Pervin Chakar

Pervin Chakar (Kurdish: Pervîn Çakar, born June 19, 1981) is a Kurdish-Turkish opera singer. Having been trained as a singer in Turkey and Italy, she currently resides in Germany.

Early life and education Chakar was born into a Kurdish family from Mardin, Turkey, in 1981 and attended the fine arts high school in Amed (Diyarbakır), where she also took cello lessons. During her studies at the Anatolian High School, she took up writing and with one of her stories she participated in a competition in Ankara. becoming a singing teacher. She decided to follow up on her studies in Italy in 2004 from where she graduated with a master's degree.

Professional career During her eleven-year stay in Italy she performed for the first time at the in Milan in 2006. Later she sang as Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Megacles in the L'Olympiade by Josef Mysliveček. Since 2016 she lives in Baden-Baden, Germany.

On singing in the Kurdish language She has only in 2011 decided to learn the Kurdish language, after having been confronted with news on the Roboski massacre in which several Kurdish villagers were killed and mistaken for militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). From then on, she learned songs from Kurdish singers and became a strong supporter of performing in the Kurdish language also having composed a melody to the Kurdish poem Qimil by Musa Anter. was cancelled because there were Kurdish songs in her repertoire. A former lawmaker of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Abdurrahman Kurt attempted to weigh with the University's rector, but was not able to change their mind. Students that went to a Spring festival organized by the same university posted videos of artists singing in Kurdish, contradicting her claim.