Mariam Khan_RARE Kurdish Record - Iraqi Kurds - HMV Kurdistan Maqam Duman_Listen
  $   85

 


$ 85 Sold For
Mar 29, 2017 Sold Date
Mar 19, 2017 Start Date
$   69 Start price
4   Number Of Bids
  Australia Country Of Seller
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Up for sale is a rare and unique music record from Iraq, Kurdish language, pressed in England, a 78 speed gramophone record. on "HMV" Label.

Overall condition of the record is Excellent - please see photos.

Please note Shipping to US (from Australia) is not $4, ask for quote thank you.

Mariam Khan (Kurdish Female Singer) bio below...

1. Maqam

2. Domam

N-11003
OMD 299-300




The Kurdish female singer Mariam Khan

Mariam Khan (1904) was from a Christian family, she was “adopted” by a Kurdish family after the persecution and fleeing during the Armenian-Assyrian genocide ordered by the Ottoman Turkish Government in 1915. Mariam Khan raised in Kurdish family and become one of the great singers of the era, singing alongside Kurdish mega singers as Muhamed Arif Jazrawî and other stars of the time.

Mariam Khan is the first Kurdish female singer, her songs preserved one a number of 78rpm records. A supremely beautiful record of the Kurdish singer Mariam Khan accompanied by Takht Ensemble with violin and lute containing her most known song 'Domam' which is an outstanding example to her capability as one of the greatest Kurdish singers has been found. Mariam Khan died in poverty in Baghdad in 1949 but left a priceless valuable Kurdish music treasure behind.


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