İbrahim Tatlıses turned Turkish folk and Arabesk into a 50-year empire - 42 albums, dozens of films, a television show that became a national fixture. The voice that made "Ayağında Kundura" a standard also built hotels and filled screens.
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İbrahim Tatlı was born in 1952, of Arab-Kurdish descent, in a country where folk music still moved through regional dialects and back-road cassette stalls. By the 1970s he had become Tatlıses and claimed Arabesk - the pop-folk hybrid - as his lane, recording albums like "Ayağında Kundura" and "Selam Olsun" that made him one of Turkey's best-known singers. He moved into film as a leading actor, appearing in several dozen pictures, and later hosted İbo Show, a television programme that became a fixture. The singing career funded business ventures; the screen work fed the legend. He recorded 42 albums in all, and the name stuck across decades.
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