Arif Sağ

Arif Sağ (born 1945 in Aşkale, Erzurum, Turkey) is a singer, bağlama virtuoso, and leading figure in modern Turkish folk music, as well as a former MP in the Turkish parliament, and an academic.
He taught more than 40.000 students in his music school ASM (Arif Sağ Music). He is a big influence in Turkish Folk Music.
With the initiation of Roman Herzog, then-president of Germany, he gave a concert on 5 May 1996 with Köln Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Gurbeti ben mi yarattım (1981)
• İnsan olmaya geldim (1983)
• Muhabbet 1-5 (1984 - 1987)
• Halay (1988)
• Duygular dönüştü söze (1989)
• Türküler yalan söylemez (1990)
• Biz insanlar - Kerbela (1990)
• Resital 1 (with Musa Eroğlu) (1991)
• Ben çaldım siz söyleyin (1991)
• Halaylar ve oyun havası (1992)
• Golden Bağlama (1992)
• Direniş (1993)
• Umut (1995)
• Seher Yıldızı (with Belkıs Akkale) (1996)
• Concerto for Bağlama (1998)
• Dost Yarası (2002)
• Davullar Çalınırken (2005)
• Ezo Gelin (2007)

He has two books written in a style of interview:

• "Değirmenin Bendine" (1992)
• "Muhalif Bağlama" (2003)