Actor-turned-musician İbrahim Tatlıses infuses traditional Middle Eastern tropes with new passion and drama, painting vivid stories of love, longing, and melancholia from his Kurdish heritage. Tatlıses cornered the market in arabesque, a Turkish-Arabic music mostly sung in minor keys that dominated the Turkish airwaves from the '60s to the '90s. Whether it's slow, sultry numbers or vivid, theatrical crowd-pleasers, Tatlıses' vast back catalogue gives a glimpse into a life of an artist who went from selling tapes in the street to selling out some of Turkey's most celebrated venues.