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 The
musician, poet, and teacher was born in 1957 in Nicosia where he
had his primary and secondary education there and after
completing the Nicosia Turkish Lycee he moved to Istanbul where
he studied Turkish Literature at the Istanbul University. He
served as a teacher for 11 years at the following places:
"Atatürk Kiz Meslek Lisesi", "Sedat Simavi
Endystri ve Meslek Lisesi", "Lefke Gazi Lisesi",
"Lefkosa Turk Lisesi", and "Türk Maarif Koleji".
In 1992 he reteired from "Türk Maarif Koleji" and
helped found a private teaching complex named "Bilgi
Dershanesi". Since than he has been an administrator and a
teacher of litrature for this place.
Taşçı who also has an interest in music started
his first group called "Gölgeler" in 1973. The group
members were himself, Metin and Mehmet Ileri, Birol and
Senol. The latter two members now live in London. In 1974 Taşçı
joined the group called "Özgürler". Some of the
other members were Salih Niyazi, Rifat Örfi, Serdar Timur, and
Sitki Ibrahim. In 1975 the group had a new drummer, Cavit Zabit
and changed its name to "Kalenders". In 1975 Tasci
also helped forming a group called "Letül".
During his higher education years Yiltan Tasci played and sang
in the following groups:
- Yoldaşlar:
(Yiltan Tasci, Mustafa Akar, Reşat Akar, Sarper
Göktürk).
- Enginler:
(Yiltan Taşçı, Özgün Özünalp, Gazanfer and
Atilla)
- Kıbrıs
Beşlisi (Yiltan Tasci, Serdar Denktaş, Salih
Niyazi, Serdar Timur )
- Station
(Yiltan Taşçı, Erhan Özbeşer, Mehmet Taşçı,
Taner and Serdar Denktas)
- Kıbrıs
Folk Üçlüsü (Yiltan Taşçı, Serdar Denktaş,
and Bülent Berkay who now lives in London).
In 1982, he
formed a new group called "Oksijenler" along with his
brother Mehmet Taşçı and two other friends Hasan Akar
and Mustafa Akar. Since 1986 he has been singing solo. Tasci's
first casette "Bana Seviyorum De", came out in March
1995 and it contains 7 songs which were composed by
himself.
Apart from his
musical gift, Tasci also published, in 1974, a collection of
poems called "Haykirisimiz". Later on in 1983 he
published a second book pf poems called "Cig Damlalari".
Tasci also researches on writes on litrature review in major
newspapers. His published research works include: a book on the
characteristics of the Cypriot-Turkish dialect, titled "Kibris
Ağzi Dil Özellikleri"(1986) (in Turkish); book which
he co-authored on the History of the Turkish-Cypriot Literature,
"Baslangictan Bugune Kibris Turk Edebiyati"(1990). His
latest work is on the Antology of Turkish-Cypriot Poetry (1995),
in Turkish.
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