{{short description|Turkish actor and musician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Esin Engin | image = Esin Engin.jpg | caption = | landscape = yes | birth_date = {{birth date|1945|5|17}} | birth_place = Sivas, Turkey | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|5|4|1945|5|17}} | death_place = Istanbul, Turkey | instrument = String instruments, vocals | genre = Turkish pop, folk, tango | occupation = Composer, score composer, arranger, musician | years_active = 1968–1996 | label = EMI Turkey | associated_acts = | website = <!--NONE--> }} '''Esin Engin''' (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor.
==Biography== He was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1945 to a family of Crimean Tatar origin.<ref>{{cite book | last=Allworth | first=Edward | year=1998 | title=The Tatars of Crimea | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srR_4d3mjTAC&q=esin+engin&pg=PA328 | publisher=Duke University Press | isbn=978-0-8223-1994-8 | pages=329 }}</ref> He graduated from North Collins High School in New York, US in 1963. Then he returned to Turkey and completed a journalist degree in Istanbul in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |title=Esin'le Son Tango |date=May 5, 1997 |publisher=Milliyet Newspaper Online |url=http://www.milliyet.com.tr/1997/05/05/t/yasam/esin.html |access-date=2009-02-17 |language=Turkish }}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Modern Oyun Havaları'' (1973) * ''Anadolu'' (1973) * ''Dünden Bugüne'' (1974) * ''Modern Oyun Havaları 2'' (1975) * ''Oyun Havaları, Vol. 1'' (1989) * ''Oyun Havaları, Vol. 2'' (1995) * ''Çiftetelli – Oyun Havaları, Vol. 3'' * ''Oyun Havaları, Vol. 4'' (1996) * ''Film Müzikleri, Vol. 1'' (1995) * ''Film Müzikleri, Vol. 2'' (2000, posthumous album) * ''Film Müzikleri, Vol. 3'' (2000, posthumous album) * ''Modern Fasıl'' (1978) * ''Nostaljik Fasıl'' (1992) * ''Tangolar'' (1974, reissued in 1996) * ''Son Tango'' (1998, posthumous album) * ''Best of Belly Dance from Turkey'' * ''Nostalgic Russian Tzigane'' (1990) * ''Gypsy Fire'' (1990) * ''Best of Russia''
==Filmography==
===Film score composer=== * ''Kanlı Nigar'' (1981) * ''Adile Teyze'' (1983) * ''Çalıkuşu'' (1986) * ''Yeniden Doğmak'' (1987) * ''Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen'' (1987) * ''Tek Başına Bir Kadın'' (1988) * ''Sürgün'' (aka "The Banishment") (1992) * ''Tatlı Betüş'' (1993)
===Actor=== * ''Seven Ne Yapmaz'' (1970) * ''Dert Bende'' (1973)
==See also== * Music of Turkey * Turkish pop music
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * Sinematürk – [https://web.archive.org/web/20060604045453/http://www.sinematurk.com/kisi.php?3200 ''Biography of Esin Engin''] {{in lang|tr}} * EMI Music Turkey – [https://archive.today/20071219051914/http://www.emikent.com.tr/sanatci/335/Esin-Engin ''Brief biography of Esin Engin''] {{in lang|tr}} * Amazon.com – [https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=esin+engin ''Selected discography of Esin Engin'']. Accessed February 17, 2009.
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0257396}}
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