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• Muazzez Abacı
  Muazzez Abaci
  Muazzez Abacı is a Turkish singer. Trained in Turkish classical music, she has achieved considerable popular success in the Arabesk genre.- External links :*...
  
  
• Cem Adrian
  Cem Adrian
  Cem Adrian is a Turkish singer, song writer, author, producer and director. He is known for his ability to sing from bass to soprano, as his vocal cords are three times the length of an average person's.-Early life and education:...
  
  
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• Demet Akalın
  Demet Akalin
  Demet Akalın is a famous Turkish pop singer, former model and actress.- Professional career :Akalın studied at Gölcük Barbaros Hayrettin Lisesi and initially wanted to become a journalist or a teacher. She won the 'Miss Mayo' beauty competition organized by Yaşar Alptekin...
  
  
• Barış Akarsu
  Baris Akarsu
  Barış Akarsu was a Turkish rock musician and actor who rose to fame after winning the television series Akademi Türkiye in July 2004...
  
  
• :tr:Bedia Akartürk
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• Belkıs Akkale
  Belkis Akkale
  Belkis Akkale is a distinguished Turkish singer of Turkish folk music.She was born in 1956 in Malatya, Turkey.-References:...
  
  
• :tr:Gönül Akkor
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• :tr:Behiye Aksoy
• Sezen Aksu
  Sezen Aksu
  Sezen Aksu is a Turkish pop music singer, song-writer and producer who sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and Minik Serçe ....
  
  
• :tr:Rana Alagöz
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• Mazhar Alanson
  Mazhar Alanson
  Mahmut Mazhar Alanson is a Turkish musician, guitarist, member of the popular Turkish pop music band MFÖ and an actor.- Early life :...
  
  
• Sibel Alaş
  Sibel Alas
  Sibel Alaş is a Turkish pop music singer. She was born in February 13, 1973 in İzmit. She graduated from American Culture and Literature Department in İstanbul University. Her first hit was 'Adam' from her album of the same name in 1995. She was both vocalist and dancer of Yonca Evcimik before...
  
  
• Ayşegül Aldinç
  Aysegül Aldinç
  Ayşegül Aldinç is a Turkish singer and actress. Her father was the well-known journalist and sports commentator Orhan Aldinç....
  
  
• Ayla Algan
  Ayla Algan
  Ayla Algan is a Turkish film/stage actress and singer.-Biography:Ayla Algan was born in Istanbul and spent her childhood in France where she studied at Notre Dame de Sion High School and Versailles Lycee. Then she moved to the USA where she joined the New York Actors Studio as an actress...
  
  
• Alpay (singer)
• :tr:Ayten Alpman
• :tr:İzzet Altınmeşe
• Emre Altuğ
  Emre Altug
  Niyazi Emre Altug is a Turkish pop singer, actor. He starred in popular television series, television films, movies and musicals. He is also one of the most popular male singers in Turkey.-Biography:...
  
  
• :tr:Ertan Anapa
• Emre Aracı
  Emre Araci
  Emre Aracı, Turkish music historian, conductor, composer.- Life :Dr Emre Aracı is a Turkish music historian, composer and conductor who has been living in the United Kingdom since 1987...
  
  
• Funda Arar
  Funda Arar
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• :tr:Deniz Arcak
• Soner Arıca
  Soner Arica
  Soner Arica is a Turkish singer and record producer.-Biography:He was born as the youngest of seven children in the Fatsa district of Ordu Province, Turkey. Later he moved to Istanbul and studied in Şişli College. Having graduated from the college, he continued his education and obtained a degree...
  
  
• :tr:Hüsnü Arkan
• Aslı
  Asli Gökyokus
  Aslı Gökyokuş is a Turkish singer.-Early experience with Music:Aslı, who is also known as Aslı Gökyokuş was born on October 26, 1977 in İstanbul. Her work in music began with the band that she helped form during her years at high school, which was called "Phoenix"...
  
  
• :tr:Atilla Atasoy
• Athena (band)
  Athena (band)
  Athena is a ska punk band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up is composed of Hakan Özoğuz , Gökhan Özoğuz, Umut Arabacı , Emre Ataker and Alican Tezer .- Band history :...
  
  
• :tr:Bora Ayanoğlu
• Aylin Aslım
  Aylin Aslim
  Aylin Aslım is a Turkish singer/songwriter.Aylin was born in Lich, Hessen, Germany into a Turkish family but moved back to Turkey when she was only one year old. She sang in several rock and electronica bands in several clubs in Istanbul. Her first album Gelgit -released in 2000 was more of an...
  
  
• Asya (singer)
  Asya (singer)
  Tülay Keçialan better known as Asya, is a Turkish pop singer and song-writer who appeared as backing vocalist for Nilüfer between 1990 and 1994. Her first album "Asya" released in 1994...
  
  
• Atiye
  Atiye Deniz
  Atiye Deniz is a German-born Turkish-Dutch singer.-Brief Introduction:Atiye Deniz set foot on Turkey so that she could establish herself a musical career. After some help with some well known Turkish composers and lyric writers, Atiye's voice began to be heard in Turkey...
  
  
• Aydilge
  Aydilge
  Aydilge Sarp, daughter from Adil Sarp and Faika Sarp is a Turkish writer, poet and singer-songwriter.-Biography:Aydilge Sarp was born in 1979 in Kütahya, Turkey. Her mother, Faika Özer writes poetry and novels, with a release of more than ten books...
  
  
• Emre Aydın
  Emre Aydin
  Emre Aydın is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. He has been referred to as emreaydın on his official site to establish a trademark. The singer won the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in the "Europe's Favourite Act" category. He is also the former lead singer for the Turkish rock band 6...
  
  
• Safiye Ayla
  Safiye Ayla
  Safiye Ayla was one of the most famous singers of Turkish classical music.She began her musical education as a piano student...
  
  
• :tr:Pınar Aylin

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• Selda Bağcan
  Selda Bağcan
  Selda Bağcan is a Turkish singer and guitarist. She was born in 1948. The Turkish military rulers persecuted her in the 1980s due to her political songs.-External links:* – official website* discography at Discogs...
  
  
• Banu
• :tr:Serpil Barlas
• Bedük
  Bedük
  Serhat Bedük , more commonly known by his stage name Bedük, is a Turkish musician.Bedük had his debut album Nefes Almak Zor released in 2004 by İrem Records. However, his rise to fame was in 2007 with his second album, Even Better released through Audiology Records...
  
  
• :tr:Lale Belkıs
• Nonna Bella
  Nonna Bella
  Nonna Bella is an Armenian Turkish 70's singer. Sister of singer Asu Maralman. In the early seventies, she became famous with her song "Şimdi Sen Varsın Dünyamda".She was famous with her arrangements of foreign songs and Turkish folk songs....
  
  
• Bendeniz
  Bendeniz
  Bendeniz is a Turkish pop musician, well known in Turkey.-Discography:* Bendeniz, 1993* Bendeniz II, 1995* Bendeniz III, 1996* Bendeniz'den, 1998* Kurtulamıyorum, 1999...
  
  
• Bengü
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• Semiha Berksoy
  Semiha Berksoy
  Semiha Berksoy was one of the first Turkish opera singers, the prima donna of the Turkish opera, a painter, and an internationally acclaimed artist....
  
  
• Beş Yıl Önce - On Yıl Sonra
  Bes Yil Önce - On Yil Sonra
  Beş Yıl Önce, On Yıl Sonra was a Turkish band of the 1980s.They represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song Halay and reached 12th position and 37 points....
  
  
• :tr:Bilgen Bengü
• :tr:Beyaz Kelebekler
• Bülent Bezdüz
  Bülent Bezdüz
  Bülent Bezdüz, born in Ankara, Turkey, is a Grammy Award winning Turkish tenor.Bezdüz graduated from Gazi University’s Department of Music and started his vocal studies with Polish tenor Roman Werlinski. He was helped by Hüseyin Akbulut, director-general of the Turkish State Opera and Ballet...
  
  
• :tr:Ali Rıza Binboğa
• Murat Boz
  Murat Boz
  Murat Boz was born on March 7, 1980 in Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, currently resides in Istanbul is a Turkish pop singer.-Early life:"Murat Boz" completed his primary and secondary education in Karadeniz Ereğli, Zonguldak, then in 1995-1996 he attended a fine art oriented high school in İstanbul...
  
  
• Abs Breen
  Abs Breen
  Richard Abidin "Abs" Breen is a British singer, rapper, dancer, and DJ. He was formerly a member of London-based boyband Five. In 2003, he released his first solo album called "Abstract Theory".-Early life:...
  
  
• :tr:Hakkı Bulut
• Nil Burak
  Nil Burak
  Pembe Nihal Munsif , better known as Nil Burak, is a Turkish Cypriot pop singer and actress who is famous in Turkey.-Biography:...
  
  
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• Sibel Can
  Sibel Can
  Sibel Can is a popular Turkish folk pop singer.In recent years she has also become popular in Azerbaijan, Turkey,Sibel Can became a dancer at the age 14 and later started her singing career. She has been known as one of the most successful and powerful singers in Turkey...
  
  
• Koray Candemir
  Koray Candemir
  Koray Candemir , is a Turkish musician, songwriter and record producer. He used to be the lead singer of the Turkish rock band Kargo. Towards the end of 2008, Koray Candemir and Serkan Celikoz, has decided to end their involvement with Kargo, due to vision and opinion differences with the other...
  
  
• :tr:Doğan Canku
• Cartel (rap group)
  Cartel (rap group)
  Cartel is a 1995 Turkish hip hop group that received attention and popularity in both Turkey and Germany. They were famous for pioneering the use of traditional Turkish music instruments in Hip Hop music...
  
  
• Mustafa Ceceli
  Mustafa Ceceli
  Mustafa Ceceli is a Turkish pop singer. His musical career started with an amateur high school band. After high school, he attended to Ankara University Faculty of Veterinary...
  
  
• Hayko Cepkin
  Hayko Cepkin
  Hayko Cepkin is a Turkish musician of Armenian ethnicity who is mostly known for the unique music he constructs that ranges from alternative metal to melodic tunes...
  
  
• Ceylan

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• Murat Dalkılıç
  Murat Dalkılıç
  Murat Dalkılıç is a Turkish pop singer.-Biography:Murat Dalkılıç was born in Izmir and lived in Kuşadası. At a young age he decided to become a basketball player. He played in Kuşadası Spor Basketball team for years....
  
  
• :tr:Nurhan Damcıoğlu
• :tr:Betül Demir
• :tr:Melike Demirağ
• :tr:Rüştü Demirci
• Demir Demirkan
  Demir Demirkan
  Demir Demirkan is a Turkish musician, Eurovision Song Contest winning composer, formerly guitarist for thrash metal band Mezarkabul. Demir Demirkan started his music life when he was 13 and played guitar with various groups in college...
  
  
• :tr:Mediha Demirkıran
• Ayla Dikmen
  Ayla Dikmen
  Ayla Dikmen was a Turkish singer.-Biography:Born in Kütahya on 25 March 1944, Dikmen began her professional singing career with Yavuz Özışık. She met Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu behind the scenes at a radio program and joined his orchestra under the stage name "Parla Nur"...
  
  
• :tr:Zeynep Dizdar
• Kenan Doğulu
• Nükhet Duru
  Nükhet Duru
  Nükhet Duru is a Turkish singer. She started singing at Florya Deniz Club in Istanbul in 1971. She released her first 45 album “Aklımda Sen Fikrimde Sen – Karadır Kaşların” in 1974. It was followed by many singles like “Beni Benimle Bırak – Gerisi Vız Gelir” , with which she won a Golden Plate....
  
  

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• Arzu Ece
  Arzu Ece
  Arzu Ece Otyam is a Turkish singer, best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1989 and 1995.- Eurovision Song Contest :Ece made five appearances in the Turkish Eurovision Song Contest selection as follows:...
  
  
• :tr:Ege (şarkıcı)
• Sibel Egemen
  Sibel Egemen
  -Biography:She is the granddaughter of Turkish composer Muzaffer İlkar. Egemen got training as a child in ballet, violin and piano. She began her professional musical career in 1975 and became one of the most popular singers in Turkey with a song called Hayret...
  
  
• Emrah
  Emrah İpek
  Emrah İpek, simply known as Emrah, is a Turkish singer and actor. He sings mostly in pop and arabesque genres.Born in Ergani, Diyarbakır Province, he professionally entered the music world with his album Ağam Ağam already during his middle school time in 1984...
  
  
• Esin Engin
  Esin Engin
  Esin Engin , was a Turkish musician, composer, arranger and film actor.-Biography:He was born in Sivas, Turkey in 1945 to a family of Crimean Tatar origin. He was graduated from North Collins High School in New York, USA in 1963. Then he returned to Turkey and completed a journalist degree in...
  
  
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• Candan Erçetin
  Candan Erçetin
  Candan Erçetin, is a Turkish singer and songwriter.-Biography:Candan Erçetin was born on 10 February 1963 in Kırklareli, Turkey in an Albanian family. She studied at Lycée de Galatasaray, and graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in Archaeology...
  
  
• :tr:Özdemir Erdoğan
• Sertab Erener
  Sertab Erener
  Sertab Erener is a Turkish pop music singer and also a cross-over soprano with a vocal range that extends to high F. She is one of the most successful female Turkish pop singers in her homeland, and is considered one of the divas of Turkish pop music...
  
  
• Gülben Ergen
  Gülben Ergen
  Gülben Ergen is a Turkish singer and occasional actress. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey, and has acted in films and on television. Her most famous role is probably that of Melek in Dadı, the Turkish version of The Nanny. She was named Miss Cinema 1987 and later by the help of her famous friends...
  
  
• Fatih Erkoç
  Fatih Erkoç
  Fatih Erkoç is a Turkish jazz and pop music singer and composer.- Biography :Fatih Erkoç is the son of Hasan Erkoç. Hasan Erkoç was an oud musician. He gave a violin to Fatih Erkoç, when Fatih Erkoç was three years old. Fatih Erkoç studied at Istanbul Municipality Conservatory...
  
  
• Ege Can Kepoğlu
• Ersen
• Bülent Ersoy
  Bülent Ersoy
  Bülent Ersoy is a transgender Turkish celebrity and popular singer of Ottoman classical music. Over the years, Ersoy has become a symbol for the increased tolerance for LGBT figures in Turkish media....
  
  
• Neşet Ertaş
  Neset Ertas
  Neşet Ertaş is a Turkish folk music singer, lyrics writer and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama. His profession in Turkish is known as halk şairi, which literally means "folk poet"....
  
  
• Ertuğ
  Ertug Ergin
  Ertuğ Ergin, more simply known as Ertuğ, is a Turkish alternative pop-rock singer/song-writer.-External links:* http://www.ertugfan.com/ a fan web-site...
  
  
• :tr:Esengül
• Esmeray
  Esmeray
  Esmeray Diriker was a Turkish singer.-Biography:Esmeray is of Afro-Turkish descent was born in the Emirgan district of Istanbul. In 1960, she dropped out of her last year of Emirgan Secondary School, to join the Istanbul community theatre, and performed on stage for the first time in a children's...
  
  
• Yonca Evcimik
  Yonca Evcimik
  Yonca Evcimik is a Turkish pop singer and actress.-Biography:Evcimik studied dance and ballet at the academy of music at Mimar Sinan University. In an interview she revealed that she worked as a sales agent for a life insurance company before starting her career. After graduation she worked at...
  
  
• Erol Evgin
  Erol Evgin
  Erol Evgin , is a Turkish pop singer, composer and film actor.-Biography:Erol Evgin was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1947. He finished his high school education in Istanbul High School in 1965. Then he studied architecture in Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts...
  
  
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• Orhan Gencebay
  Orhan Gencebay
  Orhan Gencebay is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.-Early life and musical background:...
  
  
• Leyla Gencer
  Leyla Gencer
  Leyla Gencer, or Ayşe Leyla Çeyrekgil was a world-renowned Turkish operatic soprano.Known as "La Diva Turca" and "La Regina" in the opera world, Gencer was a notable bel canto soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire...
  
  
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• :tr:Ferhat Göçer
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• Göksel
  Göksel Demirpençe
  Göksel Demirpençe , better known as simply Göksel, is a Turkish folk pop/rock singer-songwriter.-Biography:...
  
  
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• :tr:Özay Gönlüm
• :tr:Grup Gündoğarken
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• Ebru Gündeş
  Ebru Gündes
  Ebru Gündeş is a Turkish pop-folk singer, actress, and television personality.- Early life :Ebru Gündeş went to primary school in Ankara. Moving back to İstanbul with her family afterwards, she had to discontinue her education due to financial hardship...
  
  
• Burcu Güneş
  Burcu Günes
  -Early years:Burcu Güneş was born on the 12 of August, 1975 in the city of İzmir. Since her early childhood, Burcu grew up surrounded by music allowing for her early exposure into the music industry. When she composed her first piece at the age of 12, it became clear to her along with those that...
  
  
• :tr:Gökhan Güney
• Aslı Güngör
  Aslı Güngör
  Aslı Güngör is a Turkish pop-folk singer and songwriter.She became a professional singer when she was discovered by the "TRT İzmir Gençlik Korosu" talent show while studying atDokuz Eylül University...
  
  
• Seden Gürel
  Seden Gürel
  Seden Gürel is a Turkish singer and songwriter.She studied at Bahariye Middle school and Kadıköy Anatolian High School. Later she studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University. She made her first recording at the age of 14...
  
  
• Müslüm Gürses
  Müslüm Gürses
  Müslüm Akbaş , better known as Müslüm Gürses is a Turkish folk singer.He was born in 1953 in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. He married Muhterem Nur in 1983....
  
  
• :tr:Yıldırım Gürses
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• Yıldız Kaplan
  Yildiz Kaplan
  Yıldız Kaplan is a Turkish actress, fashion model and pop singer.-Biography:She was born in Bafra, Samsun Province in 1970...
  
  
• :tr:Gülden Karaböcek
• :tr:Gülden Karaböcek
• Cem Karaca
  Cem Karaca
  Muhtar Cem Karaca , also called Cem Baba , was a prominent Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Işın Karaca
  Isin Karaca
  Işın began her musical career as vocalist for Sezen Aksu. In 1997, she performed songs in the Turkish translation of Disney's Hercules' Soundtrack. She also performed the Turkish translations of this album. In 1999 she became the lead vocalist of the musical group "Panic Attack", but the group...
  
  
• :tr:Sevda Karaca
• Nil Karaibrahimgil
  Nil Karaibrahimgil
  Nil Karaibrahimgil , also popularly known simply as Nil , is a well known Turkish singer and songwriter mostly noted for her distinct lyrics...
  
  
• Karakan
  Karakan
  Karakan is a Turkish rap group.In 1991, Alpertunga Köksal aka Alper Aga established the Turkish group Karakan in Germany.In 1993, Porno Ahmet and Kerim Yüzer aka Kabus Kerim joined Karakan...
  
  
• :tr:Suzan Kardeş
• Kayahan
  Kayahan
  Kayahan is a Turkish pop singer and composer, one of the consistently best-selling musicians in Turkey. He writes all of his own material and has released more than eight best-selling albums during a career spanning 30 years.-Biography:Kayahan was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1949...
  
  
• :tr:Murat Kekilli
• Gökhan Kırdar
  Gökhan Kirdar
  Gökhan Kırdar, born on June 2, 1970 in Aydın, is a Turkish musician and film score composer.He attended Yıldız University in Istanbul to study architecture in 1988. However, he devoted himself to music and soon gained success with his soundtrack, released in 1993. Then he released two highly...
  
  
• Fikret Kızılok
  Fikret Kizilok
  Fikret Kızılok was a Turkish musician. He was a pioneer of Turkish rock music and an early experimentalist...
  
  
• :tr:Kibariye
• Klips ve Onlar
  Klips ve Onlar
  Klips ve Onlar was a Turkish band of the 1980s.They represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song Halley which reached 9th position, the highest ever for the country until then....
  
  
• :tr:Ali Kocatepe
• :tr:Harun Kolçak
• :tr:Günce Koral
• Erkin Koray
  Erkin Koray
  Erkin Koray , has been in the Turkish rock music scene since the late 1950s or early 1960s. He is widely acclaimed as being the first person to ever play rock and roll in Turkey; in 1957, he and his band gained fame by playing covers of Elvis Presley and Fats Domino...
  
  
• :tr:Yasemin Kumral
• Kurban
  Kurban
  Kurban is a Turkish rock band formed in 1995. The members are Kerem Tüzün, Burak Gürpınar, Deniz Yılmaz and Özgür Kankaynar....
  
  
• Burak Kut
  Burak Kut
  Burak Kut is a Turkish pop singer.-Biography:As a child, Burak attended Müziğe Çapa and played in the orchestra for many years. He continued playing in an orchestra until he entered high school at İstanbul Anadolu Güzel Sanatlar Lisesi, where he began to play flute and piano...
  
  

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• Barış Manço
  Baris Manço
  Barış Manço was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer. He composed about 200 songs, some of which were translated into a variety of languages including English, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Urdu and Arabic...
  
  
• maNga (band)
• :tr:Asu Maralman
• :tr:Mavi Işıklar
• MFÖ
  Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan
  Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan is a Turkish band. The names of the band's singers are Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner and Özkan Uğur....
  
  
• :tr:Metin Milli
• :tr:Mirkelam
• :tr:Modern Folk Üçlüsü
• Moğollar
  Mogollar
  Moğollar is one of the pioneer bands in Turkish rock music for about 40 years and one of the founders of Turkish folk rock...
  
  
• Mor ve Ötesi
  Mor ve Ötesi
  Mor ve Ötesi is a Turkish alternative rock band from Istanbul. Its four current members are Harun Tekin , Kerem Kabadayı , Burak Güven and Kerem Özyeğen . Former members include Alper Tekin and Derin Esmer...
  
  
• :tr:Mualla Mukadder Atakan
• :tr:Serap Mutlu Akbulut
• :tr:Hasan Mutlucan
• :tr:Emel Müftüoğlu
• Zeki Müren
  Zeki Müren
  Zeki Müren was a prominent Turkish singer, composer and actor. He was famous for his compelling voice and precise articulation in his singing of both established Turkish classical music and contemporary songs.-Biography:Müren grew up in the provincial capital city of Bursa in western Turkey...
  
  

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• :tr:Nadide Sultan
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• Nilüfer
  Nilüfer Yumlu
  Nilüfer Yumlu is a Turkish pop singer known as Nilüfer.In 1992, one of her biggest hits, Show Yapma, included in Yine Yeni Yeniden album...
  
  

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• :tr:Gülistan Okan
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• Zuhal Olcay
  Zuhal Olcay
  Zuhal Olcay is a famous Turkish actress and singer.-Biography:She started first as an actress in 1980's and became famous with films like "Amansız Yol", "Kurşun Ata Ata Biter", "Bir Avuç Gökyüzü", "Halkalı Köle" and "Dünden Sonra Yarından Önce"...
  
  
• Serdar Ortaç
  Serdar Ortaç
  Serdar Ortaç is one of the popular singers of the Turkish pop folk music since 1990s.-Early life:He was born in Istanbul...His first album was the best selling album of the year by 2 million copies. His album, Cakra was the best selling album of 2004 as well.He composes most of the songs in his...
  
  
• Bülent Ortaçgil
  Bülent Ortaçgil
  Bülent Ortaçgil is a Turkish composer and singer.-Biography:He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1950. He moved to Istanbul after starting elementary school which he finished at Sultanahmet Elementary School in Istanbul. He completed his middle school and high school education at Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi...
  
  
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• Ayşe Hatun Önal
  Ayse Hatun Önal
  Ayşe Hatun Önal, is a Turkish model, actress, singer and Miss Turkey 1999 who represented her country in the 49th Miss World 1999 in London, England....
  
  
• Füsun Önal
  Füsun Önal
  Füsun Önal is a Turkish pop music singer, theatre actress and writer.-Biography:She was born in Kadıköy, Istanbul on 11 March 1947. Her father was a soldier in the Turkish army and her mother was a house wife. Füsun grew up in Ankara. During her childhood, she played mandolin and accordion...
  
  
• Nazan Öncel
  Nazan Öncel
  Nazan Öncel is one of Turkey's most successful and famous pop music and pop rock singers/songwriters. She writes her own songs, does the arrangements for most of them and has also written songs for many famous singers such as Tarkan and İbrahim Tatlıses.She's mostly known for her unique writing...
  
  
• :tr:Ferdi Özbeğen
• Soner Özbilen
  Soner Özbilen
  Soner Özbilen is a Turkish folk singer, conductor, and compiler.- Early life :He was born in Boğazlıyan in 1947 to an immigrant family from Kosovo....
  
  
• :tr:Jülide Özçelik
• :tr:Yaşar Özel
• :tr:Gökhan Özen
• :tr:Belkıs Özener
• :tr:Tülay Özer
• Zerrin Özer
  Zerrin Özer
  Zerrin Özer is a famous Turkish pop singer. She is called as Turkey's Janis Joplin by several fans. She has very famous hits such as "Gönül" , "Dayanamıyorum" , "Dünya Tatlısı" and "Paşa Gönlüm" -Biography:She was born in 1957 in Ankara, Turkey...
  
  
• :tr:Tuğba Özerk
• Ahmet Özhan
  Ahmet Özhan
  Ahmet Özhan is a prominent Turkish classic music singer, conductor and actor.- Biography :He started singing in Turkish clubs when he was about 18...
  
  
• :tr:Yüksel Özkasap
• :tr:Bora Öztoprak
• :tr:Eda Özülkü
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• Şebnem Paker
  Sebnem Paker
  Şebnem Paker is a Turkish guitarist and singer.-Biography:She attended the Department of Classical Guitar at Istanbul University State Conservatory during 1992-1996. Later, she studied singing at Marmara University Music Department....
  
  
• Pamela
  Pamela Spence
  Pamela Aslı Spence is a Turkish pop-rock singer.Born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a British American father and a Turkish mother, she sings in Turkish, which she learned at the age of 15, after her family moved to Turkey. In addition to her solo career, she has collaborated with a number of other...
  
  
• :tr:Hakan Peker
• Ajda Pekkan
  Ajda Pekkan
  Ayşe Ajda Pekkan is a Turkish pop singer and actress. Through a career spanning five decades thus far, Pekkan has released more than 20 albums and, with Sezen Aksu, is the most commercially successful female Turkish music artist with the sales of over 30 million copies worldwide. She is nicknamed...
  
  
• :tr:Semiramis Pekkan
• Pentagram
  Mezarkabul
  Mezarkabul is a Turkish metal band formed by Hakan Utangaç and Cenk Ünnü. Mezarkabul is known for integrating Anatolian elements into their music. Mezarkabul means 'accepting the grave', or literally 'grave accept' in Turkish....
  
  

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• Arif Sağ
  Arif Sag
  Arif Sağ is a singer, bağlama virtuoso and leading figure in modern Turkish folk music, as well as a former MP in the Turkish parliament, and an academic....
  
  
• :tr:Pınar Sağ
• :tr:Demet Sağıroğlu
• :tr:Mustafa Sağyaşar
• :tr:Vedat Sakman
• Ziynet Sali
  Ziynet Sali
  Ziynet Sali is a British-Turkish Cypriot singer famous in Cyprus and Turkey.-Biography:Ziynet was born in Cyprus on April 29, 1975 to Turkish Cypriot parents. Her father had been living in the United Kingdom since 1963 and had met her mother once he returned to his native Cyprus whilst he was on...
  
  
• :tr:Yeşim Salkım
• :tr:Leman Sam
• :tr:Tuğçe San
• Mustafa Sandal
  Mustafa Sandal
  Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Italian and French. He emerged in the early 1990s with the revival of Turkish pop music and is one of the most successful pop singers in Turkey with overall sales of 13 million copies...
  
  
• :tr:Soner Sarıkabadayı
• Seda Sayan
  Seda Sayan
  Seda Sayan is a Turkish pop folk singer, actress and TV variety-show hostess. She performed in the comedy "Hababam Sınıfı 3,5" in 2006. She now hosts a very popular talk show on channel D in Turkey, which is called "Sabahların Sultanı". The last part of this talk show had been shown under the...
  
  
• Emel Sayın
  Emel Sayin
  Emel Sayın is a Turkish singer of Turkish classical music. She styles herself the "queen and ambassador of Turkish classical music"....
  
  
• :tr:Suat Sayın
• :tr:Ümit Sayın
• Sefarad
  Sefarad
  Sefarad was a Sephardic music band from Turkey. The band's name is an ancient Jewish name for Spain, the homeland of Sephardi Jews and the Ladino language that derived from Old Spanish, and which is in danger of language extinction among the Turkish Jewish community...
  
  
• Deniz Seki
  Deniz Seki
  Deniz Seki is a Turkish singer. Her family is rooted from Antalya. They moved to Istanbul from Antalya.She joined TRT and met Melih Kibar. Through him she worked with Emel and Kenan Doğulu. Deniz's album Hiç kimse Değilim came out in 1997...
  
  
• :tr:Hazal Selçuk
• Münir Nurettin Selçuk
  Münir Nurettin Selçuk
  Münir Nurettin Selçuk was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer. He was one of the most revered names in Turkish music.-Biography:...
  
  
• Timur Selçuk
  Timur Selçuk
  Timur Selçuk is a renowned Turkish singer, pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He is a son of the legendary Turkish neo-classical music composer, Münir Nurettin Selçuk, and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk. He started playing piano at the age of five and...
  
  
• Müzeyyen Senar
  Müzeyyen Senar
  Müzeyyen Senar is a Turkish classical music performer. Born in Gököz in the Keles district, Bursa, Ottoman Empire, she is known as the diva of the Turkish Republic.- Discography :- Links :...
  
  
• :tr:Nuri Sesigüzel
• :tr:Gülay Sezer
• :tr:Ahmet Sezgin
• :tr:Nesrin Sipahi
• Ruhi Su
  Ruhi Su
  Mehmet Ruhi Su was a Turkish opera singer, Turkish folk singer and saz virtuoso of Armenian origin.-Early life:Mehmet Ruhi Su was born 1912 in Van, Turkey to an Armenian family...
  
  
• :tr:Suavi
• :tr:Seyfettin Sucu
• :tr:Suat Suna
• Sultana (rapper)
  Sultana (rapper)
  Songül Aktürk better known by her stage name Sultana is famous Turkish female rapper of Circassian descent.-Discography:-External links:***...
  
  

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• :tr:Selami Şahin
• Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu
  Asik Veysel Satiroglu
  Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu , also known as just Aşık Veysel, was a Turkish alevi minstrel and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla district, Sivas, on October 25, 1894 and died on March 21, 1973...
  
  
• :tr:Mediha Şen Sancakoğlu
• Şenay
• :tr:Adnan Şenses
• Aşık Mahzuni Şerif
  Asik Mahzuni Serif
  Aşık Mahzuni Şerif , also known as Mahsuni Şerif, was a folk musician, ashik, composer, poet, and author from Turkey.Mahzuni Şerif was born in Berçenek village of Afşin, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey in 1940...
  
  
• :tr:İlhan Şeşen
• :tr:Nazan Şoray

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• :tr:Erkut Taçkın
• :tr:Taner
• Seyyal Taner
  Seyyal Taner
  Seyyal Taner is a Turkish singer and actress.Although famed for her music, Taner started her career as an actress with appearances in around 40 films....
  
  
• :tr:Sevim Tanürek
• :tr:Şecaettin Tanyerli
• Tarkan
• :tr:Ziya Taşkent
• İbrahim Tatlıses
  İbrahim Tatlıses
  -References:...
  
  
• Ferdi Tayfur
  Ferdi Tayfur
  Ferdi Tayfur is a Turkish arabesque singer, actor and composer. In recent years, he has also become popular in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Trinidad and Tobago, Syria and Iran...
  
  
• Kerim Tekin
  Kerim Tekin
  Kerim Tekin was born in Erzincan, Turkey on April 18, 1975. He was interested in music from a very early age. While in middle-school, he took vocal and guitar lessons. He started his music career, while still in high school, playing in night clubs....
  
  
• Özlem Tekin
  Özlem Tekin
  Özlem Tekin is a Turkish singer, TV show host and occasional actress, primarily known for her music. Though she started out in the hard rock genre, her music has progressed to incorporate different styles such as house, punk, pop and Turkish folk music.-Life and career:Özlem Tekin was born in...
  
  
• Teoman
• :tr:Gökhan Tepe
• :tr:Birsen Tezer
• Yıldız Tilbe
  Yildiz Tilbe
  Yıldız Tilbe is a Turkish pop folk singer and one of the best selling musical artists in Turkey, known especially for her eastern-infused ballads.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• :tr:Necdet Tokatlıoğlu
• Sibel Tüzün
  Sibel Tüzün
  Sibel Tüzün is a Turkish pop/rock/jazz singer.- Life and career :Sibel began her musical education at the TRT Istanbul Children's Choir...
  
  

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• :tr:Şevket Uğurluer
• Umay Umay
• :tr:Urfalı Babi
• :tr:Aylin Urgal

Y

• Yalın
  Yalin
  Yalın is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter. He achieved success with the song "Zalim".-Early life:Hüseyin Yalın was born on March 30, 1980 in Istanbul, Turkey. Yalın wrote his first songs during his high school years and delved further into music when he got into college to study economics. It...
  
  
• Semiha Yankı
  Semiha Yanki
  Semiha Yankı is a Turkish pop music singer, presenter and film actress. She is best known for representing Turkey for the first time at the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song Seninle Bir Dakika.-Discography:...
  
  
• :tr:Ferda Anıl Yarkın
• :tr:Yaşar
• Gönül Yazar
  Gönül Yazar
  Gönül Yazar , born in the port city of Izmir on Augsust 12, 1936, is a popular Turkish singer and actress. She is one of the most famous Turkish entertainers of all time with a peak in 1960s and 1970s. Her sister Belkıs Özener is also a singer.At the age of 14, she won a singing competition called...
  
  
• :tr:Yeliz
• Hande Yener
  Hande Yener
  Hande Yener is a Turkish pop singer. Over the past decade, she has introduced different styles to the ever expanding Turkish pop music scenery. Each one of her albums has generated a lot of interest as well as anticipation due to the different styles, genres and rhythms that she incorporates into...
  
  
• :tr:Aşkın Nur Yengi
• :tr:Abdullah Yüce
• Yeni Türkü
  Yeni Türkü
  Yeni Türkü is one of the best selling and best-known bands in Turkey. The group has held concerts in more than twenty countries and has recorded many albums since forming in 1978. Their musical style is characterized by a combination of traditional Turkish and modern musical instruments, including...
  
  
• :tr:Nur Yoldaş
• :tr:Hamiyet Yüceses
• :tr:Işıl Yücesoy
• Levent Yüksel
  Levent Yüksel
  - Biography :Like Sertab Erener and Aşkın Nur Yengi, Levent Yüksel is one of the singers introduced to Turkish music by Sezen Aksu. During his education in the now İstanbul University State Conservatory, Department of Contrabass, he played his bass in various nightclubs, along many singers...
  
  

See also

• List of Turkish composers
• Culture of Turkey
  Culture of Turkey
  The culture of Turkey combines a largely diverse and heterogeneous set of elements that are derived from the Ottoman, European, Middle Eastern and Central Asian traditions...
  
  
• Music of Turkey
  Music of Turkey
  The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and has many copies and references of Byzantine music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, Balkan music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences...
  
  
• Turkish classical music
  Ottoman classical music
  Ottoman classical music developed in Istanbul and major Ottoman towns from Skopje to Cairo, from Tabriz to Morocco through the palace, mosques, and sufi lodges of the Ottoman Empire. Above all a vocal music, Ottoman music traditionally accompanies a solo singer with a small instrumental ensemble...
  
  
• Turkish folk music
  Turkish folk music
  Turkish folk music combines the distinct cultural values of all civilisations that have lived in Anatolia and the Ottoman territories in Europe and Asia...
  
  
• Kanto (music)
  Kanto (music)
  Kanto is a popular genre of Turkish music.-Terminology:Italian opera and theater had a profound effect on Turkish culture during the early 20th century. The terminology of music and theater derived from Italian...
  
  
• Turkish pop music
  Turkish pop music
  Turkish pop music had its humble beginnings in the late 1950s with Turkish cover versions of a wide range of imported popular styles, including rock and roll, tango, and jazz...
  
  
• Anatolian Rock
  Anatolian rock
  Anatolian rock is a fusion of Turkish folk and rock music. It emerged during the mid-1960s, soon after rock groups such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Status Quo and Omega became popular in Turkey...
  
  
• Arabesque music
• Turkish hip hop
  Turkish hip hop
  -History:Before Turkish hip hop took hold in Turkey, specifically Istanbul and Ankara, it originally grew out of Turkish ethnic enclaves in Germany. Owing its large population to the Turkish migrants that came to Germany in the 1960s as Gastarbeiter , 2/3 of all Turks in Germany are under the age...
  
  
• Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest
  Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest
  Turkey participated in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1975, represented by Semiha Yankı performing "Seninle Bir Dakika", but did not achieve any considerable success until the late 1990s...