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Pop Music Tarkan Biography Part 2 Related: Tarkan, Turkey's King of Pop -- A Christmas Day Album Release (with our English translation of its hit single) Tarkan... Turkey's Pop Music Phenom Tarkan's All-English Music Album, 2006 A 'Classic' Tarkan Sound Clip -- Şimarik! (from 1999) Highest Paid Turkish Performers When Tarkan Stirred the 'Armenian Genocide' Pot... Tarkan Flops in France Emre, Hadise, and Tarkan steal the Beauty Pageant show... Tarkan's entry on the Who's Who page A Pop Music Star's Roots An original biography by Jim and Perihan Masters Born Tarkan Tevetoğlu to Turkish emigrant parents in 1972, Tarkan grew up in Germany. In 1986, he returned 'home' to Turkey to study music -- and by the time he was 16 he was a regular (albeit illegal) pop music performer in Istanbul bars and clubs. In 1993, he met Mehmet Sögütoğlu (owner of Istanbul Plak, a prominent Turkish pop music record company) who made him a pop star. His debut pop music album Yine sensiz ('Without you again') sold 700,000 copies. His second music-album Acayipsin ('You're sensational!') sold more than 2,000,000 copies in Turkey and 700,000 copies in Europe -- a first-time-ever feat for a Turkish pop music performer. After his 'urinary' gaffe in 1994, Tarkan spent time in the USA where he met Ahmet Ertegün (the Turkish owner of Atlantic Records). Ertegün has been quietly grooming Tarkan for an American pop music career, ever since. In 1997, after a 3-year break, Tarkan released his third Turkish-language music album -- and on the tour that followed, he filled the Hippodrome in London, the Bataclan in Paris, and the Arena in Berlin. When the music album single was released, it reached No. 3 in France -- and No.1 in Belgium and Germany. Following Tarkan's latest Turkish-language CD album in the spring of 2000 -- there was supposed to be an English-language release too, but it's been delayed. Fans of Turkish pop music are drooling in anticipation. Update -- 28 March 2006 The wait finally is over! Tarkan's first all-English-language Pop Music album... Note: A version of the above article by Jim and Perihan Masters first appeared on the eStart website... Right click to 'View' or 'Zoom' image enlargement... Related: Tarkan... Turkey's Pop Music Phenom Tarkan's All-English Music Album, 2006 A 'Classic' Tarkan Sound Clip -- Şimarik! (from 1999) Highest Paid Turkish Performers When Tarkan Stirred the 'Armenian Genocide' Pot... Tarkan Flops in France Emre, Hadise, and Tarkan steal the Beauty Pageant show... Tarkan's entry on the Who's Who page Other Related: Barış Manço - Dağlar, Dağlar song clip Kayahan's mega-hit 'Yok Arkadaş' Zeki Müren -- the Sorma album Unrelated fun: Traditional Turkish Humor 1 Traditional Turkish Humor 2 Habibullah and The Great Cannon Caper Turkish Tongue Twisters Turkish Belly Dancers Turkish Terms Of Endearment Turkish Personal Names Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Off-Color Turkish Turkish Movies Catalog, Letter-A Turkish Kinsey Report #1 - Turkey opens up about its seks Turkish Kinsey Report #2 - Did they hear it through the grapevine? Turkish Kinsey Report #3 - Was it good for you? Turkish Kinsey Report #4 - The first time, by age group... Turkish Kinsey Report #5 - Who's gotta have it? He? Or she?

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