The summer of 1999 was Tarkan's summer. With his hit Simarik he conquered the Western world at breakneck speed. Where singers like Ricky Martin and Juanes successfully combine Latin with pop music, Tarkan does so with Turkish music. The mega hit was milked to the last drop by releasing all kinds of translations. An English-language album would not be long in coming, was the idea, but that turned
… out to be a mistake. Come Closer is the first English-language CD that Tarkan releases. It has become a pop / r & b CD with Turkish influences and not the other way around. That Tarkan currently lives in New York will certainly have to do with that. In Turkey itself, every step of the singer was put under a magnifying glass, so he preferred the anonymity of a metropolis. He could immediately brush up on his English. (MH)more
