Neset Ertas

Neset Ertas (Turkish spelling: Neşet Ertaş) is a Turkish folk music singer, lyrics writer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as "halk şairi", which literally means &qu

Neset Ertas (Turkish spelling: Neşet Ertaş) is a Turkish folk music singer, lyrics writer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as "halk şairi", which literally means "folks poet".

He was born in 1938, in Gırtıllar, a village in Kırşehir to his father Muharrem Ertaş, also a halk şairi, and his mother Döne.