"Crossing Generations and Borders: A Turkish Pop Diva’s Musical Tour
By JON PARELES
Published: December 20, 2009
In Turkey the singer Ajda Pekkan is nicknamed Süperstar. Ms. Pekkan, now 63, got her start as a singing actress in the early 1960s, and she has had pop hits in Turkey ever since, selling millions of records through the decades. On Friday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom she gave a rare concert on this side of the Atlantic, and she had a multigenerational audience singing along, dancing, bringing her roses and waving the Turkish flag."
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