The message welcoming visitors to the official website of legendary folk singer and poet Neşet Ertaş seems even more heartbreaking today. “Dear beloved fans,” reads the message, originally from his Twitter account dating Sept. 18. “Rumors of my passing have been circulating once again. These rumors are making me very upset.”
Sadly, the rumors are now no longer rumors. Fans and lovers of Ertaş’s music woke yesterday morning to the sad news that he had lost his battle with cancer. He had been in the intensive care unit of a hospital in İzmir for the last two weeks. Ertaş was 74.
Ertaş’s inviting voice, accompanied by the strings of his bağlama, had made him a modern-day “aşık,” the traveling bard of Anatolian Alevi tradition of centuries, a historic image personifying Anatolian folk music.
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