Sami Yusuf

British composer & musician. Pioneer of World Music Traditions. Listen ‘Ecstasy’ album now:

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İstanbul, buradayız 💛🇹����

Bu akşam görüşürüz!

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Istanbul, we are here 💛🇹🇷

See you all tonight!

#samiyusuf #fonssophiaecollective #rooted

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İstanbul, buradayız 💛🇹🇷

Bu akşam görüşürüz!

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Istanbul, we are here 💛🇹🇷

See you all tonight!

#samiyusuf #fonssophiaecollective #rooted

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Bir kaynak. Farklı sesler. Farklı yolculuklar.

ROOTED, Sami Yusuf’un besteleri ile Fons Sophiae Collective’in farklı coğrafyalardan, enstrümanlardan ve müzikal dünyalardan gelen seslerini Türkiye’de sahneye taşıyor.

@whenpathsmeet serisiyle daha önce farklı sahnelerde hayat bulan bu müzikal buluşma, şimdi Ankara ve İstanbul’daki dört özel gecede izleyiciyle buluşuyor.

Farklı enstrümanların, icra biçimlerinin ve müzikal birikimlerin bir araya geldiği bu canlı performanslarda, her gece kendi ritmini ve anlarını buluyor.

ROOTED
Sami Yusuf

Konser Takvimi

📍 Ankara
23–24 Eylül
🕘 21.00
📍 ATO Congresium

📍 İstanbul
27–28 Eylül
🕘 21.00
📍 İstanbul Kongre Merkezi (ICC) Harbiye Oditoryumu

🎟️ Biletlerinizi şimdi alın!
https://t.co/JI7lBuNcWh

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A root. Different voices. Different journeys.

ROOTED brings Sami Yusuf’s compositions and the diverse voices of Fons Sophiae Collective — shaped by different geographies, instruments and musical worlds — to the stage in Türkiye.

Having come to life on different stages through the @whenpathsmeet concert series, this musical encounter now arrives in Ankara and Istanbul for four special nights.

Bringing together different instruments, forms of musical expression and artistic traditions, each live performance will find its own rhythm and its own moments.

ROOTED
Sami Yusuf

Concert Schedule

📍 Ankara
23–24 September
🕘 9:00 PM
📍 ATO Congresium

📍 Istanbul
27–28 September
🕘 9:00 PM
📍 Istanbul Congress Center (ICC) – Harbiye Auditorium

🎟️ Get Your Tickets Now!
https://t.co/JI7lBuNcWh

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‘Ecstasy’ in Dolby Atmos — available now 🎧

This album was conceived for exactly this: sound that surrounds, breathes, and moves. After many months of work, it is finally ready to be heard the way it was always meant to be. Don’t just listen. Be inside it 💛

🔗 https://t.co/90APho6nGR

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Yirmi yılın ardından Hasbi Rabbi, insanları hiç beklemediğim biçimlerde etkilemeye devam ediyor.

Belki de sırrı şu: bu parça hiçbir zaman yalnızca bana ait olmadı — herhangi bir besteden çok daha eski ve derin bir geleneğe aittir. Gerçekten köklü olan şey yaşlanmaz.

Bu parçayı konserlerimde çalmaktan hiç usanmıyorum — ve bu Eylül’de Türkiye’de seslendirmek için sabırsızlanıyorum 💛

📍 Ankara — 23–24 Eylül, 21:00 — ATO Congresium

📍 İstanbul — 27–28 Eylül, 21:00 — İstanbul Kongre Merkezi (ICC), Harbiye Auditorium

🎟️ https://t.co/JI7lBuNcWh

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Twenty years on, and Hasbi Rabbi continues to move people in ways I could never have anticipated.

Its secret, perhaps, is that it was never mine alone — it belongs to a tradition far older and deeper than any single composition. What is truly rooted does not age.

It is one of those pieces I never tire of performing — and I cannot wait to bring it to Türkiye this September💛

📍 Ankara — 23 & 24 September, 9:00 PM — ATO Congresium

📍 Istanbul — 27 & 28 September, 9:00 PM — Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Harbiye Auditorium

🎟️ https://t.co/JI7lBuNcWh

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Sami Yusuf - Eterna (Between Sea and Sky) https://t.co/QShANcqxzT via @YouTube

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Delighted to share the video release of ‘Eterna (Between Two Seas)’ — filmed live at Yenikapı, Istanbul, before 25,000 souls, with over eighty musicians as well as members of the Fons Sophia Collective.

This performance holds a special place for me. We brought many of the pieces from ‘Ecstasy’ to a live audience for the very first time — a full year before the album’s release. ‘Eterna’ was one of those pieces. And as always, the live version carries something the studio cannot fully contain: a rawness, a presence, a life entirely its own.

The words belong to two poets separated by centuries yet moved by the same fire — San Juan de la Cruz and Yunus Emre. That these voices found each other on a stage in Istanbul felt, to me, quietly inevitable.

And a particular word of gratitude to Isra Moro, for his beautiful vocals.

Watch now https://t.co/xdDhReNjBD

With love,
SY

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Thank you all for the kind wishes and prayers 🫶🌹

With love,
SY

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For the first time, I’ll perform at the ancient theatre of Carthage — 1 August, as part of the festival’s 60th edition. Joined by the Fons Sophiae Collective: master musicians from China, Spain, Türkiye, Azerbaijan, the UK, France, Morocco & beyond.

Tunisia, I can’t wait. 💛 🎟️ https://t.co/vmnV8GpqNa

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Thank you brother @SamiYusuf

Your music has inspired my spiritual journey for years. 🙏

[İnsan Yayınları @insanyayinlari]

Sesin Ötesinde, Sami Yusuf’un sanatçı kimliğini entelektüel ve manevi yönleriyle birleştirdiği; sanatla maneviyatın, kültürle kimliğin iç içe geçtiği, derinliği olan bir eser. Sadece müzikle ilgilenenler için değil; insanın varoluşuna dair soruları olan herkes için düşündürücü ve tatmin edici bir kitap.

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Roger Waters & Mona Miari – Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined (Official Music... https://t.co/1kzexu7Nhb via @YouTube

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Sami Yusuf - Palace of the Shirvanshahs (Between Two Seas) https://t.co/kXhxRgxWwz via @YouTube

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This piece was born in Baku — premiered at Timeless Presence, in partnership with UNESCO — and carried something of that city’s ancient soul into every performance since. Istanbul, 2025, marked only its second time performed live. Before 25,000 people, sold out, in one of the most musically alive cities in the world.

Rooted in Shur mugham and reaching across the classical traditions of a shared civilisational heritage, it is among the most technically demanding works we perform. On this night, it was brought to life by musicians of rare sensitivity and skill:

Yakup Selim Şenel — Tanbur

Elvin Novruzov — Kamancha

Mehmet Ömer Aşçıoğlu — Classical Kemenche

Yunus Emre — Ney

Magsad Azizov — Balaban & Mijwiz

Zaki Valiyev — Tar

Together with the rest of the Fons Sophiae Collective, they gave everything.

To the audience that night — and to the Turkish audience more broadly — I want to say something I mean with complete sincerity: you are among the most discerning, most musically sophisticated audiences in the world. To be heard by you, truly heard, is an honour I do not take lightly.

September. Together again 💛🙏
SY

Listen/Watch: https://t.co/7wizpgYnNp

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A rare guide who inspires and elucidates, anchoring every insight in truth by ‘following the money’ with forensic precision. @simondixontwitt https://t.co/IqdWtfo22W

[Sami Yusuf @SamiYusuf]

A rare guide who inspires and elucidates, anchoring every insight in truth by ‘following the money’ with forensic precision. @simondixontwitt https://t.co/IqdWtfo22W

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Sami Yusuf - Amada (Between Two Seas) https://t.co/vAsetiMR4i via @YouTube

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Sami Yusuf clôt le Festival de Fès dans le tournoiement hypnotique des derviches | Maroc Hebdo | Maroc Hebdo https://t.co/y90f6ILdqz

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Sami Yusuf Turned Fez Into a Spiritual Journey… And Thousands Witnessed Something Truly Unique - La Nouvelle Tribune https://t.co/JsS4ba2JdS

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100 million souls moved by a single truth - carried first in the Azerbaijani Turkish tongue, born from the genius of Islamic civilisation. Belonging ultimately to all of humanity. Nasimi was never just a poet. He was a mirror.

Listen/Watch: https://t.co/KEYNlLCMKM