Speaking about her father, the late artist Kayahan, Beste Açar explained that her father was very disciplined and contrary to popular belief, she did not have a childhood where she could do anything she wanted whenever she wanted. “I had a list of things to do every day like a curriculum.” The singer continued her words and talked about how her father also included her in the process of composing. “He would say, “Let’s see you play this on the keyboard.” or turn the guitar upside down and say, “Let’s see you keep this rhythm.”
“My father didn’t want me to be a model and a photomodel.”
1995 Miss 3rd in Turkey, registered beauty Beste Açar said, “I secretly appeared in a few fashion shows at Neşe Erberk’s agency without my father’s knowledge. I had experienced photomodeling with Neşe. My father did not want me to be in that community. In fact, I’ll never forget, one day he called Neşe Abla to his house and said, “I want you to take all the photos taken for catalogs at the agency. He took them from Neşe Abla.”
On March 15, she met her fans with her single ‘Two Lonely People’.
Working with Yazgın Kaçak, singer Beste Açar said, “We have a great team. They are very young. I am the oldest among them, but I feel younger than them.” She also gave the good news that they have started preparations for a new song that they plan to release on April 26 or the first week of May.
He will go on a tour with the support of the Ministry of Culture!
Answering the question “What’s on your musical agenda for 2024?”, the artist said that they are in talks with many production companies and that special concerts will be predominant this summer, and announced the good news to his fans that he is preparing for a tour with the Ministry of Culture to visit all provinces. “We talked to a few very special venues. On certain days of the week, with a very small orchestra, maybe with a project under the name of ‘acoustic compositions’, we will also be on the stages.” He announced that all these projects will start after the feast, around May and will continue until the end of the summer.
She revealed new details about Kayahan’s early life movie.
“I think it will be a co-production of two or three production companies.” Beste Açar said, “We would like to start shooting in June and bring it to February 2025, even to March 29, my father’s birthday.”
“The words that come out of my mouth and that I use the most are ‘pity’ and ‘I can’t do it’”
“My friends make fun of me,” the artist said with a laugh, “I think I am very helpful. Actually, I can say that I am a little bit giving. I need an adjustment there.”
”The song ‘Rain’ was a song my father wrote for our cat.”
Beste Açar explained that she and her father dried the kitten they found wet in the rain with a blow dryer until the morning and at the end of the night they never slept, the kitten they took to the vet in the morning died there, “We cried a lot with my father. It was so tiny, it was the size of the palm of our hands. When we brought it home, we said we wanted to name it Rain. After we lost him, the song ‘Yağmur’, which he composed with his guitar, was the song of our cat.”
Musicians as a Family!
Beste Açar, daughter of the famous musician and composer Kayahan and a composer and singer like herself, stated that both of her sons are interested in music. “My older son is about to finish the conservatory. He is studying Music Technologies and he plays every guitar. He has very beautiful compositions and his voice is very beautiful. My younger son also loves playing the guitar. His voice is also very good and his ear is very good.”
“My goal is to make music as long as I feel excited and to quit when I no longer feel excited.”
Singer Beste Açar said, “I have no ambitions.” and added, “Maybe my father has a project on the agenda right now, where different interpreters interpret my father’s songs in different forms, and we can make duets with them.
“When I look at today’s songs, I say, ‘It’s better if they don’t sing at all’.”
Speaking about today’s music, Beste Açar said, “There are serious deformations in some lyrics. Lyrics are very precious and very important. I remember from my father, if a tiny word didn’t pass the inspection, that song couldn’t be published. When I”My father was a very disciplined and authoritarian father” Beste Açar, Eylül Aşkın Interview look at today’s songs, especially the lyrics, I think it would be better if they didn’t sing at all. There are too many people who make music for money.”
“Everyone thinks that they write about their own experiences, but it’s not like that.”
Stating that she is mostly influenced by the people around her while writing lyrics and composing, Beste Açar said, “I love to observe the people around me, draw a story out of them and then combine it with music.”
The artist, who is also interested in Access, Theta Healing and Reiki, also talked about her spiritual experience, what these experiences have brought her and her training.