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John Kassir was born on October 24, 1957, in Baltimore, Maryland, [1] to an Iraqi father from Mosul and a Syrian mother from Mardin, present-day Turkey. [3] He is of Assyrian descent.
Assyrian folk/pop music, also known as Assyrian folk-pop, is the musical style of the Assyrian people derived from traditional music that includes a broad range of stylistic varieties, which would also encompass fusions of Western genres such as pop, electronic, Latin, jazz and/or classical music, with a melodic basis of Assyrian folk.
Linda George (Syriac: ܠܢܕܐ ܓ̰ܘܪܓ̰; [a] born 11 February 1964 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Assyrian-American singer known for her sentimental ballads and dance songs. The vast majority of her songs are sung in her native Assyrian Neo-Aramaic dialect, though a few are in English, Turoyo and Arabic.
Evin Agassi [a] (25 September 1945 – 17 September 2024) was an Assyrian-American singer [1] [2] who had a career that spanned for over 50 years. [3] Agassi produced over 40 albums [4] during his career, with a majority of them being released in the 1980s and 1990s.
Born in Chicago to Assyrian parents who had emigrated from Iran's northwest Urmiah region, John Nimrod was for three decades a leading international figure actively working for Assyrian survival in the Middle East, cultural and educational advances in American diaspora, and the cause of minorities from Uighurs to Tibetans and Assyrians who remain officially unrepresented in world political fora.
Ashur Bet Sargis [a] (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪ ܒܝܬ ܣܪܓܝܤ; born July 2, 1949) is an Assyrian singer, composer, guitarist and activist. He became famous in the Assyrian communities worldwide for his nationalistic songs in the 1970s. His career peaked, and became prominent, in the 1990s with five albums released within that decade.
Suroyo TV (Syriac: ܦܪܣ ܚܙܘܐ ܣܘܪܝܐ) is an Assyrian satellite television channel. Suroyo TV broadcasts from their studios in Södertälje, Sweden. [1] Suroyo TV is a voice for the Assyrian people and their cultural heritage, history and language, as such affiliated with the secular, leftist nationalist Dawronoye movement. [2]
Turoyo (Turoyo: ܛܘܪܝܐ), also referred to as Surayt (Turoyo: ܣܘܪܝܬ), or modern Suryoyo (Turoyo: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ), is a Central Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken by Assyrians in the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey and in northern Syria.