Ayla Dikmen
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Ayla Dikmen was a Turkish
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 singer.

Biography

Born in Kütahya
Kütahya
Kütahya is a city in western Turkey with 212,444 inhabitants , lying on the Porsuk river, at 969 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Kütahya Province, inhabited by some 517 804 people...

 on 25 March 1944, Dikmen began her professional singing career with Yavuz Özışık. She met Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu behind the scenes at a radio program and joined his orchestra under the stage name "Parla Nur". She was selected the best female singer at the second Boğaziçi Music Festival in 1964. In 1965, she won the Balkan Melodileri Festival with the song Niksar'ın Fidanları. Dikmen went onto have a successful music career with several hits like Niksar'ın Fidanları, Yanan Mum, Anlamazdın, Nereye, Aşk Defteri ve Zehir Gibi Aşkın Var.

Ayla died of cervix cancer in 1990 at the age of 46.

Her hit song Anlamazdın was widely used in Çağan Irmak
Cagan Irmak
Çağan Irmak is a Turkish film and television writer and director, who has managed to attract a large audience in Turkey and is best known for the TV series Çemberimde Gül Oya and Asmalı Konak , and for the hit films Alone and My Father and My Son , for which he received Turkish Cinema Writers...

's 2008 film Issız Adam and interestingly topped the charts 32 years after it was first released.

45's

  • Niksarın Fidanları / Ay Kız Adın Yamandır (1966)
  • Merdiven / Mühür Gözlüm (1967)
  • Ayrılık Şarkısı / Seninleyim (1968)
  • Sensiz Yaşayamam / Nereye (1970)
  • Gençlik Gençlik / Sakın Karşımda Ağlama (1970)
  • Yanan Mum / Al Yanaklım (1971)
  • Asker Mektubu / Of Aman, Aman (1971)
  • Kime Ne Düştü / Hadi Gidelim (1972)
  • Bir Gölge Gibi / Sevmeden Kimse Seni (1972)
  • Sus Arkadaş / Sonsuz Keder (1973)
  • Aşk Defteri / Öpücük (1974)
  • Yolcu Yolunda Gerek / Kalbime Kanımla Yazdım Adını (1974)
  • Çoban Pınarı / Ay Ay Ay (1975)
  • Yeniden seveceğim / Kim Dinler Sizi (1975)
  • Hu Bismillah / Anlamadın Mı (1976)
  • Benim Kaderim Bu / Hadi İçelim (1976)
  • Onu Bunu Bilmem Kararlıyım / İlk Ve Son Aşkımsın (1978)

Posthumous Albums

  • Seninle Sonsuza Kadar (MCC Müzik-2007)
  • Ayla Dikmen Klasikler (MCC Müzik-2008)

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