welt.
- 14.Die neue Generation des Anadolu Rocks. Renk Magazin. 2019-05-19.
- 15.Die Möllner Briefe. Berlinale.
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