The singer of life stories with jazz notes

The Turkish singer, Elif Çağlar, says that with her songs she always tries to unfold personal stories and the stories of others, with the hope that everyone will find a part of themselves in them. It's all about life, about the things she goes through, or what she sees other people going through.

"A million places have shown us, but if we can't dream, then what's the use of knowing", she says in the song "Everyone's Error" from the first album "MUSIC" (2011). The album has ten more songs and laramania is emphasized from the titles. In "Home", the singer remembers the feeling when home is missing, "Should I Trust You" is about the difficulty of believing in love again and "Everybody is an Artist in New York", brings an insight from the American metropolis. The singer lived there for several years. He had initially gone in 2006, to complete his master's studies in jazz at "Queens College" in the "The Aaron Copland School of Music" department, where he learned from the legend of jazz music, vocalist Sheila Jordan.

The singer from Turkey, in an interview for TIME, says that during the pandemic, she mostly writes songs. Also, he practices things that he says he was not given the opportunity to do earlier, due to traveling and concerts.

"I'm focusing on where I want to go next with my music", she says in an online communication, at the beginning of June, exactly three months after she and her group performed in front of the audience in Pristina. It was almost ten days before Kosovo, like the whole world, was isolated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Çağlar, is not unknown to the local public. As a guest of the third edition of "Prishtina Jazz Week" it was her fourth visit to Kosovo. In the concert he was accompanied by Çagri Sertel on piano, Volkan Hursever on double bass and Ediz Hafizoglu on drums.

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"Love is universal, love is fundamental, love is the answer," sings Çağlar on "Universal Love" from her first album. This album also includes the song "Circus Love", whose video clip is actually a short animated film made by the Turkish director Akile Nazli Kaya, produced in 2012. Through her songs, Çağlar talks about the places she dreams of. visit them, and "You Are Safe" describes the feelings when someone falls in love.

"You are the reason why I'm smiling and singing this song", she sings on the song that together with 9 others, including the song "Pieces Of Heaven", complete the mosaic of the second album "Misfit" (2015).