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Adarê

Agirê Jiyan’s song of March: the modern soundtrack of Newroz season.

Type
Modern classic
Year
1990s
Associated with
Agirê Jiyan

Adarê (In March) by Agirê Jiyan is one of the defining modern Kurdish songs: a melody so widely sung that many assume it is folk material, though it belongs to the 1990s koma generation. Its subject is the month itself: Adar, the month of Newroz, of fire and of renewal, and every year in March the song returns to playlists, gatherings and squares as reliably as the season. As a modern protected work its full text is not reproduced here; this page documents its context and its place in the Newroz repertoire.

Lyrics and translations for this song are being prepared. We publish texts only after editorial verification and a copyright check: traditional and public-domain works in full, modern protected works as context and meaning only.

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