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Timeline
4 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1930s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Merhaba (Arşiv Serisi Volume 2)
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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Biography
English biography50 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370846344
Biography
Nesimi Çimen (1931 – 2 July 1993) was a Turkish folk singer and poet. He was killed, along with 34 others, during the Sivas massacre in Sivas, Turkey when a group of Islamist rioters set fire to the hotel where the victims had gathered for the Pir Sultan Abdal festival.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -1 | 9.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
Merhaba (Arşiv Serisi Volume 2)
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 46:02
1Yürü4:082Diplomalı Cahiller3:573Gençlere Ağıt5:024Yavaş Yavaş5:075Tabip Sen Sorma Derdimi4:196Duvazı İmam4:197Ezen Kalmasın5:448Ne Acayip Haldeyiz3:479Altı Mayıs9:39
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Nesimi Çimen head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | -1 | 9.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27e968c7-bbcd-4a45-a410-198a17be563fdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27e968c7-bbcd-4a45-a410-198a17be563fcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1978206genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1978206seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesimi_%C3%87imenbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesimi_%C3%87imen
Why this artist is in the database
- List of folk musicians
- List of Turkish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q1978206 · MusicBrainz: 27e968c7-bbcd-4a45-a410-198a17be563f
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