Candan Erçetin
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Candan Erçetin, is a 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...
singer and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
.
Biography
Candan Erçetin was born on 10 February 1963 in KırklareliKirklareli
Kırklareli is the capital of Kırklareli Province in Eastern Thrace, on the European part of Turkey. The province has a coastline on the Black Sea. There is a Jewish community.-Name:It is not clearly known when the city was founded, nor under what name...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
in an Albanian family. She studied at Lycée de Galatasaray, and graduated from Istanbul University
Istanbul University
Istanbul University is a Turkish university located in Istanbul. The main campus is adjacent to Beyazıt Square.- Synopsis :A madrasa, a religious school, was established sometime in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. An institution of higher education named the...
with a degree in Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
. In 1991, she graduated from Istanbul Municipal Music School where she studied classical opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
. She represented Turkey
Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986
Turkey was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway.The Turkish national final to select their entry, the 1986 Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması Türkiye Finali, was held on 15 March at the TRT Studios in Ankara, and was hosted by Erkan Yolaç.Four songs competed in the final. An...
in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986
Eurovision Song Contest 1986
The Eurovision Song Contest 1986 was the 31st Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 3 May 1986 in the Grieg Hall in Bergen, Norway. It was the first occasion on which Norway played host to the contest...
which was held in Bergen
Bergen
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, Norway
Norway
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as a member of Klips ve Onlar
Klips ve Onlar
Klips ve Onlar was a Turkish band of the 1980s.They represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song Halley which reached 9th position, the highest ever for the country until then....
with the song "Halley
Halley (song)
"Halley" was the Turkish entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 in Bergen, Norway. It was sung by Klips ve Onlar in Turkish.On the night of the final, the song performed in the eighth position , and at the close of the voting had received 53 points, placing 9th in a...
". She had taken the place of Seden Gürel
Seden Gürel
Seden Gürel is a Turkish singer and songwriter.She studied at Bahariye Middle school and Kadıköy Anatolian High School. Later she studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University. She made her first recording at the age of 14...
, who was the member of the group but didn't go in order to complete her final exams in Architecture at ITU
Istanbul Technical University
Istanbul Technical University is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is the world's third oldest technical university dedicated to engineering sciences as well as social sciences recently, and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Turkey...
. She taught music in Lycée de Galatasaray for many years. Presently, as well as continuing to perform, she works as a lecturer at Galatasaray University
Galatasaray University
Galatasaray University or Université Galatasaray is a Turkish university established in İstanbul, Turkey in 1992, following an agreement signed with the presence of President François Mitterrand of France and President Turgut Özal of Turkey during a ceremony at Galatasaray High School, the mother...
.
Musical career
In January 1996, she completed her first solo album "Hazırım" ("I'm Ready") based on Thracian themes. In the same year, she received an award from Alem FM music radio for her album being one of the best selling Turkish pop albums of the year. In July 1996, she released her best selling single EPExtended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
"Sevdim Sevilmedim", the first ever Turkish remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
album. In June 1997 she released her second album entitled "Çapkın" ("Womanizer") using ethnic music and her own compositions. The song "Yalan" ("Lie") from this album won the Istanbul FM "Most Requested Song" award. In September 1998 her remix EP "Oyalama Artık" ("Don't Put It Off Anymore") was released, followed by her third album, "Elbette" ("Of Course") in January 2000. This album would go on to become the best-selling album of the year.
In August 2001, she released a limited edition remix album entitled "Unut Sevme" ("Forget, Don't Love") with the artist's autograph on every cover. In June 2002, her fourth album entitled "Neden" ("Why") was released including mostly her own compositions. She followed this in March 2003 with an album of French chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
s with new musical arrangements - "Candan chante hier pour aujourd'hui" ("Candan Sings Yesterday For Today"). During the same year, she released a remix album including the songs "Neden" and a new song named "Yazık Oldu" ("Spoiled"). The song was included in the soundtrack of a Gori Varta movie jointly produced by Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, Austria
Austria
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, and Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. Her next album, "Melek" ("Angel"), was released in June of the following year.
In the first half of the year 2005 she played in a musical called "Yıldızların Altında" ("Under The Stars") about old Turkish movies. In it, she co-starred with Beyazıt Öztürk
Beyazit Öztürk
Beyazıt Öztürk , also known as Beyaz, is a Turkish television personality, standup comedian and actor. He is the host of Beyaz Show, a popular Turkish talk show.-Biography:...
, Rasim Öztekin, Ragıp Savaş, Nurhan Damcıoğlu and Orhan Aydın. Later that year she released a new remix album entitled "Remix'5". This album included 9 remix versions of 6 songs from "Melek" ("Angel") and a new song called "Sevdim Anladım" ("I Understood That I Loved") adapted from the Academy Award nominated Vois Sur Ton Chemin from the movie Les Choristes
Les Choristes
The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
.
In January 2006, in the 10th year of her music career, she released the album "Aman Doktor" ("Oh, Doctor!"), which consisted of old, common Turkish-Greek melodies, sung in both languages.
Her most recently released album is "Kırık Kalpler Durağında" ("At Broken Heart Station"), which came out in December, 2009.
Television career
In 1994, she hosted a TV Magazine programme called "Kol Düğmeleri" ("Cufflinks") on Kanal DKanal D
Kanal D is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey and part of Doğan Holding which is owned by the Turkish media tycoon Aydın Doğan.Kanal D also runs an international channel, Euro D which is available online....
which ran for 17 weeks. Her next production came in 1995, when she hosted a talk show called "Randevu" ("Rendezvous") for the music channel Number One. This show ran five days a week at prime time for 13 weeks. This was followed in May 2001 by a weekly TV show named "Günlük Hayat" ("Daily Life") on the NTV
NTV Turkey
NTV is a Turkish nationwide television news channel. NTV was founded in 1996 by Turkish businessman Cavit Çağlar as the first news channel of Turkey and has partnered with MSNBC since May 2000. Aired on this channel is usually the news but also provides football games, especially La Liga matches,...
news channel for 13 weeks.
Since March 2007 she has been presenting her own music programme called "Candan Erçetin'le Beraber ve Solo Şarkılar" ("Songs With Candan Erçetin and Solo Performances") by TRT
TRT
-Broadcasting:* Tamil Radio and Television, a former Tamil language satellite channel* Televisora Regional del Táchira, a Venezuelan regional television network based in the city of San Cristóbal in Táchira...
in which she hosts a singer and performs both by herself and together with the guest singer. The songs she sings follow a weekly theme.
Notable concerts and national awards
In May 1998 she gave a concert in BremenBremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
Glocke Concert Hall followed in June 1998 by the "premier concert" of the 2nd Bosphorus Festival with the Cemal Reşit Rey
Cemal Resit Rey
Cemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor.He was born on October 25, 1904 in Jerusalem, and died on October 7, 1985 in Istanbul....
Symphony Orchestra at the Open Air Theatre in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
. She followed this with two concerts in Holland, one in Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
and the other one at Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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Paradiso Concert Hall
Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije...
in autumn of the same year. In June 1999 she gave solo concerts in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
and Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
.
In October 1998, the video clip for her song "Her Aşk Bitermiş" ("Every Love Finishes") won the French music channel MCM
MCM
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's "Best Direction" award in the Second Mediterranean Video Music Awards.
Every year in summer she opens the concert series "Most Production", and the closing concert is frequently given by her as well.
Discography
- Hazırım (1995) (I'm Ready)
- Sevdim SevilmedimSevdim Sevilmedim-Track listing:#Sevdim Sevilmedim #Umrumda Değil #Umrumda Değil #Umrumda Değil #Umrumda Değil #Sevdim Sevilmedim...
(1996) English: I Loved But Wasn't Loved - Çapkın English: Womanizer (1997)
- Oyalama ArtıkOyalama Artik-Track listing:#Oyalama Artık #Kaybettik Biz #Her Aşk Bitermiş #Aşkı Ne Sandın #Onlar Yanlış Biliyor #Oyalama Artık #Oyalama Artık...
(1998) (English: Don't Put Off Anymore) - Elbette (2000) (English: Of Course )
- Unut Sevme (2001) (English: Forget, Don't Love )
- Neden (2002) (English: Why )
- Chante Hier Pour Aujourd'huiChante Hier Pour Aujourd'huiChante Hier Pour Aujourd'hui is Candan Erçetin's fifth studio album. It was popular songs of France. She sings this album in French...
(2003) (In FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
) - RemixRemix (Candan Erçetin album)Remix is a Candan Erçetin album. There are remixes of "Neden" in this album. There is also a song named "Yazık Oldu" which is a song from Pjer Žalica's movie Fuse.-Track listing:...
(2003) - Melek (2004) (English: Angel )
- Remix'5Remix'5Remix'5 is a Candan Erçetin album. It was remixes of Melek. There's also a song from "Les Choristes" movie, 'Sevdim Anladım'.-Track listing:...
(2005) - Aman DoktorAman DoktorAman Doktor is Candan Erçetin's seventh studio album, and was released in 2005 around the tenth year of the singer's public career. The album is a compilation and partial rearrangement of popular folk songs common to Turkish and Greek cultures, sung in both languages, and represents a culmination...
(2005) English: Oh, Doctor! (In TurkishTurkish languageTurkish 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,...
and GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
) - Kırık Kalpler DurağındaKırık Kalpler DurağındaKırık Kalpler Durağında is Candan Erçetin's eighth studio album released on December 16, 2009. Album include two songs from Gölgesizler and Kaptan Feza movie: "Ben Kimim" and "Kader". Also, she covered Esmeray's hit "Unutama Beni"....
(2009) (English: Broken Hearts Station) - Aranjman 2011Aranjman 2011Aranjman 2011 is Candan Erçetin's French-Turkish covers album released in July 7, 2011. Album contains arrangements covers, which are highly popular in Turkey during 1960s-1970s.- Track listing :...
(2011) (In FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and TurkishTurkish languageTurkish 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,...
)
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See also
- Music of TurkeyMusic of TurkeyThe music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music and has many copies and references of Byzantine music, Greek music, Ottoman music, Persian music, Balkan music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences...
- Turkish pop musicTurkish pop musicTurkish pop music had its humble beginnings in the late 1950s with Turkish cover versions of a wide range of imported popular styles, including rock and roll, tango, and jazz...
- Pop folk
- Southeastern European music