Neşet Ertaş
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Neşet Ertaş (born 1938) is a Turkish folk music singer, lyrics writer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as halk şairi, which literally means "folks poet".
He was born in 1938, in Kırtıllar, a village in Kırşehir to his father Muharrem Ertaş, also a halk şairi, and his mother Döne.
Neşet Ertaş interprets musical pieces of the Abdal tradition, following his father.
