Composer (B. 1904, Drama – D. 7th
July 1962, Istanbul). She was the sister of the composer Muhlis Sabahattin
Ezgi. She studied in Notre Dame de Sion Fransız Kız High School. The artist,
who started to take her first musical education in early ages from his father
and his brother Muhlis Sabahattin, became a master in guitar and piano, and she
gave concerts and made compositions. She started to make compositions at the
age of twelve. She was also able to play the guitar, piano and drums. She also
learned to play piano and she played in the Istanbul Radio for a while. She
played the musical pieces of his brother Muhlis Sabahattin Ezgi, who was a
composer of operetta, and she sang some of his musical pieces to gramophone
records.
She composed light and melodic songs
with the influence of western music. Most of them are still enjoyable to
listen. She generally produced pieces in the forms of tango, waltz, operetta
and songs. Her musical pieces started to be published after the death of his
brother. She was widely criticized because of her style that was different from
the traditional pattern and genre. She was characterized as the “queen of the
tango songs” back in the days.
She was married to Mehmet Ali Üsküdarlı when she
was sixteen years old. She became a widow during the second year of their
marriage upon the death of her husband. She deceased at her home in 7th
July 1962 because of cardiac insufficiency. It is guessed that she composed
more than 500 musical pieces according to some sources and more than 1000
musical pieces according to others. However, since her last will was to have
all her works burnt, it was only possible to reach to the notes of almost one
hundred of them.
The best-loved and known compositions of the
artist, who had a unique style, were the following: “Sevmek seni bir suç ise” (rast), “Hayal ufkumda uçan
binbir renkler” (rast), “Bir emele bin ah çeksem”
(segâh), “Kuş olup uçsam sevgilimin diyarına” (segâh), “Gül dalında öten
bülbülün olsam” (hicazkâr), “Sevdikçe seni ömrüm artar ey yâr”
(nihavent), “Yıllardır bekliyorum bir gün gelirsin diye” (nihavent), “Canandan uzak kaldı
gönül” (kürdilihicazkâr), “Bahar pembe beyaz olur”
(mahur), “Sevda seline kapıldı gönül”
(mahur).