Sedan Anar, who was born in 1988 in Argฤฑl village in ลanlฤฑurfa's Halfeti district, spent his childhood with the stories told by his grandfather and the hymns sung by his grandmother accompanied by a tambourine. The artist, who started playing baglama since the third grade, enrolled in Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History in 2007, but after continuing until the third grade, he met the santur thanks to an Iranian friend and decided to focus on this instrument.
In Iran, he took santur lessons from Necid Pirmuhammedi and Cavid Musapur, and tambourine lessons from Araล Ruygar, and stepped into the world of Eastern music.
Gaining stage experience by making music on the streets of Ankara between 2007 and 2014, Anar gave concerts in more than twenty countries outside Tรผrkiye; These concerts include performances at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Ukraine and Iran. His brother Selahattin Anar and his wife Damla Gรผrkan Anar frequently partnered in music projects; While Selahattin first learned to play erbane and then hang drum, Damla also learned to play ergane in addition to her academic career. Since 2015, the duo began to take part together both on stage and in album productions.
Sedat Anar, who released the album "Belagat" from Ahenk Music in 2013, won an award in the music category from the Writers Union of Turkey with his work "Ehl-i Beyt Compositions" in 2016 and was appreciated once again by the same organization in 2017. In 2017, he released the album "Separate Language From the Same Gรถnรผlden", which contains hymns in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Kurdish.
The artist, who presents the programs "Sesler รlemi" and "Santur'un Sesi" on the TRT Music channel, has also written many works: "Sokaknรขme / From the Pen of a Street Musician" (2018), "Santurnรขme - The Story of the Santur from Past to Present" (2020), "The Captive of States" (2021) and "Hayatฤฑn" in 2022. He also contributed to the world of literature with his books such as "Outside Humming" and "A Musician's Search".
