Neşat Ertaş

With the records he made starting from the 1950s, he recorded the folk songs and bozlaks he learned from his father, Muharrem Ertaş, as well as Central Anatolian folk songs and dance styles. Since the 1960s, he performed and sang the poems he wrote himself. He used the pseudonym "Garip". Since the 1970s, his folk songs have been interpreted by many artists of the period. In 2009, it was deemed worthy of inclusion in UNESCO's Living Human Treasure inventory.