Fîdel
Fîdel is a vocalist, composer, trumpet player and filmmaker based in Mardin, Istanbul, and Santa Barbara, came into the world as the 17th son of Kurdish parents, and raised in Mardin, on the Turkish-Syrian border. A OneBeat 2014 alumni, co-leader of OneBeat Istanbul 2016, Fîdel was founder of Jiyan (2018) project, winner of the AEIF award by the US State Department. As a performer of acclaimed folk music band Kardes Turkuler (Ballads of Solidarity), he shared a stage with a diverse range of artists in Turkish, Kurdish, Balkan, Armenian, and Arab folk; Turkish pop; and American folk. An Ethnomusicology PhD student at UCSB, Fîdel studies media circulations in Kurdistan.
This is a song for orphans. For those who have been displaced. For those who were born as noise and who are the salt of the voice. Nomadic stars that burn like the sun, wandering through the world, rejecting the unjust, telling their stories of survival through music. Carrying the torch of solidarity. A conspiracy of beautiful souls.
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