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He talks about his life
and projects
This interview appeared
on TV, in Al Ritmo de las Estrellas (Canal
5). They didn´t say when or where it was made, but I think it
was made when Tarkan visited Mexico in March. Tarkan is sitting
in what seems to be an hotel lobby, wearing a blue long-sleeved
t-shirt. He looks as good and nice as he's always been. Let's see
what he said:
-It´s very surprising
for me, I mean, I keep saying that, because, it´s in turkish,
the album, the song, people are loving it. I´ve been here for
just a few days and I´m really flattered by their attention and
by latin american attention to me. It just makes me feel that I
should work harder, record better songs and gain their attention
more and more.
-What
differences and similarities you find between Turkey and
latinamerican countries?
-You know, there are a lot of similarities between your people
and my people. They are very friendly, very nice, very honest,
the way they show their love. That makes them actually close to
my country. But in other ways my country is different, the way
you eat, the kind of music you listen to.
-Do you like
latin music? Which latin artists do you know?
-I do, I do, there are certain artists I listen to, for example,
I like Enrique (Iglesias), I like Ricky's music too. I like
Santana, he's kind of my idol, and I know he´s from Mexico. The
song named "Smooth", that song just drives me crazy. I
like that.
-Tell us
about the beginning of your career and how you gained
international recognition.
-My career started back in Turkey in 1992, so I've been in
showbiz for about 8 years. But the past 2 years have been very
special to me, because I had the opportunity to sing to the
world. And I don't know, if I would have the answers to these
questions, I guess that would be bad. I think the magic is that
we don't know what's going on. It's just the kiss song, it has
catched everybody's hearts, I think the kisses are really
important because the kisses are universal, even when nobody
understand the words, kisses...are just kisses!
-Who had the
idea of including the kisses in "Simarik"?
-It was the songwriter's idea...a nice, great singer in Turkey, a
lady who loves the song, she wrote it (he refers to Sezen Aksu).
-Tell us
about your next album.
-It's going to be like a new page in my whole career life. It's
going to be totally new, a fresh sound, combining occidental
influences with oriental sounds. I think that with better
recordings, nice videos and good musicians, it's going to be a
great production. But if you ask about its style, it's going to
be sexy, erotic, and groovy and oriental, that's for sure.
-What do you
like and dislike of being famous?
-First of all, I think I was born to be known and get the
attention. So I don't want to talk about the things I like
because I love this world. This is my world. But there are
certain things which bother me, of course, like sometimes the
pressure of the press and sometimes even the pressure of society.
When I say something, when I do something, when people don't
really like that and when they react to me, specially the press.
I don't like prejudiced people, who are trying to hurt me. That's
the difficult part of it. And also, after a while you got no
freedom anymore as anybody else does, walking in the streets,
shopping, doing simple things. But I've also learned to have my
own freedom behind my walls. Freedom is inside, I guess.
-Why you
decided to move to New York?
-The reason was because of my freedom, actually I wanted to live
a more simple life, far away from my country, from fame and all
the pressures I was talking about. So just have a simpler life,
do simple things and focus on my music more, because if you're
surrounded by fame and glamour, after a while you don't feel
happy anymore, you can't create anymore, because there are so
many things trying to get your attention away. So that's why I
wanted to be alone, for a while, to discover music.
-What would
you like to say to your latin fans?
-I want to thank them, for loving my music. And I want to say to
them: "Stick on me" (he laughs) because this is going
to be great, I'm going to write some very good songs for them. I
hope they're not upset because it's in turkish; I'm going to
write great turkish songs for them for the new album. I send you
my love and gratitude. Love me, keep loving me, and keep sending
me kisses too, just like I do to you (he sends a cute kiss).
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