Mehmet Barış Manço, better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host. Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he was a pioneer of rock music in Turkey and one of the founders of the Anatolian rock genre. Manço composed around 200 songs and is among the best-selling Turkish artists to date and the winner of the most awards. Many of his songs were translated into other languages including English, French, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, and German. Through his TV programme, 7'den 77'ye, Manço travelled the world and visited many countries. He remains one of Turkey's most popular public figures long after his death.
Sertab Erener is a Turkish singer, songwriter and composer. With her coloratura soprano voice, she started working as a backing vocalist for Sezen Aksu, and with Aksu's help she released her first studio album in the 1990s. Because of her education in classical music, she initially had difficulties in performing pop music. Although she did experimental works from time to time, she eventually preferred to focus on making pop music instead of making avant-garde works, in order to make her music heard by a larger audience. In some of her works, she combined Western music and Eastern music, and benefited from operas as well as classical Turkish music together with ethnic elements. With her entrance to Europe's market in the early 2000s, many of her works were also sold in Turkey as well as European countries.
Kurban were a Turkish heavy metal band formed in 1995. The band's members were Kerem Tüzün, Burak Gürpınar, Deniz Yılmaz and Özgür Kankaynar.
Redd is a Turkish rock band established in 1996 by tenor opera singer Doğan Duru and guitarist Berke Hatipoğlu under the name Ten. They used to play at bars until they set up their own studio in 2004. Their first album, titled "50/50", produced by Levent Büyük, was published a year later by Stardium Müzik, already under the name Redd. The first music video was shot for "Mutlu Olmak İçin". Their second studio album, "Kirli Suyunda Parıltılar", came out in 2006 under the label Pasaj Müzik. Their song "Falan Filan" entered the MTV World Music Charts at the 10th position. In 2007 the band produced their third album, "Plastik Çiçekler ve Böcek". Redd started the studio recordings of their fourth album in 2009, published by Sony Music. Their first original soundtrack album for director Çağan Irmak's feature film Prensesin Uykusu was released in 2010. Songs from this album managed to enter the European music charts. Their last album, "Mükemmel Boşluk" was published in 2016 under the Pasaj label.
Ohannes Tunçboyacı, better known as Onno Tunç, was a leading Armenian-Turkish musician, working mainly as a composer, arranger and a music producer. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double bass, contributing to the albums of several musicians. He was one of the prominent names of Turkish pop music in the 1980s and 1990s with his arrangements. He was the elder brother of musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan.
Aydilge Sarp is a Turkish writer, poet and singer-songwriter.
Hakan Altun is a Turkish singer, songwriter and instrumentalist.
Emre Aydın is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. 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. Cadde.
Feridun Düzağaç is a Turkish rock music singer and songwriter, usually known for his pessimistic and melancholic songs.
Cem Filiz, better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak origin, singer-songwriter and record producer.
Mahsun Kırmızıgül is a singer songwriter, actor and director, scriptwriter, music composer, producer of Zaza descent. Mahsun Kırmızıgül is also known as a businessman for his partnership in one of the leading music production companies, Prestij Müzik, in Turkey until 2002.
Kırık Kalpler Durağında is the sixth studio album by Turkish singer Candan Erçetin. It was released on 16 December 2009 by Pasaj Müzik. It was her second studio album released by this company, and her first major work since the 2004 release of Melek. The album features elements of pop music, folk music and hip hop. Candan Erçetin is the album's major songwriter, having written ten of its songs on her own. Out of these ten songs, six of them were composed by her as well. All of the songs were arranged by Alper Erinç.
Alişan Serkan Tektaş, better known as Alişan, is a Turkish singer. At high school he recorded his first album. In 1997, his first hit album Sana Birşey Olmasın was released. He was born in Şişhane district of Istanbul. He is originally from Zaza and is from Bingöl. He graduated from Kuvay-ı Milliye primary school, Private Şişli College secondary school, and Private Evrim High School, respectively.
Ali Tufan Kıraç is a Turkish anatolian rock and heavy metal musician.
Özcan Deniz is a Turkish actor, singer, composer, writer and director, who is of Kurdish descent.
Özdemir Erdoğan is a Turkish singer-songwriter and composer. He was elected as a Turkish state artist in 1998.
Kolpa are a Turkish rock band originating from Adana.
Ceylan Avcı is an the most Idealistic and national conservative ideologist Turkish women Turkish folk music artist, musician, arranger, producer, television presenter and actress. Her mother is from Bayburt, Bayburt Province and her father is from Pertek, Tunceli Province. She emigrated to North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg, West Germany with her family at the age of 8 and lived there until she was 15. in 1990, she returned to Turkey with her family. Ceylan started her career in 1984 as a child singer and actress. She started her career by taking recurring roles in a number of movies and released her own studio albums. Her 1986 album, Seni Sevmeyen Ölsün, sold 1.3 million copies in Turkey. Her 2005 album, Ah Gönlüm, received a gold certification from Mü-Yap. She has been awarded twice as the Best Female Folk Singer at the Kral TV Video Music Awards. Ceylan celebrated the 35th anniversary of her music career in 2019 and released a single with her daughter Melodi Bozkurt. She also hosted a 2012–2016 years of music television talk show under the name of Ceylan Show which aired on Kanal 7 and Samanyolu TV.
Mehmet Yaşar Günaçgün, known by the mononymYaşar, is a Turkish pop music artist.
