#demirkan

[1zmarit]

"Ben hiçbir şeyi kazanamadım, Mislina."

"Seni kaybettim."

"Sen başıma gelmiş en güzel şeydin."

Tekrar ettim. "Seni kaybettim, Akif Selim."

[yakamozdakiislakkedil]

"Kalp de yorulur bazen fakat içinde ki güzelse dinlenmek de lütuftur."

Mürekkebe Boyanan Sardunya

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2003 - Number 4 - Sertab Erener - "Everyway That I Can"

This is the highest a Eurovision winner has been in my lists for a while. If there's one thing Eurovision has missed for the past four or five years, it's winner that was a hit. Sertab Erener and Türkiye provided that in 2003. Everyway That I Can came out of nowhere on the night to spring a surprise (and last minute) win, then went on to be a hit all around Europe throughout the summer.

Sertab herself was already a star in Türkiye, having had several number 1 singles and five albums, several of which were also big hits. TRT had decided to go with an internal selection in 2003 having had several years of mid-table results. While never really being in danger of relegation, TRT wanted better. Picking Sertab was an opportunity too big to miss. They went with a song written by herself and her long-time song-writing partner Demir Demirkan (former guitarist with Anatolian thrash metal band Mezarkabul).

Türkiye was a country that had stuck by its native language entirely, even when the language rule had been removed, they stayed true to Turkish. It was announced that the song would be entirely in English, there were complaints. But TRT stuck to their guns. Everyway That I Can is a dramatic, contemporary pop song with a Turkish rhythm and instrumental grace notes incorporated into something thoroughly modern.

It's stuffed full of drama, both in terms of the lyrical need for a desperate no-holds barred seduction, and in terms of the progression of the song from verse to chorus to the semi-rapped Spice Girly bridge while her dancers treat Sertab as a pink-wrapped maypole. There are plenty of opportunities for belly-dancing and hipsway. It's astonishing how well packaged the entire song is. It is everything you could wish for in a Eurovision winner.

The scoring sequence with Türkiye creeping up the board and pulling a win out of the bag in the final two votes was astonishing, and looked like it came as miraculous shock to the Turkish delegation. Their joy at winning is evident during one of the most happily celebratory reprises the Eurovision stage has seen. Türikye had finally got their first win and Sertab would forever be remembered not just in Türkiye but across Europe.

It wasn't the first time she'd tried to enter Eurovision. She'd finished third at Şarkı Yarışması 1989 and sixth in 1990. After that, her career took her to other places, but 2003 came along just at the perfect moment for her. Since then she's cemented her position in the Turkish musical world, releasing album after album and at least forty singles in total. She sings pop, traditional Turkish music, jazz and has found inspiration in the voice of Barbara Streisand.

Here she is singing Olsun with the İzmir Big Band in 2018.

[dizyarasi]

“Burası veda caddesi, burada her veda bir merhabayla başlar.”

Sümeyye Demirkan / Veda Caddesi

[inspirednarcissus]

Semih Metin Demirkan by Elif Demiralp.

[simsiyahbirgeces]

''"Akif Selim..."diye mırıldandım.

"Hım?"

"Özgürlük sensin."

"Hayır," diye itiraz etti sakince ve gözlerini açtı, gözlerimi açtığım anda."Özgürlük, senin yanın.""

Mürekkebe Boyanan Sardunya/Sümeyye Demirkan

[renklikeder]

Gökyüzünde bir yıldız vardı,

Tüm geceler onunla aydınlanırdı,

Ay bile onu kıskanırdı,

Çok sevmek ve sevilmekten,

Güzelliğinden,

Sonra o yıldız düştü,

Ay geceye küstü,

Parlamamak için gökyüzüne sırtını döndü.

Yıldızımız öldü.

Gökyüzü artık ölüler mezarlığıydı,

Göğe bakmak için gözlerimize değil,

Kalbimizdeki cenazelere düşecek yağmura muhtaçtı.

Yağmur yağmadı,

Mezarlık kapısı açık kaldı.

Gökyüzü birilerini daha bekliyor şimdi,

Kalan yıldızlar ise acıdan ağladı.

[ruhukitaplarda]

O benim zihnimin gürültüsünde açmış naif bir şarkıydı.

[butterfly-fairy2]

Bazı yaralar kabuk bağlamazdı çünkü bazı insanlar yara vermezdi,yaranın adı olurdu.

-Sümeyye demirkan-

Veda caddesi FECR

[yeryuzununyildizlari]

İnsan insana iyi gelmeliydi çünkü yaralar paylaşmayı bildiğimiz zaman iyi ederdi

~Sümeyye Demirkan~