Background
He was born near Qamishlo in Syria.
He was born near Qamishlo in Syria.
He studied music at the University of Bochum for three years. To date he has released 14 albums and a live VCD and Digital Video Disc of his famous Batman concert of 2003, which was attended by more than 200,000 people.
After finishing high school, he left for Germany in order to continue his studies. He is now residing in Sweden. Ciwan Haco is one of the very first Kurdish singers to combine Kurdish folk music with western style popular music, rock, blues and jazz.
Ciwan Haco is known for his lyrics that are often purposely simple and to which the main recurrent theme is love, with variations around this same theme.
The main song from his last album, Li hêviya te (Waiting for you) features vocals in both Kurmanci and French language (the latter being sung by a female vocalist). Similar to other famous Kurdish musicians like Şivan Perwer, Haco sometimes uses poems by famous Kurdish poets such as Cegerxwîn or Qedrîcan in his songs.
He has also recorded one of the novels of Mehmed Uzun named Destana Egîdekî. Very popular in the Kurdish diaspora as with the Kurdish people in the Middle East, Ciwan Haco has given concerts in many parts of Europe.
Ciwan"s parents, Sihadet and Ibrahim had twelve children: F=Female, M=Male Ajamê (died at the age of six) F Dillberê (has written a lot of Ciwan"s famous songs) F Nayîf (Was a part of the Kurdish military organization PKK and lost his life for the cause of the Kurdish people and their rights) M Nûredîn (Lives in Norway) M Ismahan (Still lives in Syria) F Ciwan (Lives in Sweden) Xafshê (Lives in Sweden) F Zînê (Lives in Sweden) F Perwin (Currently in Norway) F Ciwan"s father, Ibrahim, had another wife before Sihadet, and together they had two children: Bahîya (Lives in Sweden) F Gulhat (Lives in Germany) F Sihadet and Ibrahim moved to Sweden in 2004.
Ciwan lives in Gävle, Sweden.