Ceylani Karaduman, who voluntarily participated in erasing the traces of the earthquake disaster on February 6, centered in Kahramanmaraş, set out from Konya to Hatay. A touching event he witnessed while taking part in search and rescue operations affected him deeply and he decided to put these feelings into song.
40-year-old living in Tashkent district of Konya Ceylani Karaduman, He makes his living by raising small cattle and growing flowers in the greenhouse. However, his hobby of writing poetry and songs, which has settled in a corner of his life, has turned into an emotional adventure.
Karaduman, who has an emotional soul kneaded with poems and songs, immortalizes his memories by shooting amateur clips. However, recently there has been a buzz on social media “There Was an Evil Eye” His name has reached wider audiences with his song. After Ceylani Karaduman uploaded her song “Nazar Oldu” to YouTube, it received more than 1.5 million views within a month.
The Real Story Behind the Song
The real story behind the song has deeply affected everyone who heard it. Ceylani Karaduman conveys a tragedy she witnessed with her own eyes to the audience by weaving it into the song “Nazar Oldu”. This touching work, which attracted great attention on social media, leaves the audience with deep emotions and makes the hearts feel the pain of the Hatay earthquake.
Karaduman states that he applied to the District Governorship and was assigned to Hatay in order not to be insensitive to the earthquake. An incident he experienced while working in the wreckage assigned to him inspired the birth of the song.
Karaduman, who saw an engagement ring on a woman’s finger under the rubble while participating in search and rescue efforts, stated that he was under the influence of this moment and said, “When I asked her relatives there, I learned that she was engaged and her wedding was going to happen in a few months.” Then we reached his lifeless body. I turned on the voice recorder on my phone and hummed the words that make up this song. “When I returned from there, I completed the song.” He shared his feelings as follows.
Karaduman had an emotional moment when he saw the engagement ring on a finger in the rubble. This painful memory turned into a murmur that formed the first words of the song. According to his narrative, after finding the lifeless body of a young engaged woman, the lyrics he recorded on his phone to express the pain he felt formed the basis of the song. She states that at those moments, she had difficulty expressing her emotions in order to cope with the pain of the people around her.
The lyrics of the song were completed when Karaduman returned home after a while after this tragic event. Ceylani Karaduman, who decided to write a song despite the emotional burden she experienced during this process, offers an emotional depth with this meaningful work, which was received and shared with great interest by her audience.
Among the lyrics of the song, it stands out with the following sentences: “There was a strange lover, there was a wedding day, that love was left to the afterlife, we wrote it on the mountains, of no use, we wrote it on the roads, it was of no use, that love remained under the concrete, our love became an evil eye.”
