# Esin Engin

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{{short description|Turkish actor and musician}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Esin Engin
| image           = Esin Engin.jpg
| caption         =
| landscape       = yes
| birth_date      = {{birth date|1945|5|17}}
| birth_place     = [Sivas](/source/Sivas), Turkey
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1997|5|4|1945|5|17}}
| death_place     = [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul), Turkey
| instrument      = [String instrument](/source/String_instrument)s, vocals
| genre           = [Turkish pop](/source/Turkish_pop_music), [folk](/source/Turkish_folk_music), [tango](/source/Tango_music)
| occupation      = Composer, score composer, arranger, musician
| years_active    = 1968–1996
| label           = [EMI](/source/EMI) Turkey
| associated_acts =
| website         = <!--NONE-->
}}
'''Esin Engin''' (May 17, 1945 – May 4, 1997) was a [Turkish](/source/Turkish_people) musician, composer, arranger and film actor.

==Biography==
He was born in [Sivas](/source/Sivas), [Turkey](/source/Turkey) in 1945 to a family of [Crimean Tatar](/source/Crimean_Tatars) 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](/source/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](/source/Istanbul) in 1968.<ref>{{cite web |title=Esin'le Son Tango |date=May 5, 1997 |publisher=[Milliyet](/source/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](/source/%C3%87al%C4%B1ku%C5%9Fu)'' (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](/source/Music_of_Turkey)
* [Turkish pop music](/source/Turkish_pop_music)

==Notes==
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==References==
* Sinematürk – [https://web.archive.org/web/20060604045453/http://www.sinematurk.com/kisi.php?3200 ''Biography of Esin Engin''] {{in lang|tr}}
* [EMI](/source/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](/source/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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Category:1945 births
Category:1997 deaths
Category:Turkish male film actors
Category:Turkish composers
Category:Turkish people of Crimean Tatar descent
Category:20th-century Turkish male actors
Category:20th-century Turkish composers
Category:People from Sivas

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