Kurdshop - Kurdish singer Nasrin Omar Sherwan, also known as Nasrin Sherwan, was born in 1929 in a village in the Shirnakh province of the northern part of Kurdistan to a nomadic family.
Nasrin, a Kurdish artist and singer, traveled with her family to many cities and regions of the northern part of Kurdistan due to financial problems. In 1932, she moved to the southern part of Kurdistan and stayed in Darhozan, Qadiaw, and Zakho. After a while, her family moved to Baghdad capital of Iraq, but Nasrin stayed in Zakho for a while, and then she moved to Baghdad, too.
At that time, Nasrin Sherwan worked for a wealthy man named Gharib Powaz, whom she had known before. At the time, she met intellectuals such as Ali Mardan and Hassan Jaziri, and on March 25, 1944, at the suggestion of Ali Mardan, she started working at Radio Baghdad. After that process, she sings the songs she learned when she was young. She also recited the poems of some poets such as Jigarkhwen and Sheikh Salam and collaborated with many artists of that time such as Mohammad Arif Jaziri, Isa Barwari, Hassan Zirak, Tahir Towfiq, Rasoul Gardi, Shamal Saib, Kawais Agha, and joint works ... sings two-person duets with them.
Nasrin Sherwan, in addition to folk songs, has several of her own songs, which have been recorded on gramophone disks. The Kurdish woman singer got sick in 1975 and, like many artists of the time, was left deprived and lonely. Nasrin Omar Sherwan, after getting ill, spends her last years on the streets of Baghdad, with her medicine.
Nasrin Sherwan, the Kurdish singer, passed away on October 10, 1990, in the streets of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Kurdish singer Nasrin Sherwan left behind only a few clothes and a bag of her medicine.