Zuhal Olcay (née İşanç)(born 10 August 1957 in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey) is a famous Turkish actress and singer.

Biography[link]

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". Later she started a successful singing career.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

• IMDb - Filmography of Zuhal Olcay
• Biyografi.info - Biography of Zuhal Olcay

External links[link]

• Zuhal Olcay at the Internet Movie Database
• Zuhal Olcay's official website

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Can Atilla
Background information
Born	1969 Ankara, Turkey
Genres	New Age
Labels	Sony BMG
Website	http://www.canatilla.net

Can Atilla (born in 1969) is a Turkish composer and musician. He composed "Diriliş" (Resurrection), the official music for the 90th anniversary of the Turkish parliament.^[1]

Albums[link]

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• 1992: Bilinçaltı (Subconsciousness)
• 1995: Waves of Wheels
• 1996: Kuvayi Milliye Destanı (The Epic of Independence War)
• 1997: Efsaneler (The Legends)
• 1998: Ave (In Memory of Tangerine Dream)
• 1999: Albatros
• 2001: St. Florian, Dramatic Poem for Large Orchestra and Organ in memory of Anton Bruckner
• 2003: Live
• 2004: Omni
• 2005: Concorde
• 2005: Cariyeler ve Geceler (Concubines and Nights)
• 2006: 1453 - Sultanlar Aşkına (1453 - For the Sultans' Sake)
• 2007: Aşk-ı Hürrem (The Love of Hürrem)
• 2010: Altın Çağ (The Golden Age)
• 2011: Hi-Story

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Can Atilla at MTV
• 2008 article at Today's Zaman
• 2010 article at Today's Zaman

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Mustafa Ceceli (born November 2, 1980) 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. In third class, he left this faculty, he took the university entrance exams second time and he attended Yeditepe University Management department.

His professional music career has started after meeting Ozan Doğulu and with his various arrangements for Sezen Aksu. His first album was published in 2009 with the title also bearing his own name.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Mustafa Ceceli (2009)
• Mustafa Ceceli Remixes (2010)

Singles[link]

• Limon Çiçekleri (14 Mayıs 2009)
• Hastalıkta Sağlıkta (14 Şubat 2010)

Video Music[link]

• Unutamam
• Karanfil
• Limon Çiçekleri
• Hastalıkta Sağlıkta
• Dön
• Tenlerin Seçimi
• Hata
• Bekle
• Yağmur Ağlıyor

References[link]

Biography from the official website of the singer: [1]

External links[link]

Live performance of his song "Bekle" [2]

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Ahmet Kaya (October 28, 1957^[1] – November 16, 2000) Kurdish singer from Malatya, Turkey, who died on November 16, 2000 in exile in Paris.^[2] He formerly sang in Turkish. Some of his most popular songs include Ayrılık Vakti, Söyle, Ağladıkça, Oy Benim Canım, Birazdan Kudurur Deniz, Arka Mahalle, Nereden Bileceksiniz, Hani Benim Gençliğim, Yakarım Geceleri and Şafak Türküsü.

Career[link]

Ahmet Kaya was the fifth and last child of his Kurdish father, who had immigrated from Adıyaman to Malatya, and Turkish mother.^{[citation needed]} He first encountered music at the age of six when his father bought him a bağlama for his birthday. Ahmet Kaya worked for a while as a taxi driver in Istanbul before becoming well known as a singer in the mid-1980s.

His first album, Ağlama Bebeğim, was released in 1985. His popularity continued to rise into the 1990s when in 1994 he released the album Şarkılarım Dağlara which was sold a record 2.8 million copies. All of his 1990 albums to chart-toppers.

During his career he recorded approximately 20 albums and was known for his protest music and positions on social justice. Recurring themes in his songs are love towards one's mother, sacrifice, and hope.

Awards controversy[link]

At 10 February 1999 televised annual music awards ceremony, SHOW TV, at which he was to be named Musician of the Year, he spoke out about his Kurdish background and said that he wanted to produce music in his native Kurdish as naturally as he does in Turkish. He announced that he had recorded a song in Kurdish (Karwan, released on the Hoşçakalın Gözüm album in 2001) and intended to produce a video to accompany it. Because of making the announcement he was treated like a monster by some famous singers, actors, producers, journalists after his talk. This was led by Serdar Ortac who years later apologized for his behavior and the crowd also started singing the Turkish national anthem. This was an incident which led to a prosecution case which made him leave Turkey.^[3]

Exile and death[link]

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Kaya went to France in June 1999 escaping various charges arising from his political views.^{[citation needed]} Among them were the accusations that he had performed in front of a poster for the Kurdistan Workers Party at a 1993 concert in Germany, and that he had made statements in support of Abdullah Öcalan.^[4] In March 2000 he was sentenced in absentia to three years and nine months in prison on the charge of spreading separatist propaganda.^{[citation needed]} Later, however, the visual media central to allegations demonstrating Kaya in front of the poster was proven to be forged.^[5][6] He died of a heart attack in Paris in 2000, at the age of 43, and is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.

Discography[link]

References[link]

• CNN's report about his death
• Interview with Ahmet Kaya
• Interview with Gülten Kaya, Ahmet Kaya's wife
• Documentary about Ahmet Kaya

Further reading[link]

• Ferzende, Kaya. Başım Belada. TR: Gam. ISBN 975-6628-19-7. http://kitap.antoloji.com/kitap.asp?kitap=30889. 

External links[link]

• (French) His biographical information by Kurdish Institute of Paris
• Asya Radyo :Devlet Ahmet Kaya'dan özür dilemeli haberi...
• Yasaktube : Ahmet Kaya Videos
• Nabervideo : All Ahmet Kaya Videos
• YouVido: Ahmet Kaya Videolar

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Ayşe Ajda Pekkan (Turkish pronunciation: [aʒˌda pe̞kˈkan], born February 12, 1946, in Istanbul, Turkey) 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 the "Superstar" of Turkish pop music. Although famed for her music, Pekkan started her career as an actress with appearances in almost 50 films. During her music career, Pekkan has recorded songs in nine languages. Apart from Turkish, she is also fluent in English and French.

Early life[link]

Pekkan was born to Rıdvan Pekkan, an officer in the Turkish Navy, and Nevin Dobruca, a housewife. She spent her childhood at the Naval Base Gölcük in Kocaeli Province. Ajda graduated from the Çamlıca Kız Lisesi, an elite and high-profile girls' secondary school in Istanbul that had been incorporated under the Ottoman Empire. Graduates include foreign nobility and female members of the Imperial House of Osman. Language of instruction is in Turkish,French and German

Career[link]

With the help of her sister, Semiramis, she began singing at the popular Istanbul nightclub Çatı (Roof) in 1962. The following year, Pekkan won a Cover Star contest sponsored by the Turkish music magazine Ses ("Voice") and was launched on a professional career.

Between 1963 and 1967, the statuesque actress appeared in 47 films opposite popular Turkish actors, mostly in singer roles. Pekkan’s first recording, "Her Yerde Kar Var", an arrangement of Salvatore Adamo's "Tombe la Neige" by Fecri Ebcioğlu, brought her great success in 1965. In contrast to many of her contemporaries, she transited from film to music and in 1968 her record, İki Yabancı (Two Strangers), became a top seller. Pekkan’s continuing success resulted in invitations to international festivals including the Apollonia Music Festival in Athens (1968 and 1969) and the Mediterranean Song Festival in Barcelona (1969).

The success of her songs resulted in a series of Turkish-language concerts with Enrico Macias at the Paris Olympia in 1976. In acknowledgement of her nickname, Pekkan released an album called Superstar in 1977. The same year, she participated in the Yamaha Music Festival in Tokyo to great success. She released German and French records in the early 1970s, and her Pour Lui, became very successful in France. At this pinnacle, she released her second album Süperstar II in 1979.

On April 19, 1980, Pekkan represented Turkey with the entry "Petr'Oil" at the Eurovision Song Contest in Den Haag, the Netherlands.^[1] She then decided to take a break and temporarily moved to the USA. After returning to Turkey, she recorded two failed albums, Sen Mutlu Ol (You be happy) and Sevdim Seni (I Loved You) in the then current trend of Turkish music, but returned to her original type of Western pop and gave concerts in 1983 with enormous success. That same year, she released Süperstar III which she followed with Süperstar IV (1987). Superstar III was a huge success; coincidentally, it is her only album that is not available on CD. However, Superstar IV wasn't succeeded as Superstar III. It was last album on LP. She married with Mehmet Ali Bars, who is a businessman, in 1984 and divorced in 1990.

In late 1989, she began working on her an album with famous Turkish musicians including Fuat Güner from MFÖ (the band which represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1985 and 1988), Şehrazat, and Metin Özülkü. The album, simply titled Ajda 1990 signalled a new breakthrough for Pekkan, with sales of over a million. With the success of this official debut album (and also the first on CD), she immediately began working on her next album.

In 1991, she released Seni Seçtim (I Choose You), to even greater success. Hits like "Sevgide Seni Seçtim" ("I Choose You For Love"), "Eline Gözüne Dizine Dursun" ("Shame on You"), "Vazgeçme" ("Don’t Give Up"), she topped all the charts in Turkey.

In 1993, she released Ajda ‘93 which she recorded this album in Switzerland, Turkey and United States. She worked with Atilla Şereftuğ on this album, a famous Turkish musician who had written the Eurovision ’88-winning song "Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi" ("Don’t Leave Without Me") for Celine Dion. The hits of the album were Sarıl Bana (Give Me a Hug), Oyalama Beni (Don't Occupy Me), Eyvah (Alas!) and Ağlama Anne (Don't Cry Mommy).

After many successful albums she decided to release a best of album, and in September 1998, she released The Best of Ajda. Two years later, in 2000, Pekkan released another studio album, simply called Diva and enjoyed sales of over two million copies.

In 2001, she started performing in an Istanbul club Catwalk and her performances were all sold out, with the help of an eager audience looking forward to see "the superstar" after a three year hiatus. The performances were so successful that Pekkan postponed closing the show by about six months.

In 2002, she also began making a movie called Şöhret Sandalı (Boat of Fame). After several years of financial setbacks, it was released in 2006.

In the summer 2003, she released her single Sen İste (Just Want It), written by her friend Şehrazat, the popular songwriter. Six years later,in August 2006, Pekkan released her latest album Cool Kadın (Cool Woman). This album produced the number one dance hit single Vitrin and a funky disco beat called "Amazon". During the first six months over 800.000 copies of Cool Kadın was sold just in Turkey.

In the summer 2007 she began a completely sold out concert series called Ajda goes Disco performing her songs in disco rhythms with Turkey's most famous DJs live on stage. After that, Pekkan quickly began to work on a new studio album, recording it in Turkey. The album "Aynen Oyle" was released in Turkey, German and USA on July 23, 2008. To promote it, Pekkan began touring in Turkey where she performed two new songs "Flu Gibi" and "Gerisi Hikaye" from the album.

Discography[link]