Esin Engin
Esin Engin (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor.
Esin Engin
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- Name
- Esin Engin
- Born
- 17 May 1945
- Birthplace
- Sivas, Turkey
- Died
- 4 May 1997
- Place of death
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Occupation
- Composer, score composer, arranger, musician
- Nationality
- Turkey
- Fields
- ottoman classical
- Languages
- Turkish
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Esin Engin (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor.
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• Name — Esin Engin • Landscape — yes • Born — 17 May 1945 • Birthplace — Sivas, Turkey • Died — 4 May 1997 • Place of death — Istanbul, Turkey • Instrument — String instruments, vocals • Genre — Turkish pop, folk, tango • Occupation — Composer, score composer, arranger, musician • Years Active — 1968–1996 • Label — EMI Turkey
Biography
Biography
He was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1945 to a family of Crimean Tatar origin. He graduated from North Collins High School in New York, US in 1963. Then he returned to Turkey and completed a journalist degree in Istanbul in 1968.
Actor
Actor
• Seven Ne Yapmaz (1970) • Dert Bende (1973)
Grave of Esin Engin (1945-1997), Turkish composer, arranger, singer and conductor, Zincirlikuyu Cemetery, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Esin Engin was born in Sivas.
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Esin Engin died in Istanbul.
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Sivas.
Birth place
Istanbul.
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Film score composer
• Kanlı Nigar (1981) • Adile Teyze (1983) • Çalıkuşu (1986) • Yeniden Doğmak (1987) • Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen (1987) • Tek Başına Bir Kadın (1988) • Sürgün (a.k.a. "The Banishment") (1992) • Tatlı Betüş (1993)
Discography
• Modern Oyun Havaları (1973) • Anadolu (1973) • Dünden Bugüne (1974) • Modern Oyun Havaları 2 (1975) • Oyun Havaları, Vol. 1 (1989) • Oyun Havaları, Vol. 2 (1995) • Çiftetelli – Oyun Havaları, Vol. 3 • Oyun Havaları, Vol. 4 (1996) • Film Müzikleri, Vol. 1 (1995) • Film Müzikleri, Vol. 2 (2000, posthumous album) • Film Müzikleri, Vol. 3 (2000, posthumous album) • Modern Fasıl (1978) • Nostaljik Fasıl (1992) • Tangolar (1974, reissued in 1996) • Son Tango (1998, posthumous album) • Best of Belly Dance from Turkey • Nostalgic Russian Tzigane (1990) • Gypsy Fire (1990) • Best of Russia
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