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About Ahmet Kaya
Hometown
TR
Born
October 28, 1957
Genre
Halk
Ahmet Kaya nicknamed himself The Kurd of Turkey.
∙ At age six, he began playing the bağlama, a stringed folk instrument made from wood.
∙ In 2012, Kaya received the coveted Special Prize from the Turkish Association of Magazine Journalists.
∙ In 1999, during his acceptance speech for Musician of the Year, he announced that he would record a song in Kurdish, for which he was verbally and physically attacked after leaving the podium.
∙ After Kaya’s death, he was honored with Turkey’s Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Award.
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