ISTANBUL
Following his profession as a licensed soccer participant, Ragıb Narin is now performing his personal songs as a younger musician and is on the best way to change into a profitable artist in Turkish pop music because of his vocal timbre and distinctive musical type.
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All track in his album “Yok,” which was launched on Sept. 16 by Pasion Turca, have been written by this younger musician, who was born to an Arab mom and Turkish father.
Later, on Sept. 30, Narin and Lebanese singer Rima Yussef made a shock for his or her followers with the Turkish and Arabic model of the track “Yok Yok” on this album by Common Music Mena. Arabic lyrics of the track have been written by Rima Yussef and music manufacturing was realized by Sleiman Damien.
The duo replied to questions on this new duet undertaking.
How did this undertaking, which has change into very talked-about in Türkiye and the Arabic music world, begin?
Narin: In my profession, I at all times had a want to make a duet with a overseas singer. I needed my music to satisfy with extra listeners not solely in my nation but in addition in several elements of the world. By way of musical tastes within the Center East, it is similar with Turkish. After making the track “Yok,” Sinan Ufuk Nergis, the CEO of Pasion Turca, requested me if I needed to understand my dream with this track after which we began to work with Common Music Mena in making a duet with Rima Yussef, some of the cherished and profitable names within the Center East.
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What sort of reactions did you get overseas?
Narin: Collaborating with an expert staff is essential. A staff of 100 folks labored on the duet undertaking from the recording to the discharge of the track and the method afterwards. Music additionally connects international locations and cultures. I feel our mission is to share one thing collectively. It doesn’t matter what nation or language it’s.
How did you determine to shoot the music video on a aircraft? What would you say concerning the synergy that you just create with Yussef?
Narin: We grew to become excellent buddies in a short while and supported one another when making the brand new lyrics and performing the track in two completely different languages. We even labored on the pronunciation of the Turkish elements collectively. She contributed quite a bit to the undertaking together with her optimistic vitality. Rima is a really particular singer who has an excellent voice. Singing together with her was a really particular expertise. Rima got here to Istanbul and two stunning music movies for each the Turkish and Turkish & Arabic model have been shot by director Murad Küçük. I created a development with the movies that I shot in airplanes on TikTok. My movies have been watched greater than 150 million instances in whole to date and we needed to inform this story to folks on the aircraft. I’m grateful to her for collaborating within the Turkish model of the track as an actress as effectively.
What have been the secrets and techniques of being profitable?
Narin: I acquired excellent reactions that motivated me quite a bit. It has been launched in 25 Arabic-speaking international locations from Egypt to Lebanon and reached multiple million folks within the first 5 days on digital music platforms. Now the video has been watched round 5 million instances. A lot of my followers overseas ship their greatest needs and I’m planning to go on a promotional tour that may begin from Lebanon quickly.
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You have got a profitable profession at a really younger age. How did your musical journey start?
Yussef: I began singing and exhibiting this expertise at residence round my household once I was 6 years previous, noting that my dad is a musician as effectively who performs keyboard and accordion, so when he heard me, he acquired actually impressed and determined to enroll me as quickly as potential in a music faculty the place I may enhance this expertise. The music faculty didn’t settle for me at first since I used to be beneath the age restrict till they heard my voice. So fortuitously, I may break the widespread commonplace as being the youngest singer on this faculty and studied music for round eight years. I used to be additionally performing stay on massive phases at a really younger age that gave me extra expertise and confidence within the leisure world and helped me to construct extra connections within the music business.
How did you’re feeling whenever you first heard concerning the undertaking?
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Yussef: The minute I used to be knowledgeable by my label firm Common Music Mena concerning the alternative of being a part of a Turkish / Arabic duet track, I began daydreaming, the thought itself made me so passionate to place all my focus and efforts to make that undertaking come true. Apart of being a giant fan of Turkish TV sequence and songs, this undertaking strongly grabbed my consideration and care to be efficiently achieved because it was a brand new step in my singing profession. Additionally, it was my first time singing with a proficient rising Turkish singer and songwriter Ragıb Narin and making a music video in a rustic I like, Türkiye.
What are the similarities and variations between Turkish and Arabic music?
Yussef: For my part, there isn’t a massive distinction between Turkish and Arabic songs, within the opposite, there are similarities. We are able to clearly acknowledge when listening to Turkish and Arabic music that they’ve comparable style, emotions, and vibes, and this may be confirmed by completely different Arabic songs that have been impressed already from Turkish Music, so by some means Arabic and Turkish folks share the identical tradition.
You wrote the Arabic lyrics of the track, what do the Arabic lyrics inform us?
Yussef: The Arabic lyrics describe a woman who meets somebody, who’s Ragib Narin, and falls in love with him. Then, by likelihood, she meets him once more on the identical aircraft throughout a journey, and finds out that he has the identical emotions, too.
