Sibel Tüzün
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| Sibel Tüzün | ||
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| Image:SibelTuzunEurovisionPromotion.jpg Sibel Tüzün representing Turkey in Eurovision Song Contest 2006
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| Background information | ||
| Born | September 29, 1971 | |
| Origin | Turkey | |
| Genre(s) | Pop, Rock | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Song-writer | |
| Years active | 1978 - present | |
| Label(s) | Raks, Ezgi, Bay | |
| Website | sibeltuzun.com | |
Sibel Tüzün (born 29 September 1971 in Istanbul) is a Turkish Pop/Rock singer.
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[edit] Life and career
Sibel began her music education by joining the TRT Istanbul Children's Choir. In secondary school, she joined the Youth Choir of TRT where she met Gokcen Koray, Cenan Akin and Hikmet Simsek.
She showed a great interest in pop and rock music during her schooling years at Besiktas Ataturk High School. This culminated in a third place finish in a Song Contest among high-schoolers in Turkey. This caught the attention of Melih Kibar, one of Turkey's most prominent composers. She started to recording her sound for advertisements. Among others, Sibel Tüzün sang with Ajda Pekkan and Nukhet Duru, as well as competing in National Finals of Eurovision Song Contest
In 1988, she enrolled in Istanbul University's famous Music Conservatory. In 1991, she decided to pursue a professional music career, signing up with the Raks Müzik label.
Her first solo album Ah Biz Kızlar was released in 1992. This album shot Sibel to mass popularity within Turkey. The next year was spent on an exhaustive tour. After working with Robert Bricknell in London for a while, she returned to Turkey and released her second album, Nefes Keser Asklar in 1995. This too was extremely successful, proving that her debut was no flash in the pan.
After completing a 1997 tour of Europe, Sibel started her own production company Arinna Muzik. Her album ‘Hayat Buysa Ben Yokum Bu Yolda’ (If This Is Life, I'm Not In) was released in 1998 and contained eight songs with lyrics written by Sibel. The album also demonstrated Sibel's production talents, adding to her reputation as an artist, where even French channel MCM took notice of her talent. Her continental fame was sealed with the hit Yine Yalınzım in 2002.
By 2003, she released her fifth album, Kırmızı (Red). This brought her to the peak of her career, making her more popular than ever.
Her sixth album, Kıpkırmızı (Crimson) which included Greek versions and remixes of songs of Kırmızı, came out a year later to great success. Sibel then announced that she would take some time off following the birth of her first child, Elaya.
Sibel Tüzün represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 which was held in Athens with the song Süper Star (Superstar). She also recorded English and Greek versions of the song, however, just like Gülseren's song, TRT has decided to present the song in Turkish, disnoticing Sertab Erener's and Athena's successes by representing Turkey with English songs, many people has decided that Sibel's song is better than Gülseren's as well. Unlike Gülseren, Tüzün finished in 11th place, with a better success, but still not enough for Turkey to secure an automatic final spot for next year's edition.
She is currently working on her new album's CD release, Saten. It was only digitally available on Turkey, released over internet in November 2005. Saten will be released in Europe with a different title, "Satin", translation of Saten. She already released a single from Satin at 2005, named "Seviyorum Seveceğim".
Sibel Tüzün speaks Turkish, English and Greek fluently. Among other things, she is an avid sailor and an accomplished co-driver, having assisted Rally driver Ethem Genim for 2 seasons.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Ah Biz Kızlar (Oh, us girls) (1992)
- Nefes Keser Asklar (Love that takes your breath away) (1995)
- Hayat Buysa Ben Yokum Bu Yolda (If This Is Life, I'm Not In) (1998)
- Yine Yalnızım (Alone Again) (2002)
- Kırmızı (Red) (2003)
- Kıpkırmızı (Crimson red) (2004)
- Saten (Satin) (2006) (upcoming)
[edit] Singles
- Seviyorum Seveceğim I love and will love (2005)
- Süper Star Super star (2006)
not sure if she spaks greek fluently or english but she can speak them in general
