"The Middle East’s Sinatra
Ibrahim Tatlises—prolific singer, entrepreneur, and target of an apparent mob hit—touched the hearts of an entire generation.
Across a swath of the Levant from Greece to Iraq, women wanted him and men wanted to be him. With a voice like Sinatra and the looks of Saddam Hussein, Turkish crooner Ibrahim Tatlises—or Ibo to his fans—was considered the greatest singer of his generation. Tatlises’s jet-black mustache, his warbling tenor, and the many, many soft-focus videos of him striding along beaches with women in floaty dresses have been a ubiquitous backdrop of Middle Eastern life for decades."
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