Nil Burak
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Pembe Nihal Munsif better known as Nil Burak, is a Turkish Cypriot pop
singer and actress who is famous in Turkey
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, Cyprus
in 1948. She is best known for her hit song Sen de Başını Alıp Gitme
("Don't you run away, too"). Nil Burak is also the winner of 1985 Medifestival from Turkey with Güneş Bir Kere Doğdu ("The sun rose once").
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer and actress who is famous in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
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Biography
She was born in LefkaLefka
Lefka is a town in Northern Cyprus, overlooking Morphou Bay. It is located in the Nicosia District , in the area under Turkish control since the 1974 invasion. In 1997 Lefka had 6,000 inhabitants. The town is the site of the European University of Lefke....
, Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
in 1948. She is best known for her hit song Sen de Başını Alıp Gitme
Sen de Basini Alip Gitme
Sen de Başını Alıp Gitme is Turkish Cypriot pop singer Nil Burak's best known hit song, written by Cem Karaca....
("Don't you run away, too"). Nil Burak is also the winner of 1985 Medifestival from Turkey with Güneş Bir Kere Doğdu ("The sun rose once").
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- Ben Anlamam / Seni İyi Tanırım, ("I don't Understand / I Recognize You Well") (Atlas-1975)
- Bir Eski Şarkı / Birisine Birisine, ("An Old Song / I Fell in Love with Somebody") (Atlas-1975)
- Canıma Değsin - Ya MustafaYa MustafaYa Mustafa, also spelled Ya Mustapha , is a famous Egyptian song of unclear origin, whose lyrics are composed in 3 different languages: Arabic, French and Italian. There are also versions in the Greek and Turkish languages, where they are very popular in the respective countries . The music of the...
, ("It Serves Him Right / Ho Mustafa") (Atlas-1975) - Sus / Tatlı Tatlı, ("Shut Up / Sweet Sweet") (Atlas-1975)
- Dünyamı Yıktı Geçti / Kırk Yılda Bir, ("He Harried My World / Once in a Lifetime") (Yavuz-1977)
- Gözünüz Aydın / Yalnızım Ben, ("I'm Happy for You / I'm Alone") (Yavuz-1978)
Albums (LP/MC/CD)
- Nil Burak (1977), (Atlas-1977)
- Benim Adım Şarkıcı ("My Name is Singer"), (Yavuz-1979)
- İki Elim Yakanda ("My Hands are on Your Collar"), Boş Vere Boş Vere ("Nevermind Nevermind") (Kervan-1980)
- Bizim Diyar ("Our Land"), (Kervan-1981)
- Benim Sevdam ("My Love"), (Yaşar-1984)
- Zurna Kazım ("Shrill Pipe Kazim"), (Göksoy-1988)
- Oldu Olacak ("That was Close"), (Bayar-1989)
- İşte Banko! ("Here is Bank!"), (Raks-1992)
- Nil Burak'95 Akdeniz Rüzgarı ("Nil Burak'95 Mediterranean Wind"), (Göksoy-1995)
- En İyileriyle Nil Burak (1975-1985) (Best of Nil Burak (1975–1985)), (Ossi-2008)
- Bir Numaramsın ("You're My Number One"), (Ossi-2008)
Filmography
- Gülşah ("Gulsah"), (Gülşah Film, 1975)
- Eksik Etek ("Petticoat"), (Film-iş, 1976)
- Merhaba Tatlım (Barış Film-1976)
- Doğru Yoldan Ayrılanlar ("People Who Leave The Right Way"),
- ÇalıkuşuÇalikusuÇalıkuşu, or The Wren, is a novel by Reşat Nuri Güntekin written in 1922, about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher named Feride in Anatolia.-Plot summary:...
("The Wren"), (TRT, 1986) - Kaldırım Çiçeği ("Sidewalk Flower"), (Ulusal TV & Erler Film, 1996)
- Avrupa Yakası (ATV, 2008)
Video
- Birisine Birisine
- Boş Vere Boş Vere
- Bizim Diyar
- Bir Kadın
- Sen de Başını Alıp Gitme
- Güneş Bir Kere Doğdu