Mircan Kaya

Mircan Kaia, alternate spelling Mircan Kaya, is a Turkish singer/songwriter and engineer.

Early life and education Kaia was born in 1963 in Artvin, a town in the Black Sea Region in north-eastern Turkey. Her grandparents were Mingrelians who converted to Islam and had moved to the region from Batumi in Georgia.

When Kaia was 13, her 26-year-old brother died. He had been an engineer, and she decided to study engineering at university. For her next album, Numinosum, Kaia wrote the lyrics and incorporated poetry by the 13th century scholar Rumi. The album was recorded in Bristol, UK, with the avant-jazz group Limbo.

For her 2008 album OUTIM – Once Upon a Time in Mingrelia she used her own lyrics together with poetry by the Mingrelian poet Xhelimishi Xasani. She set several poems by Gülten Akın to music for her album Elixir, which was released in 2010.

She produced the music for the 2010 drama film White as Snow directed by Selim Güneş. The score includes songs from her albums "Sâlâ, Outim, Numinosum, and Kül, as well as music she composed for the film. She received the Best film music award at the 47th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and at the 44th SİYAD Awards, for her music in White as Snow. In 2014, she scored the music to the short film The Chocolate Wrapper directed by Murat Kebir.

Engineering Kaia is an engineer, working with structural design and earthquake protection technology.

She is a founding member of the Turkish Association of Seismic Isolation, and was President of the association in 2012.

Discography Bizim Ninniler, 2005, Çan Music Kül, 2005, Kalan Music Kül & Ashes, 2006, UCM Productions (re-release of Kül) Sâlâ, 2006, UCM Productions Numinosum, 2007, UCM Productions OUTIM (Once Upon a Time in Mingrelia), 2008, UCM Productions Elixir, 2010, UCM Productions Nanni, 2012, UCM Productions Minor, 2012, UCM Productions Insula, 2018, UCM Productions Kırmızı Gül, 2018, UCM Productions Hush, 2018, UCM Productions Tatlı Dilli / Sweet Talker, 2019, UCM Productions Sevemem Seni Eskisi Gibi, 2020, UCM Productions