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His life changed when he met movie star Muhterem Nur during a concert tour in 1980. Their initial quarrel turned into a legendary love story that lasted over a quarter-century until his death in 2013. The Meaning of the Song

In 1978, Müslüm was in a horrific car accident. He was pulled from the wreckage and assumed dead, even being taken to the morgue before a doctor noticed he was still breathing. He survived but lived the rest of his life with a metal plate in his skull, impaired hearing, and a loss of smell. Muslum Gurses Ates Donar Su Yanar

The song, released on the 2000 album Biz Babadan Böyle Gördük (This is How We Saw It from Our Father), serves as a poetic summary of the impossible pain Gürses endured. The Man Behind the Legend His life changed when he met movie star

To understand why "fire freezes and water burns" in his world, one must look at the "Baba" (Father) of Arabesque's life: He was pulled from the wreckage and assumed

His personal life was shadowed by extreme violence; his brother was murdered, and his father murdered his mother—a trauma that left him "silent and resentful" for years.