- Who
- Music teacher, poet, bağlama player
- Period
- 7 May 1950 –
- Basis
- Reported
This page was compiled from sources by mezirme.com.
According to the life story written by Süleyman Özerol, Hüseyin Başaran was born in Ballıkaya on 7 May 1950; he is the eldest son of Âşık Mustafa Başaran (Özerol 2011). A national news agency also states that he was born in Ballıkaya (DHA, 21 Nov 2025).
According to an interview DHA conducted with him in 2025, he graduated from teacher training school in 1969 and began working as a music teacher. Besides Türkiye, he gave concerts in England, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden and Greece. He said that his childhood was spent amid the minstrel tradition of his grandfather and father, and he was preparing to turn his memories of well-known figures into a book (DHA, 21 Nov 2025).
According to Özerol, he taught in Van, Hatay and Istanbul. He began writing poetry in the fourth year of primary school and published a poetry collection titled Sıcak Güneş (1976) (Özerol 2011). Levent Çoban’s academic study shows him as the apprentice of his grandfather Âşık Yusuf Başaran (Çoban 2018, p. 81).
What is missing
- Publisher of Sıcak Güneş; details of his other books and recordings
- A photograph
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Sources for this page
- NewsDemirören Haber Ajansı (DHA) (2025). Emekli müzik öğretmeni, ünlü isimlerle biriktirdiği anılarını kitaplaştırıyor. DHA news agency, via Habertürk local news, 21 November 2025. yerel-haberler.haberturk.com Accessed: 18 October 2026.
- Local studySüleyman Özerol (2011). Dededen Toruna Uzanan Sanat. Arguvan Olgusu, no. 30, November 2011, pp. 24–25; republished on the author's blog on 10 August 2017. mezirmeballikayakoyu.blogspot.com Accessed: 18 October 2026.Life stories of Âşık Yusuf, Mustafa and Hüseyin Başaran; the author interviewed Âşık Yusuf on 10 July 1991. Information not confirmed elsewhere counts as reported.
- Academic publicationLevent Çoban (2018). Hekimhan Müzik Kültürü Üzerine Bir Araştırma. İnönü Üniversitesi Kültür ve Sanat Dergisi, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 77–84. dergipark.org.tr Accessed: 12 October 2026.