Esin Engin

Esin Engin (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor.

Biography

He was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1945 to a family of Crimean Tatar origin. He graduated from North Collins High School in New York, US in 1963. Then he returned to Turkey and completed a journalist degree in Istanbul in 1968.

Discography

• Modern Oyun Havaları (1973)
• Anadolu (1973)
• Dünden Bugüne (1974)
• Modern Oyun Havaları 2 (1975)
• Oyun Havaları, Vol. 1 (1989)
• Oyun Havaları, Vol. 2 (1995)
• Çiftetelli – Oyun Havaları, Vol. 3
• Oyun Havaları, Vol. 4 (1996)
• Film Müzikleri, Vol. 1 (1995)
• Film Müzikleri, Vol. 2 (2000, posthumous album)
• Film Müzikleri, Vol. 3 (2000, posthumous album)
• Modern Fasıl (1978)
• Nostaljik Fasıl (1992)
• Tangolar (1974, reissued in 1996)
• Son Tango (1998, posthumous album)
• Best of Belly Dance from Turkey
• Nostalgic Russian Tzigane (1990)
• Gypsy Fire (1990)
• Best of Russia

Filmography

Film score composer

• Kanlı Nigar (1981)
• Adile Teyze (1983)
• Çalıkuşu (1986)
• Yeniden Doğmak (1987)
• Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen (1987)
• Tek Başına Bir Kadın (1988)
• Sürgün (aka "The Banishment") (1992)
• Tatlı Betüş (1993)

Actor

• Seven Ne Yapmaz (1970)
• Dert Bende (1973)

See also

• Music of Turkey
• Turkish pop music

Notes

References

• Sinematürk – Biography of Esin Engin
• EMI Music Turkey – Brief biography of Esin Engin
• Amazon.com – Selected discography of Esin Engin. Accessed February 17, 2009.

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