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 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 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.
Tarkan Tevetoğlu is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter. Since the early 1990s, with his successful albums, he has been a prominent figure of pop music, recognized both in Turkey and worldwide.
Anatolian rock, or Turkish psychedelic rock, is a fusion of Turkish folk music and rock. It emerged during the mid-1960s, soon after rock groups became popular in Turkey. The most widely known members of this genre include Turkish musicians Barış Manço, Cem Karaca, Erkin Koray, Selda Bağcan, Fikret Kızılok alongside bands such as Moğollar.
Manga is a Turkish rock band whose music is mainly a fusion of Anatolian melodies with electronic elements. In 2009, they won both the Best Turkish Act award from MTV Turkey and consequently the Best European Act award from MTV Networks Europe in MTV Europe Music Awards 2009. They represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song "We Could Be the Same" and took second place.
Ferzan Özpetek is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy since 1978.
Kargo is a rock band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up includes Selim Öztürk on electric guitar, Burak Karataş on drums and Ozan Anlaş on vocals.
Manga is the self-titled album of Turkish rock band Manga, released in December 2004 by Sony Music/GRGDN. It was reissued in 2006, with two additional tracks and a bonus DVD. The album sold 180,000 copies and earned a gold certification. The album earned the band the Golden Butterfly Awards as Best Newcomer.
Aydilge Sarp is a Turkish writer, poet and singer-songwriter.
Fikret Kızılok was a Turkish rock musician. He was a pioneer of Anatolian rock, a prolific songwriter, impresario, multi-instrumentalist, and an early experimentalist. Due to a heart disease, he died on 22 September 2001.
Vega is a Turkish alternative rock band, founded by keyboardist Gökhan Mert Koral, vocalist Deniz Özbey, and guitarist Esat Tuğrul Akyüz in 1996. Gökhan Mert Koral left the group in early 2003. They played in many Turkish festivals like Rock'n Coke. Their biggest hits were "Bu Sabahların Bir Anlamı Olmalı", "Serzenişte", and "Elimde Değil".
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 melancholic songs.
Cem Filiz, better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak descent, singer-songwriter and record producer.
Gece is a Turkish alternative/indie rock band.
Haluk Levent is a Turkish rock music singer who helped revive the long forgotten Anatolian rock genre in the 1990s.
Cem Belevi is a Turkish pop music singer and actor. He is best known for collaborating with Ayshe on "Kim Ne Derse Desin".
Objektif is a Turkish hard rock and heavy metal band from Samsun. It was formed in 1988 and currently consists of Vecdi Yücalan, Murat Tükenmez (bass), Çağlar Abanoz (guitar), Umut Mutku (guitar), and Onur Akça (drums). The band's first studio album, Tımarlı Hastane, was released in 1990. Their other studio albums are Hayal ve Yaşam (1993), Kuşkular (1996), Künye (2000), and Sokağın Sesi (2007).
Ömür Gedik is a Turkish journalist. She is a writer for Hürriyet newspaper, artist, animal rights advocate, a member of SİYAD, and founder and president of HAÇİKO Association.
Süperstar '83 is the ninth studio album by Turkish singer Ajda Pekkan. It was released on 19 March 1983 by Balet Plak. With the release of the albums Süperstar (1977) and Süperstar 2 (1979) in the decade before, Pekkan succeeded in getting critical acclaim, however, following her poor results on the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 she stayed away from the music market for a while. Meanwhile, she released two records under the Yaşar Kekeva Plak label, but experienced various problems with the company. While Pekkan's disagreements with the company continued, in August 1982 she joined the musical Büyük Kabare with Metin Akpınar and Zeki Alasya. Some of the songs from this show, which were written by Fikret Şeneş, appeared in the third installment of the Süperstar album series.
Ceylan Avcı is a Turkish singer, arranger, 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 twice won Best Female Folk Singer at the Kral TV Video Music Awards. She hosted a 2012–2016 years of music television talk show under the name of Ceylan Show that aired on Kanal 7 and Samanyolu TV.
