Awakening Music — since 2004
Arabic, Turkish, English and Albanian
MesutKurtis
مسعود كُرتِس
Nasheed vocalist · Awakening Music
I’ve carried these songs from Skopje to London’s Apollo.
Also on Apple Music and YouTube
- 38Releases
- 6Albums & EP
- 4Languages
- ≈50,000Global Peace & Unity, 2024
Latest release
My newest release.
Ya Qadeer
Mesut Kurtis & Mostafa Atef
A 30-second preview, straight from Apple. Hear the whole thing (3:33)
Live
I’m not on the road right now.
Where these songs have taken me
- Source
2014
For Gaza
Toured in aid of Gaza relief.
- Source
2012
United Kingdom
“Send a Little Hope” — UK tour
“Send a Little Hope” charity tour of the UK, including Hammersmith Apollo.
- Source
2010
London
Apollo Theatre, London
Performed at the Apollo Theatre, London.
Next stamp
Undated
Nothing booked I can announce yet. The mailing list gets it first.
The catalogue
From Salawat to Qasidah Al-Burdah.
Five studio albums, one EP, and a steady run of devotional singles — everything I’ve recorded since 2004.
The records
2023
Qasidah Al Burdah
2021
Azeem Alshan
2019
Balaghal Ula
2014
Tabassam (Smile)
2009
Beloved
2004
Salawat
Recent singles
Everything, 2004–2026
38 releases
2026
- Ya QadeerSingle
- Tashawwaqat RouhiSingle
- HasretSingle
- Rahmat Al-RahmanSingle
2025
- Hoşgeldin RamazanSingle
- Ahlan Ya RamadanSingle
2024
- Medreseja JonëSingle
- Walking In MedinaSingle
- AstaghfirullahSingle
- Özgür Ol Gazze (Be Free Gaza)Single
- Sanadhallu Ya Gaza (We Will Remain O Gaza)Single
2023
- Qasidah Al BurdahAlbum
- Ey Habibim Ey MuhammedSingle
- Ya Habibi Ya MuhammadSingle
- Quranun QuranSingle
2022
2021
- Azeem AlshanEP
- Salli Wa SallimSingle
- Khayru KitabSingle
- Abazzahra (Pbuh)Single
- Azeem AlshanSingle
- Ya RamadanSingle
2020
- Asma Allah AlhusnaSingle
2019
- Balaghal UlaAlbum
- Allah Hu Allah (feat. Raef)Single
- Malana Mawlan SiwallahSingle
- Balaghal UlaSingle
- Muhammada (Pbuh)Single
- Salli Alal Mustafa (Fiyashia)Single
2018
- IlahiSingle
2014
- TebessemAlbum
- Tabassam (Smile)Album
2011
2009
- BelovedAlbum
2004
- SalawatAlbum
Watch
The recording most people know me by.
Al-Burdah (Maula Ya Salli). Rendition of the classical Qasidah Al-Burdah, filmed off the Turkish coast.
Press / EPK
For programmers, promoters and press.
The biography below is written in the third person, ready to copy.
Mesut Kurtis was born in Skopje in 1981 to a Turkish-Macedonian family, and came to the United Kingdom as a young man to study Human Sciences, Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at the European Institute of Human Sciences, University of Wales. He signed to Awakening Music in his early twenties and released his first album, Salawat, in 2004. His rendition of the classical Qasidah Al-Burdah — filmed among the islands off the Turkish coast — became the record most listeners know him by. Across five albums, an EP and a steady stream of devotional singles, he records in Arabic, Turkish, English and Albanian, and has sung for audiences from London’s Apollo to festival crowds of fifty thousand.
- Born
- 31 July 1981, Skopje, North Macedonia
- Heritage
- Turkish-Macedonian
- Education
- Human Sciences, Islamic Law & Jurisprudence — European Institute of Human Sciences, University of Wales
- Label
- Awakening Music
- Recorded in
- Arabic, Turkish, English and Albanian
Press photography
Two photographs are cleared for press use under CC BY-SA — credit is mandatory and pre-filled below. Full-resolution files are on Wikimedia Commons via the link on each.
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