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Levent Yüksel is a very famous Turkish pop music singer. He is also a bass guitar player. He performed many songs of other pop music singers as a back vocal singer. Many of his own songs have a special sense of humor. This song is kind of fun. "Bi' Daha" is the story of a husband who drinks with another lady and then regret what he had done.

In the name of this song, we see an apostrophe. This is because we Turks say "bir" (one) some fast, and it becomes as if we said "bi". Because of this contraction, we put an apostrophe in the writing language. "daha" means "more". So "bir daha" means "one more". "tövbe" is "repentance", or as an exclamation: "Never again!". He says "One more? Never again!" :)

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Do you remember Duman? They were very famous with their song Aman Aman some years ago. I remember I put their videoclip on the old website. But we had another song in the new site: Özgürlüğün Ülkesi.

A few months ago, Duman released their new album... Or maybe I should say "new albums" because they released two albums together. Their names are Duman 1 and Duman 2. This song is from their new album: Dibine Kadar "Until The Bottom"

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Manga released their new album Şehr-i Hüzün some months ago. I think it is a depressive album as the name of the album says: "The city of sadness". And it has good songs. This song is Dünyanın Sonuna Doğmuşum (I was born for the end of the world). This song protests the situation of the world, the destruction of the cultural values.

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This is an old song, or as we call: türkü, by Karacaoğlan. It is performed by Orhan Hakalmaz, who is one of my favorite türkü singers :) This is a love song like many other Karacaoğlan songs. You may remember more of his rhytmic songs performed by the band Badem.

In this song, he talks to his heart. He says: "My heart, don't go to foreign lands, because maybe it is not possible to come back. Don't be swayed by all the beauties, maybe it is not possible to love her". I hope you enjoy this touching song.

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Kubat is a Turkish folk music singer and composer. I think he has a very good and strong voice. This song is a sad love song. Yar means beloved, yara means injury, wound. Yar Yarası is the wound of the beloved. I hope you enjoy this song and also clip.

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We grew up suddenly

In this song, Ogün talks about how the world changed since we were children, about the wars and about the wish of peace...

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Kalpsiz means Heartless.

Badem is a nice band that cover old Turkish etnic songs generally. And Özlem Tekin is a cool rocker singer. I like them all but now, they did something new together. I like the song about "an old love". I hope you like as well.Read more

This must be a new band, honestly I haven't heard them before. But when I watched their new clip, I think that may look interesting for you. This is a complex song, it has some different types of technics as instruments and rhytms. It sounds like a bit classic music, on the other way, it is like a Turkish etnic song, "türkü".

The clip is also interesting because it is funny, and looks like a Super Mario game.

Sarı saçlı: (someone) who has yellow hair
ela gözlü: (someone) who has hazel eye
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I introduced Çilekeş in past. Now I want to share my favorte song, Siyah.

Siyah means black. The song is about struggling against to the bad things, dark side of the life. Here is the song and Turkish lyrics and English translation:Read more