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Tarkan Tevetoğlu (born October 17, 1972 in Alzey, West Germany), popularly known as Tarkan, is a successful World Music award-winning pop music singer in Turkey. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 15 million albums sold, and is also involved in producing music through his own music company HITT Music, which he established in 1997. Noted for his live stage performances, the Washington Post has compared Tarkan's effect on Turkey as analogous to Elvis in America circa 1957, while co-founder of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegün described him as one of the best live performers he...

Since his early childhood in Frankfurt, LPs and singles were his favorite toys. His family's interest in music has played a great role on the growth of his love for music. In 1985, the family decided to move to Istanbul where his career as a DJ was going to begin. His professional music career started, when he became a DJ on one of the famous radio stations in Turkey. Right after showing up in the music scene as a radio DJ, he started to perform at the biggest clubs in Istanbul. Running fast in his music career, he had to...

Tárkány Művek plays an organic mix of traditional Hungarian music and contemporary improvistional music that is called jazz nowadays. The main connection is the element of improvisation in both music. In a longer term we try to bring the two styles closer to each other and try to create hungarian contemporary improvisational music based on the living traditions. Most themes are traditional Hungarian folk songs, some are Romanian. The lyrics are writen by Bálint Tárkány-Kovács, the leader of the band, but some text are traditional or writen by the great poet János Pilinszky. The tunes are arranged by Bálint Tárkány-Kovács....