Birth Name: | Servet Kocakaya |
Birth Date: | 19 May 1973 |
Birth Place: | Solhan, Bingöl Province, Turkey[1] |
Origin: | Kurdish |
Genre: | Contemporary folk music |
Years Active: | 1999– |
Label: | Prestij Müzik & Gam Müzik |
Servet Kocakaya (born 19 May 1973) is a Zaza–Kurdish singer-songwriter. He sings mostly in Turkish but also has songs in Kurmancî and Zazakî
Servet Kocakaya was born in 1973 in the town of Solhan in the Bingöl Province. His mother was from Solhan while his father was from Diyarbakir. The family moved shortly to Antakya, Mersin and Cukurova. Later on he studied at the Hacettepe University in Ankara. In Ankara, he began his music career and Kocakaya released his first album, Keke in 1999.