Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu
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Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu (1894-1973), also known as just Aşık Veysel, is a Turkish minstrel who was born in Sivas in 1894, and due to an illness he became blind at the age of 7 due to smallpox outbreak in Sivas. He played the baglama, sang and wrote many well-known Turkish folk songs.
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- (English) Biography (in english)
- (Turkish) [1] Search this page to find his songs