ZEKİ MÜREN ‘’ OUR SUN OF ART’’

Zeki Müren was born on December 6, 1931 in the Hisar district of Bursa.

After completing his secondary education in Bursa Tahtakale, he came to Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul Boğaziçi High School with the first place.

He graduated from the Sabih Gözen workshop in the High Decoration Department of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul. During his student years he was good at drawing and opened many exhibitions about drawing.

In 1949, while studying at Boğaziçi High School, he continued his musical education with lessons from Agopos Efendi (the father of cinema director and scriptwriter Alşavir Alyanak) and Udi Kirkor.

He sang various works by Şerif İçli, who knows fasıl music well and has a wide repertoire. He benefited from Refik Fersan, Sadi Işılay and Kadri Sançalar.

He entered Istanbul Radio in 1950 with an exam. He gave his first radio concert in a live program on Istanbul Radio in 1951 and this concert was very much appreciated.

After that, he focused more on stage and record work. He managed to keep the public interest above all the time, with his clothes and stage behavior that pushed the conventions.

Zeki Müren made more than 600 records, cassettes and CDs. The first song he sang on the record is Şükrü Tunar's song with the lyrics "A Lovebird". Müren 1955, "Magnolia he" with the song won the Golden Plaque award given for the first time in Turkey.

Zeki Muren is that most concert singer in Turkey. There have been periods where he gave a hundred concerts a year. He has been given the title of "Art Sun". He has also given many concerts in foreign countries.

Zeki Müren moved away from stage life and music after 1980 due to heart disease and diabetes. He was confined to his house in Bodrum and lived a reclusive life. On Wednesday, September 24, 1996, he died of a heart attack during the ceremony held for him on TRT Izmir Television. His funeral was removed with a great ceremony, with the participation of an unprecedented crowd of people. His grave is in Emir Sultan Cemetery, whose birthplace is Bursa.

Reference: https://www.ensonhaber.com/biyografi/zeki-muren-kimdir-2013-09-17

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 Julian Tuwim 

                            

               

Julian Tuwim was born in Lodz in 1894 to a Jewish family. He graduated from high school in Lodz, where he wrote his first poems. In 1916, Tuwim moved to Warsaw, where he began to study law and philosophy, but quickly gave up studies. He was becoming more and more famous writer there. His poem "Wiosna" published in 1918 became a great event. It was a manifesto of a young artist and man who tounts and unmasks what is known and seen in everyday life. It was the first such a poem written in Poland, so people were surprised and even protested. At that time, the poet also wrote lyrics for the cabaret "Pikador". 

Next poems written by Tuwim, including: "Sokrates tańczący" (1919), "Siódma Jesień" (1921), were also very popular. It was then that the best collections of poems appeared: "Słowa we krwi" (1926), "Rzecz czarnoleska" (1929), "Treść gorejąca" (1936) and a selection of satires "Jarmark rymów” (1934). He was the author of many great poems for children, too. The most popular was “Lokomotywa”, “Ptasie radio”, “Rzepka” or “Okulary”. 

Tuwim spent the war years in exile: in France, then in America. After returning to Poland in 1946, he lived in Warsaw. He wrote fewer poems; pursued other passions. He died suddenly in December 1953 in Zakopane, where he had gone on vacation with his family. 

Tuwim was a great poet who stays in the hearts of Polish people to this day.