Yudum Tatar is a Turkish folk music artist, composer and songwriter who was born in Ardahan in 1978. His mother is from Erzincan and his father is from Ardahan; The family moved to Istanbul when Yudum was only six months old.
He was introduced to baglama very early in his childhood; Before he was six years old, he started playing baglama before learning how to read and write, and his first teacher was his father, Davut Tatar. In 1989, he took the Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music State Conservatory Instrument Training Department exam and passed the department.
In the same period, when he was eleven years old, he came first in a vocal competition held in Gรผlhane and received the "Golden Tulip" award.
She stepped into the music world in 1997 with a duet on Nejat Alp's song "Nerdesin". His first album, "Bir Yudum Sevgi", released a year later in 1998, exceeded 350 thousand sales, enabling him to reach a wide audience. In the following years, works such as โYaban Gรผlรผโ (2000), โYollar Hasta Ben Yorgunumโ (2003), โTรผrlรผ Tรผrlรผโ (2007) and in 2009, โHaber Saldฤฑmโ, โSaumartesiโ, โYetmediโ were also published.
The artist, who has a baglama-based style, has developed a style that bears his signature in both the lyrics and composition stages.
The artist's stage name, "yudum", refers to the amount of liquid drunk at once in Turkish and is derived from the verb "to swallow". The name of his first album, โA Sip of Loveโ, beautifully reflects the metaphorical use of the word in the sense of something small but effective, something that is good for people.
