Greek-Turkish Tsifteteli /Chifteteli by Chryssanthi

[lol2600]

the singer's name is CANDAN ERCETIN

[rangvi]

Who sings this song ? I like her voice ! I konw the title is : Sala Sala !

[rangvi]

Fantastic dance Chryssanti, you really have a lot of class. Love from France !

[chryssanthi]

@rangvi Thank you so much :-) Merci beaucoup.



[NurShazadi]

Mashallah!....Beautiful dance performed flawlessly. It is very inspiring to see a dancer that is my size, people think that belly dancers have to be stick thin and that is not true or was it ever true in the Middle East where Belly Dance originated. Like you I am a Belly Dancer and I love this expressive art form and would not give it for anything, thank you for sharing your videos. btw: where can I get this song? who sings it ?

God bless you, hungs, Nurshazadi :-)

[Greexicana]

nice!

[Askimoula]

Beautiful dance! I love the way you drift across the floor. People don't appreciate how difficult it is to move so smoothly when you're trying to move your hips. Kai s'anotera!

[raqqasah]

Very inspiring dance Chryssanthi! And mesmerizing song. I see that it is called Sala-sala. Can u please tell me the singer's name. I will be waiting to know. :)

[saltadoros08]

zaxari i sahar

[amezamcr003]

Really nice!! you're a great dancer, could you please send me the song? thanx!

[sibelnenufar17]

THANKS FOR YOU R RESPONSE CRISSH , I LIKE THIS SONG VERY MUCH!!! REGARDS!!!...SORRY FOR MY QUESTION I WAS JUST ANWERING FOR YOU ONLY, HEHEH !! GOOD PERFORMENCE!!...AND REGARDS!! :D

[chryssanthi]

@sibelnenufar17 De nada la mia amiga mexicana :-) (ablo solo un poccito Espagnol). I'm happy, that my video makes you happy :-) If you want to learn belly dance, I'm sure there are some teachers in your area in Mexico. By the way, I've been to Mexico some years ago. I visited Cancun and Tzitzen Itza. Besitos.

[Mr111989]

@chryssanthi You are a master of the art of Tsifteteli/Chifteteli. Your costume looks gorgeous and you are also really good at playing zills. 

[sibelnenufar17]

is she greek?

[chryssanthi]

@sibelnenufar17 Do you mean the dancer or the singer? The dancer (me, Chryssanthi Sahar) is Greek. The singer of the song is Turkish. Her name is Candan Ercetin (or something like this). The name of the song is Sala Sala.

[sibelnenufar17]

@chryssanthi hehe thanks :D im mexican and i don't know almost any singer of the place do you live, i tried to find this song but know i know the name of the singer. You dance good! if you know that i had tried to dance a lot of belly and i hadn't do it like arabic people hehe , nice too meet you and regards! :D see you !!

[sibelnenufar17]

@chryssanthi thanks chryssanthy!! you re a good dancer!!!..:) regards from mexico!!...i like the song is a lot of mistic :) i dance it every day hehehe...because i like this kind of music , but not like you in this video :) nice to meet you!!! and thanks again for the information! :)

[sibelnenufar17]

@chryssanthi SO MUCHOS TENKIUS!!! THANKS CRISHANTY!!!...AND REGARDS....IM MEXICAN SO I DON'T KNOE ANY SINGER OF YOUR COUNTRY BUT NOW YOU FULL MY BRAIN OF THAT ARABIC THINGS, I LIKE SO MUCH THAT SONG AND RELIGIOUSLY EVERY DAY I OPEN THIS VIDEO FOR DANCE LIKE YOU BECAUSE IS MY DRAM BEEN A BELLY DANCER, SALA SALA LIVE!!!

:D

[sibelnenufar17]

what version is this and of waht singer????

[natashaadir]

very nice bravoooooooo

[ilaneleh]

Sala sala mes sti sala Ta milisame Na me paris na se paro Simfonisame Na me paris na se paro Simfonisame Sala sala mes sti sala Ta milisame Pare me paradulaki Mes ston kafene Na su pleno ta potiria Ke ton argile Na su pleno ta potiria Ke ton argile Pare me paradulaki Mes ston kafene Pote mavra pote aspra Pote kokkina Tin kardia mu an zituses Tha stin edina Tin kardia mu an zituses Tha stin edina Pote mavra pote aspra Pote kokkina

[rangvi]

Fantastic chryssanthi !! Thanks !!

[Shonny0570]

this song is damn good

[dereyurt66]

candan erçetin

[FOTINIist]

poly wraia kinisi......kai wraia h allagh tou xorou th stigmh pou ''paizeis'' tis klaketes.....entiposiako pragmatika bravo!!

[83olgaki]

geia sou re xrisanthi, pas ta me oles tis anoreksikes mas exoun priksei, 2 kila parapano exoume kai giname komplexikes me tous skeletous pou proothoun, oraio to tsifteteli sou mareseis poli

[Pixiemel2]

pepeeee mia soultana...

[chryssanthi]

Fysika ;-) Kai afti einai i diafora mou me ta chanoumakia *lol*

[Pixiemel2]

etsiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! :D kai na sou po ksereis, exo akousei oti protimoune genika oi antres stin ourkia tis soultanes san gynaikes giati leei einai pio gonimes k oi gematoi gofoi kanoun agoria isxyei ontos? ksereis?

[chryssanthi]

Ochi, den ksero. Ego pantos koritsi ekana ;-) Kai ochi aplos koritsi, KORITSARO! Alla file mou, prin ginoun ta kokkala tis modas, oloi oi andres tis soultanes protimousan. Aplos me ti systimatiki plysi eggefalou ton televtaion dekaetion, allaksan ta gousta. Alla emena...skasila mou *lol*

[DeusXLMII]

Giati toso kynismos???

Mia xara kormaki strifog...

[chryssanthi]

Kynismos? Ba, asteiakia kanoume gia na ksechname ton psefti dounia ;-)

[DeusXLMII]

...lygisto!!!

[DeusXLMII]

Mata Xari mou esy,ti kormaki strifogyristo einai auto!!!

[chryssanthi]

Kormaki strifogyristo? Echo akousei polla, alla afto proti fora to akouo. File mou, echeis fantasia ;-)

[DeusXLMII]

Prepei na s´arese Mata Xaraki mou!!!

Na sou pw akoma ena??

[chryssanthi]

Pes akoma ena, alla an einai malakia tha to sviso.

[shabadaows]

Great one ! Does anybody know what is the instrument we hear at the beginning ?

[chryssanthi]

It is a clarinette.

[firstsmoothest]

Bir dalda iki kiraz biri al biri beyaz

Eğer beni seversen mektubunu sıkça yaz

Sallasana sallasana mendilini

Akşam oldu göndersene sevdiğimi

Bir dalda iki ceviz aramız derya deniz

Sen orada ben burada ne bet kaldı ne beniz

Sallasana sallasana mendilini

Akşam oldu göndersene sevdiğimi

[TheTurkishgirll]

çüş yavrum sen kimsin ..

kım çıkarmış onu oraya =)

[GreekBiaaatch]

sala sala mes'ti zala ta milisame, na me pareis na se parw symfwnisame! lol ti wraia kai apla pou e3hgiontousan tote.. symfwnousane se kati kai teleiwne ekei h ypo8esh! lol chrysan8h to forema sou einai yperoxo kai esy panemorfh opws panta ! :) xx

[chryssanthi]

S'evharisto poly :-) by the way, dikio echeis, palia itan pio aploi oi anthropoi, tora ola einai periploka ;-)

[zayadnay]

so did the arabs steal this beat from the turks or the opposite?

[chryssanthi]

It is difficult to tell, who "stole" what from whom. There have been many peoples in the Middle East since ancient times: Persians, Babylonians, Jews, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Kurdes, etc. (sorry, if I forgott somebody) and there have been influences on every side. We have today so many common songs in Greek, Turkish, Arabian and other languages and for many of them nobody really knows where they originally came from. There exists a common Eastern Medditeranean music and dance culture.

[zayadnay]

ya that's true... i wish people would wise up and open their eyes to the similarities they have rather than focusing on their differences

[noigir]

@zayadnay

We do have many similarities with Gagavuz Turks and with Chuvash Turks. In fact many Greeks (the best of us) ARE pure Gagavuz or Chuvash Turks, and many Gagavuz and Chuvash Turks are of Greek origin. We also are related to the mongol tribe of Nayan Khan, the nephew of Gengis Khan. But we have nothing in common with Oghuz Turks (Ottomans) except very superficially. They simply impose their presence in the neighborhood, but not for long, because even the sand under their feet hates them.

[chryssanthi]

@noigir It's the first time I'm hearing such a theory. Uncommon, but interessting. Where have you got those informations from? Is there a book or any other kind of source you can name?

[noigir]

@chryssanthi

Because of the lack of space here ( 500 characters ), I replied directly to your mailbox. You can find my answer to you there.

[chryssanthi]

@noigir Thank you very much.

[progonolatreia]

grecoromans stay in middle east from 330 b.c untill the 7 century...

that makes 1000 years of grecoroman administration...

after took over the arabs

[yediat]

Well the name "çiftetelli" is Turkish.

çift: double, pair

tel: string

tel + li = stringed.

It derives from how it is played on baglama.

I'd like to know if Arabs & Greeks have an alternate origin for the word.

[chryssanthi]

Of course the word "Tsifteteli" is of Turkish origin and derives from "Cifteteli" my friend :-) Nobody said the opposite. I mention this on my article about the Greek Tsifteteli, where I also explain why the Greeks use this name. You can find my article on the English version of my webpage (you can see the webpage link on my video)

[yediat]

Well I think you misunderstood me; I wasn't trying to be aggressive. I'd like to learn if Greeks/Arabs have another etymological origin for the word or if it is only a loan word in those languages. Etymological origin may help us understand where/how it originated. I was replying to the post that asked who borrowed from whom. Well anyway never mind.

[chryssanthi]

Sorry if I expressed myself wrong, but I didn't want to accuse you of being aggressive. I just wanted to say, that the only origin of the Greek word "Tsifteteli", that I know, is from the Turkish word "Cifteteli". But I don't know why the Arabs call the 8/4 rhythm Taksim also "Chiftetelli". Maybe because this rthythm is very much used in the Turkish music? (with the difference that the Turkish 8/4 is quick, the Arabia very slow).

[Shonny0570]

iii loooveee this musiccc..... i rememberr this music... i listened every dayy....

hersey guzelde o manda yavrusu oraya kim cikardi =D

[TurkeylovesGreece]

ohh ohhaaa aman hadi oynat göbekleri ohh ohh.

5***** stars. Thank you for uploading!!

[delfinolya]

salla salla:-)

[ThuGish1982]

Masallah!

[agapulla]

yalla chrysanthi all the best

habiba

[GreekBiaaatch]

ax poso m'aresei ayto to tragoudi !! love this song! i wish they made MORE greek-turkish music :( it sounds amasing 2gether! btw.. geia sou re xrysanthi me ta oraia sou! se vlepw kai mou erxete n'anevw sto trapezi n'arxisw na xoreuvw! lol

[aydeniz06]

ohhh ohhh bu ne yaaa yandan yandan , bingil bingil massallahhhh

[buraktigin]

I HAD TO INTERVIENE..DNA testing shows that greeks and turks are MORE related than the Turks from Central Asia. The Turks from central asian conquest imposed there cultural values, religion and linguistics upon the local populous. MEANING, We(Turks) are a majority mixture of Balkan, Eastern European, and Greek Whom have taken on a TURKISH identity. WE(Turks)are more related to eastern europe/balkan states/greece than even our CLOSEST turkic tribes by DNA.Facts speak, if ur an idiot dont speak

[entict]

Does it matter

[NIKOLAKION]

Of course! Some time in history, brothers chose each one a rock to live upon, a name, a religion and an identity, and then they started hating each other! Instead of making it easy for all and living together they started atrocities on each side, and as time passes, we fail to achieve progress.

[NIKOLAKION]

I think its funny that 3.000 years ago, Homer told a story about a war, between Acheans and Trojans without taking sides, although he belonged to one! He just spoke of honour and the terror of war. Today we are so civilized that we cannot stay unbiased!!!

I am glad to find others that share the same knowledge and logic to see the obvious!

[NIKOLAKION]

I am glad to find others that share the same knowledge and logic to see the obvious!

[pentogram23]

your correct....Turic peoples have a close .looks of Tibetan eyes...If you look at Bulent ersoys eyes you will see a resemblance of that...many "modern' Turks have green - blue eyes and , yes blond hair.............amazing , ......

[zayadnay]

this is interesting... i was always naturally interested in the reasons why people look a certain way in every country... it seems like you have some knowledge about that subject.. do you know of any websites that have this kind of information?

[yobrowassupp]

no no, in Middle Asia (mongolia) Ancient Turks used to have blonde hair and colored eyes too (of course not all of them) And now the people you see similar like Tibetans are Tatar Turks an Crimean Turks and they are common in middle of Anatolia.

I wish all wars are made like that.

Send your belly dancer troops with wine & raki! (not fat ones)

BTW

singer: Candar Ercetin

song: Bir Dalda iki Kiraz / Sallasana Sallasana

[WizzyDarkness]

btw i'm Crimean Turk and i'm blond and i have green eyes :P

[goseeifiamcoming]

one of the best of this kind !!!!

[turkishbabe19]

sala salaaaaaaaaaaa =)

[outragedlyrics]

one word .. wow .. ur an amazing dancer!

[NavajoSkinwalker]

πωπωπωπωπωωπωπωπ παναγια μου....

5* καλες γιορτες και καλή χρονια

[chryssanthi]

S'evcharisto file mou :-) Sou evchomai kali chronia kai ola kala ;-)

[umutkurtuba]

masallah

[PrincessofDarkness79]

omg...Im trying to learn belly dancing, but i cant o anything as good as her!lol

[HanifeKB]

Great Dance and dancer ... Beautifuly done...

[xaniban]

beautiful :)

[marcoduret]

Genial, beautiful and very estetic... The music is also fantastic ... Who sing this song "sala sala" ?

[pinargol]

candan ercetin

[FockerTheLopper]

A turkish cypriot but this is a traditional song

[yobrowassupp]

Not Cypriot

She is Candan ERcetin, a Turkish Macedonian probably from Skopje.

[Famagusta23456789876]

lovely! eirini - baris !

[TatteredAngelx3]

This is pretty awesome. :)

You're brave. I was always nervous to perform, you look pretty confident.

[Varda87]

mashallah chryssanthi m :) ise tromeri :) keep it up x

[gideross]

περιορίζει την κατάργηση της λαϊκής

[chryssanthi]

Συγγνώμη, τι θέλεις να πείς? Δε βγάζω νόημα.

[gideross]

sorry,

I tried to write greek, is probably not succeeded.

I wanted to say no border between Greece and turkey.:)

[chryssanthi]

The Greek commentary was not possible to understand, but no problem :-) You are right, we are brothers and sisters and we have many common things in our cultures ;-)

[gideross]

are you the bely dancer?

[chryssanthi]

Yes!

[mixalis9292]

lol i agree with gideross. but your comment means "it limits the suppression of the public" :P

[chryssanthi]

Haha, right *lol* But it rather means "it limits the abolition of the public (or of the folcloric)", therefore I was wondering what gideross wanted to tell. But since he wrote that he doesn't really speak Greek, I can imagine, that he got this sentence through an automatic translator. Automatic translators are a catastrophy, folks never use them!

[mixalis9292]

especially with greek xD

to hip-hop mou to eixe vgalei san "λυκίσκος ισχίων" xD eleos

[chryssanthi]

Λυκίσκος ισχίων? Ε, δεν πάμε καλά. Απ'το μύδι στο κρεμμύδι δηλαδή. Συννενόηση μπουζούκι. Προσπαθούν να γλυτώσουν λεφτά, για να μήν προσλαμβάνουν μεταφραστές και ιδού τα αποτελέσματα *lol*

[NMSailormoon]

Poli oreao tragoudi!!! Poli kala horevi!

[kozani07]

BEAUTIFUL....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[Buzra03]

It sounds like Candan Ercetin, or is it someone else? :)

[chryssanthi]

You are right, it is Candan Ercetin:-) I love her Greek-Turkish song interpretations. She did a great job on that CD with Chifteteli songs which exist both in Greece and Turkey.

[Ferahnak]

Süperrrrrrrr

[Barbiequeen89]

What does Sala-Sala mean?

I understand the rest.

[chryssanthi]

"Sala" means in Greek "hall" or big room. In Turkish it means something like "move move", if I remember right (a Turkish friend told me so).

[Barbiequeen89]

Thank you so much.

[rayhanalhassan]

No, sala has NO meaning in Turkish. SALLA with 2 ls means move your hips.

[chryssanthi]

Thank you very much Rayhanalhassan :-) I didn't know "salla" was written with two "l". My Turkish is very poor.

[OlgaAth]

great performance...I really enjoyed watching it! very genuine indeed!!!

[kassssienka]

she is great ! good arms moove

[Pirnalik1985]

bravo cok güzel tam osmanli kadini gibi oynuyor 10+ puan helal helal yedin beni evladim

[ALEXANDRASAM19]

its not nesesery to be think to dance belly dance

you have to be sexy woman

and you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[glykiasandra]

I disagree with you. You can be plumped and be a very SEXY and BEAUTIFUL woman. (Don't pay attention to what fashion magazines say, ask men about that!!)Moreover, I think it is better to be plumped to be a belly dancer because you really can show your femininity. Chrissanthi is just beautifully shaped, natural, talented and sweet, simply PERFECT!

[chryssanthi]

Have I missed a part of a debate :-)?

[LiaVerra]

chryssanthi you are great!!!!!:-))

kisses from thessaloniki!!

[antiope11]

bravo chrissanthi temeteron better and better all the time!!

[RajaniRea]

You are beautiful!

[samerarocksdou]

I think you are wonderful !!! can you teach me loool I live in denmark Im glad that you like your body it shows us that we all dont have to be skinny to look good !!!! Thanks for posting....

[MedterraneanaGitana]

Chryssanthi, I love your attitude and energy. I just wish I could belly dance as well as you. Keep on doing what you do, because you do it great! I hate watching skiiny bellydancers who look more like strippers..the whole cultural aspect gets lost

[chryssanthi]

Thank you Gitana :-) I'm practicing my own revolution against the main stream *lol* And believe me, there are many women (and men) out there, who find it relieving and refreshing ;-) So I'll just keep going on!

[MedterraneanaGitana]

Chryssanthi, Just one more thing I have to say to you, and that is I fully agree that this skeleton look is induced by the media. And commercialism. How much money is wasted on weight loss products and how many can achieve the emaciated waif look? WHO WOULD WANT TO?? Poor girls.

[MedterraneanaGitana]

Is her weight acceptable everywhere but in the usa where women starve to look like skeletons? I am Greek, and cannot look like a skeleton unless I am dead! REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES!

[chryssanthi]

Unfortunately the problem with the weight is not only in the USA. Anorexia is a global epidemy, created by the media and their controllers in order to keep women week. Because a thin body has no strength and it can be better manipulated and opressed. As you said, real women have curves! And real women have strength (in every sense)!

[budgiebudgielover]

In certain ways weight loss can be good. Like if you are on the brink of getting diabetes or something. (My mum is :'(. So she has been trying for a while.) But, it's mostly used by the media so women can by the stuff that they are advertising - which may not really work. It's just mind control.

[chryssanthi]

You are right budgie, but overweight is dangerous for the health only if it is really too much, like people who have antipositas. In my case it would start getting dangerous, if I would have 20 kilos more than what I have now. Slight overweight is contrary to heavy overw. healthy. The latest medical researches proved that slightly overweighted poeple are healthier, stronger, happier and live longer than underweighted and even normal weighted people.

[budgiebudgielover]

Oh yeah, I didn't tell you how much I liked the dance! lol, I forgot to I got so much into what I was saying! I love the costume, suits you very well! :D the coreography fits the music very well, and the zills, sound like they were recorded with it (like they fit sooo well in!) :D

[chryssanthi]

Thank you budgie :-)

[budgiebudgielover]

your welcome!

[chryssanthi]

By the way, this is not a choreography, it is an improvisation :-) I never dance choreographies, I always improvise, so you will never see me dance exactly the same thing twice. Surely if I dance a song many times, some parts tend to be similar, but never the whole song.

[budgiebudgielover]

Even though I don't have my videos up. I never do a coreography either. I try to, but I don't want to have to remember all this stuff. The music just tells me what to do. I'm trying to learn to play zills and dnce at the same time! It's hard it's like rubbing your stomach and patting your head at the same time!

Ever heard the song 'Polifoniko'? I don't speek greek. So, I don't know what they are saying! XD But, I listen anyways!

[MedterraneanaGitana]

You are a beautiful and very talented dancer. I showed my two daughters your videos, and i really think it help raise their self esteem. I long ago have come to terms being full figured, and as you well know, we full figured women have no shortage of strengnth and no shortage of male admirers. It is hard on young women and girls these days. Where do you dance? You are surely beautiful. Are you Greek?

[chryssanthi]

Dear Gitana. I agree that young girls have a hard time today. I was fortunate to be born and grow up in Greece in a time when Greek men adored curvy women, so I have different ideals in my head. As a teenager I was quite thin and there were quite some men telling me that I am too thin,while my mom who was curvy got very admired by the men (and women). Today the media force another ideal in our heads, but I don't give a shit about it. I like my curves and I'm not the only one ;-)

[chryssanthi]

By the way, yes, I am Greek :-). But i live in Germany.

[maleknikos]

geia sou xrusanthi me ta oraia sou ..asterii..

[Yadilove]

Wunderschönes Video Chryssanthi. Das Lied geht direkt unter die Haut.

[SonicBlunt]

teleio! pios tragoudaei auti tin version?!

[chryssanthi]

Mia tourkala tragoudistria pou tin lene Candan Ercetin. Tragoudaei kai alla Ellinotourkika tragoudia (to Ninanai yavroum p.x.)

[SonicBlunt]

proto thx gia to response! pes mou ligo erxesei kai gia party se oloi tin germania?!

[chryssanthi]

Vasika nai, alla oso poio makria apo to spiti mou einai (meno stin Heidelberg) toso poio akriva einai kai prepei na ksero oso to dynaton noritera tin imerominia. An endiaferesai gia Auftritt grapse mou kalytera email, i pare me tilefono (einai kai ta dyo stin istoselida mou).Boreis na mou grapseis kai edo p.m.(private message)

[danay555]

great as always!

[MariaAya]

Dwse kai swse !!!

Bravo Xryssanthi !!!