Dilber Ay (born Dilber Bağbuş; 1 January 1956 – 29 April 2019) was a Turkish folk singer, songwriter and TV presenter.
Life
A member of the Kureyşan tribe, Ay was born on 1 January 1956 in
Pazarcık
Pazarcık () is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,253 km2, and its population is 70,173 (2022). It is in the southeastern part of the province. The cement plant is a major source of greenhouse ga ...
to a family of
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish language
** Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji)
**Central Kurdish (Sorani)
**Southern Kurdish
** Laki Kurdish
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern ...
and Yörük descent. She remained in Kahramanmaraş until finishing the third grade of primary school. Her family then moved to
Ankara
Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...
and later settled in
Bolu
Bolu is a city in northern Turkey, and administrative center of the Bolu Province and of Bolu District,Düzce
Düzce () is a city in northwestern Turkey, the capital city of Düzce Province, the eighty-first Provinces of Turkey, province in the country. It is the seat of Düzce District.türkü, called ''Gönül Gel Seninle Muhabbet Edelim'', and won the contest. After giving birth to two children, she separated from the man she was married to. In 1998, she married her second husband, İbrahim Karakaş, who was 15 years her junior. After making her breakthrough on radio, she released 24 albums. She was also sent to prison twice in Germany. Aside from her career as a musician, she presented Flash TV's ''Kadere Mahkûmlar'' program.
Death
A resident of Düzce, Ay suffered from inflammation in her foot after cutting her toenail and died on 29 April 2019 at a hospital in Ankara. Her body was buried on 30 April 2019 at a cemetery in Düzce.