Neşet Ertaş
Neşet Ertaş (born 1937) 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 1937, 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.
With his forceful SAZ, his warm voice pure and simple language has neset ertas in a short time large Roem gathered in central anatolie and then throughout the country.