Sakina Teyna

Contributing Writer

Sakina Teyna is a singer and songwriter of Kurdish music. Born into a Kurdish Alevite family in Muş Province, Turkey, she is now based in Vienna. She is part of the all-female TRIO MARA and has established the Vienna-based ensemble “Sakina & Friends”.

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On the Trails of a Banned Language

The tradition of oral expression known as a dengbêjî, the job of a dengbêj – a ‘soundteller’– lies at the foundation of traditional Kurdish music and is the only path to survival of a language facing extinction.

Sakina Teyna