Background
He was born in 1913 in the village of Yağmurlubüyükoba in Ankara Vilayet (present-day Kırşehir Province) as one of five children to Kara Ahmet the Zurna player and his wife Ayşest
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Muharrem Ertas
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He taught Muharrem mostly the poems of the folk poet Aşık Sait (1835–1910) in addition to the anonym melodies of the region. Muharrem married again. From then on, he had a very hard life to earn money for a family with eight children.
Muharrem Ertaş had a wide repertoire of the traditional folk music specific to Central Anatolia.
In addition to Bozlak, he played and sang examples of the halay genre and vocalized the phrases of folk poets and ashiks Karacaoğlan, Sheikh Galip, Pir Sultan Abdal and Dadaloğlu. He sang sometimes also türküs of religious themes.
From the 1970s on, Muharrem Ertaş became better known as the "father of Neşet Ertaş", who reached fame. Neşet was epoch-making in the genre of Turkish folk music
He died silently on December 3, 1983 at the age of 71 in a poor housing in the slum neighborhood Bağbaşı of Kırşehir.
His whole life can be expressed in two words: He "played and sang". The city of Kırşehir erected a statue of him in 1990 in the city center.
Membership
He was one of the most important members of the Bozlak genre. lieutenant is told that his ancestors, members of a cameleer tribe, immigrated from Khorasan to settle in Kırşehir"s countryside.
