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Ahmet Kaya

1957 - 2000

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Ahmet Kaya (28 October 1957 – 16 November 2000) was a Turkish–Kurdish folk singer. Kaya was persecuted by Turkish nationalist celebrities and authorities. Kaya left Turkey in an act of self-exile, and moved to France, where he would shortly after die of a heart attack. He was granted the Musician of the Year Award in February 1999 during a controversial award ceremony involving Turkey's most popular singers, at which he declared that he wanted to sing a song in Kurdish. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmet Kaya is the 474th most popular singer (down from 383rd in 2019), the 677th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 604th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Ahmet Kaya ranks 474 out of 4,381. Before him are Bill Withers, CeeLo Green, Zeynab Khanlarova, Kemal Monteno, Alfredo Kraus, and Renato Carosone. After him are GZA, Vera Lynn, Lil Jon, Ghena Dimitrova, Violetta Villas, and Fritz Wunderlich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Ahmet Kaya ranks 92. Before him are Caroline Kennedy, Mark Eaton, Emmanuel Carrère, Fred Vargas, Antonio Cabrini, and Mikhail Kasyanov. After him are Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Paweł Pawlikowski, Tony Martin, Timothy Spall, Joaquim de Almeida, and Ikuo Takahara. Among people deceased in 2000, Ahmet Kaya ranks 86. Before him are Franck Pourcel, Baden Powell, Teruki Miyamoto, Phạm Văn Đồng, José Águas, and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. After him are Yehuda Amichai, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Pierre Plantard, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, Philippe Chatrier, and Roger Peyrefitte.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ahmet Kaya ranks 677 out of 1,347. Before him are Alexander of Tralles (525), Alexander of Jerusalem (200), Aquila of Sinope (100), Bion of Smyrna (-300), Diodorus Cronus (-400), and Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria (1134). After him are Archippus (50), Anna Dalassene (1030), Missak Manouchian (1906), Alexios IV of Trebizond (1382), Tuncel Kurtiz (1936), and Andronikos II of Trebizond (1240).

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Among SINGERS In Türkiye

Among singers born in Türkiye, Ahmet Kaya ranks 5. Before him are İbrahim Tatlıses (1952), Bülent Ersoy (1952), Sezen Aksu (1954), and Ajda Pekkan (1946). After him are Darío Moreno (1921), Leyla Gencer (1928), Sertab Erener (1964), Cem Karaca (1945), Roza Eskenazi (1895), Serhat (1964), and Şivan Perwer (1955).

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