Esin Engin

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Esin Engin

| image = Esin Engin.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|5|17}}

| birth_place = Sivas, Turkey

| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|5|4|1945|5|17}}

| death_place = Istanbul, Turkey

| instrument = String instruments, vocals

| genre = Turkish pop, folk, tango

| occupation = Composer, score composer, arranger, musician

| years_active = 1968–1996

| label = EMI Turkey

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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.{{cite book | last=Allworth | first=Edward | year=1998 | title=The Tatars of Crimea | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srR_4d3mjTAC&q=esin+engin&pg=PA328 | publisher=Duke University Press | isbn=978-0-8223-1994-8 | pages=329 }} 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.{{cite web |title=Esin'le Son Tango |date=May 5, 1997 |publisher=Milliyet Newspaper Online |url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/1997/05/05/t/yasam/esin.html |access-date=2009-02-17 |language=Turkish }}

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)

Notes

References

Sinematürk – [https://web.archive.org/web/20060604045453/http://www.sinematurk.com/kisi.php?3200 Biography of Esin Engin] {{in lang|tr}}
EMI Music Turkey – [https://archive.today/20071219051914/http://www.emikent.com.tr/sanatci/335/Esin-Engin Brief biography of Esin Engin] {{in lang|tr}}
Amazon.com – [https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=esin+engin Selected discography of Esin Engin]. Accessed February 17, 2009.