Qadir Dîlan

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:29:54 GMT

Qadir Dilan was born in 1928 in Sulaymaniyah. Qadir Dilan was born into a well-known family in Sulaymaniyah. He is the son of Mullah Ahmad of Dilan. Qadir Dilan's singing talent emerged at an early age. In 1948, he founded a band that became the basis for another more famous band, named the Mawlawi Band in 1952. Between 1953 and 1954, he was admitted to the College of Economics in Baghdad. He visited the Kurdish section of Baghdad station for the first time and later became the supervisor of the band. Qadir Dilan's songs Frishta and Jwani Benaw are the most famous songs of his, and their texts are by the Kurdish poet Abdullah Goran. Qadir Dilan was a violinist and also played other musical instruments. Qadir Dilan was one of the active members of the Mawlawi music group in Sulaymaniyah.

In 1962, he went abroad and studied music in Prague, the capital of former Czechoslovakia, for four years, where he remained until his death.

The famous Kurdish artist Qadir Dilan is one of the pioneers of Kurdish music and song. He is one of the artists who played a major role in the establishment and the development of contemporary Kurdish music. He is also considered one of the active founders and members of the Mawlawi music Band; he is the first Kurdish musician to perform Kurdish folk melodies in an orchestral framework.

He died of cancer on 18-03-1999 in Prague at the age of 70.

On 20-11-2007, his body was brought back to Kurdistan and buried in Sulaymaniyah.