Engin Ayhan (9 January 1984 – 25 December 2020), commonly known as Engin Nurşani, was a
Turkish
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German folk musician
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. He started his music career with the ''Adına Bir Çizik Çektim''
album in 2003, and released eight albums in total until he had
throat cancer in 2019 and took a temporary break from his music career. On 25 December 2020, he died at
Istanbul Acıbadem Altunizade Hospital at around 07:00am (UTC+3).
Life and career
Nursani was born in 1984 as one of two children of a
Kurdish father and a
German mother.
His father, Ali Ayhan (born 1959), is a
folk music artist.
When he was a child, he was trained in music by his father and attended
concerts.
Discography
*''Adına Bir Çizik Çektim'' (2003)
*''Mutlu musun?'' (2004)
*''Sen Nefsine Köle Oldun'' (2006)
*''Üç Ozan Üç Oğul'' (2008)
*''Üç Ozan Üç Oğul 2'' (2011)
*''Gözün Aydın'' (2012)
*''Kolay mı Sandın?'' (2017)
*''Bu Dünyada Yalnız Kaldım'' (2021)
References
External links
Engin Nursani's Songtext
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Turkish male singers
German artists
Turkish artists
Turkish folk musicians
German people of Turkish descent
1984 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from throat cancer in Turkey
21st-century Turkish folk musicians