Şehrazat Kemalî Söylemezoğlu (born September 3, 1952), known by her stage name

Stage name

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 Şehrazat or Şehro, is a well-known Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 celebutante, television personality, businesswoman, composer

Composer

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, songwriter

Songwriter

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, record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 and Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 & Pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 music

Music

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 singer.

Education

She has graduated from the International School of Choueifat

International School of Choueifat

The International School of Choueifat is a collection of international schools run by the SABIS school system in various countries of the Middle East. The first International School of Choueifat started in Choueifat, Lebanon in 1886 and later spread to various parts of the Gulf region...

, in Beirut

Beirut

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, Lebanon

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, which belongs to a collection of private international schools run by the SABIS of the British

United Kingdom

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 school system in various countries of the Middle East. It was her parents' wish that she attend it for the sake of a better education. She is fluent in Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

, Arabic, French

French language

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 and English

English language

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.

Early life and family

Her father Siham Kemali Söylemezoğlu (grand child of Ali Kemali Pasha - one of the former governor

Governor

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s of Konya

Konya

Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...

 city) was a famous businessman, considered the first mining

Mining

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 magnate of Turkey. Her grandfather is Süleyman Şefik Pasha

Süleyman Sefik Pasha

Süleyman Şefik Pasha was the commander of Kuvâ-i İnzibâtiyye , which was an army established on 18 April 1920 by the imperial government of the Ottoman Empire in order to fight against the Turkish National Movement in the aftermath of World War I.The Kuvâ-i İnzibâtiyye was supported by the...

. Her mother Sevinç Tevs was the daughter of the Turkish ambassador

Ambassador

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 of Republic of Albania. She is the first internationally known Jazz singer of Turkey and described by the authorities as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century". She was a diva

Diva

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 who took the winning title of 1948 Miami Jazz

Jazz

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 Festival

Festival

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, surpassing Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."...

 (the 1st runner-up) with the song "For You", composed by their family friend, the worldwide known Turkish

Turkish people

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 music producer and 12 times Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 winner, Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...

. Şehrazat, an only child from a rich family, has received a large amount of Turkish media attention due to her her wealth and lifestyle.

Hüsrev Gerede

Gerede

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, a key companion of Atatürk in the Turkish War of Independence

Turkish War of Independence

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, member of parliament and diplomat, is Şehrazat's uncle (by marriage) married to daughter of great uncle Galip Kemali Soylemezoglu of Şehrazat. The great-grandfather of Şehrazat is the most widely-recognized composer of Turkish Classical Music Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi. One of her uncles is the architect of Anıtkabir

Anitkabir

Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence and the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey...

 & Taşkışla (the main campus of Istanbul Technical University

Istanbul Technical University

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- together with Scottish

Scottish people

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 architect

Architect

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 James Smith

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) and her other uncle Cevdet Çağla is a famous composer of Turkish music. Journalist Mithat Perin (preceptor of Abdi İpekçi

Abdi Ipekçi

Abdi İpekçi was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily newspaper Milliyet.-Biography:...

) and politician Selim Sarper

Selim Sarper

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 are also close relatives. Some of the grandsons and granddaughters such as His Imperial Majesty Prince Cengiz Osmanoğlu, His Imperial Majesty Prince Ömer Fevzi Osmanoğlu, Her Imperial Majesty Mihrimah Sultan of His Imperial Majesty The Sultan Mehmet V Reshad, Emperor of the Ottomans, Caliph of the Faithful

Mehmed V

Mehmed V Reshad was the 35th Ottoman Sultan. He was the son of Sultan Abdülmecid I. He was succeeded by his half-brother Mehmed VI.-Birth:...

 are her cousins. Sehrazat's aunt, Her Imperial Majesty Princess Perizat Osmanoğlu of Ottoman is the spouse of His Imperial Majesty Prince Mehmet Nazım Osmanoğlu, eldest son of His Imperial Majesty Prince Mehmed Ziyaeddin Efendi and has a prince, His Imperial Majesty Prince Cengiz Osmanoğlu who is the heir apparent

Heir apparent

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 to His Imperial Majesty Prince Mehmet Nazım Osmanoğlu, HIM Grandprince of Ottoman a claimant to the Headship of the Imperial Family of Ottoman and uses his title of pretension Grandprince with the style of Imperial Majesty, to this marriage. Her nephew is the former goalkeeper of Galatasaray

Galatasaray

Galatasaray Spor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club based in Istanbul, most notable for its football section, also known as Galatasaray S.K.. It also fields teams in Athletics, Basketball, Wheelchair basketball, Volleyball, Water polo, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Judo, Bridge, Equestrian, Handball,...

 football club Turgay Şeren

Turgay Seren

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 and her niece is Hülya Koçyiğit

Hülya Koçyigit

Hülya Koçyiğit is a famous Turkish actress. She is considered to be one of Turkish cinema's most famous female leads and has received numerous awards such as at the prestigious Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and at various other international film festivals...

 who is a famous Turkish actress, considered to be one of Turkish cinema's most famous female leads. Everybody in her family has graduated from Galatasaray High School, the most influential school in Turkey.

Music career

The owner of hundreds of Turkish hit songs, Şehrazat's first hit song is "Yaz Yaz Yaz", sung by Turkish superstar 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...

. This song was a reform in Turkish pop music. Şehrazat's recent works "Kocaman Öpüyorum" and "Sırada Sen Varsın", are also hits composed by her, sung by famous singer Bengü

Bengü

-Albums:*Hoş Geldin - *Bağlasan Durmam - *Taktik - *Gezegen - *İki Melek - *Dört Dörtlük - -Music videos:...

. Demet Sağıroğlu's primary project "Kınalı Bebek", was also a very popular song by Şehrazat. Even though she has a very rare and wondrous voice like her mother, she is lately widely known for her music productions and compositions. 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 ....

 (a.k.a. the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and Minik Serçe, "Little Sparrow") another Turkish pop music singer, song-writer and producer who sold over 40 million albums worldwide, is the closest colleague of Şehrazat in real life. Şehrazat is also the producer for diva 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...

, former Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

 participant 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...

and Band AF.