Özlem Tekin
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Özlem Tekin is a Turkish
singer, TV show host and occasional actress, primarily known for her music. Though she started out in the hard rock
genre, her music has progressed to incorporate different styles such as house
, punk
, pop
and Turkish folk music
.
Tekin was born in California
, United States
into a Turkish-American family. Her father Talat Tekin was a prominent Turkologist
at UC Berkeley
. The Tekins moved to Turkey
when she was four years old. Özlem grew up in Ankara
, where she went on to study classical western music at the Hacettepe University
Music Conservatory in Ankara
, specializing in the clarinet
.
In 1993, she met Şebnem Ferah
, who has now also become another recognized rock musician in Turkey.
While still in Volvox, she met Hakan Peker and they started working on her debut solo album in 1994. This album, Kime Ne (who cares?), was eventually released in January 1996 to widespread critical acclaim. The first single Aşk Herşeyi Affeder Mi? (Does love forgive everything?), written by Barlas Erinç
shot to the top of the charts. Other hit tracks include Duvaksız Gelin (Bride without a veil) and Herkes Şanslı Doğmuyor (Not everyone is born lucky).
Then, Özlem Tekin left Hakan Peker's record label and went to İstanbul Plak
which also had acquired other popular singers like Tarkan. Her second album Öz was released in February 1998. This spawned Yol which became an enormous hit.
Laubali came out a year later to great success.
Özlem started up her own TV show on Kanal D
called Yaz Rüzgarı (Summer Wind) in 2000. This aired for 1 hour, 5 days a week and received high ratings. In year 2003 she started acting in the TV series "Sil Baştan" (From the Beginning). This show aired for 2 years, also with high ratings.
In 2005, she starred in the stage musical "Mucizeler Komedisi" (The Comedy of Miracles). That very year, her new album "10987654321" was released, which presented a much harder sound than her previous effort.
In 2006 she played in the Cem Yılmaz
movie "Hokkabaz" (The Trickster).
In the same year,she also played in the TV movie "Maçolar".
After this experiment,she met with a nice surprise which is a forest for her,owing to her tenth year in music sector. After a long preparation,the forest was completed and named as "Özlem Tekin-Bahar Ormanı (Özlem Tekin-Spring Forest)" by her fans.
In 2007, she played in another TV movie "Fesupanallah" and nowadays she is preparing for her new project which is a theatre play "Kim O". Özlem Tekin will share the roles with a famous Turkish thespian Metin Serezli in this project. She also supported some musician friends with her duets in this year. One was a Turkish rock musician Ozturk's "Ben Uyurken". At the end of this year, she appeared in a famous Turkish rock band Badem's "Kalpsiz" song and its video clip. This song has become so populer and one of the most listened tracks of recent years.
In 2008,she started a new TV programme in one of the most famous national music channel in Turkey, Kral TV. The programme's name is "Hiperaktif" (means a person that can not stand without any reactions) because of Özlem's character. Özlem is fully suitable for the programme format in her second TV announcer experience after "Yaz Rüzgarı". At the end of this year, she supported her friend who is a Turkish singer Mişa in his song "Dost Kalamam" with her duet. She also played in this song's video clip and this work was mostly shown in TV's in 2009.
In 2010, after a long break in her album works, she released her 6th studio album "Bana Bi'şey Olmaz". One of the old tracks, "Sil Baştan", which she wrote for TV series with the same name she appeared in, is in this album. She also recorded "Sen Anla" which was written by her and vocalized and used by a famous Turkish singer Levent Yüksel in his album before. One of the interesting work about new album is that she covered a famous Anatolian folk song "Hey Onbeşli" as "Aslan Yarim" in her musical style. The first video clip from this album was "Yatağım Boş". After a while, second video clip "Kimse Bilmez" started to appear in TV channels. Nowadays, the new album's two video clips can frequently be watched by her fans.
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, TV show host and occasional actress, primarily known for her music. Though she started out in the hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
genre, her music has progressed to incorporate different styles such as house
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
, punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and Turkish folk music
Turkish folk music
Turkish folk music combines the distinct cultural values of all civilisations that have lived in Anatolia and the Ottoman territories in Europe and Asia...
.
Life and career
ÖzlemÖzlem
Özlem is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Özlem" means "Yearning".-People:* Özlem Conker, Turkish actress* Özlem Kolat, Turkish clarinetist* Özlem Özçelik, Turkish volleyball player* Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer...
Tekin was born in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
into a Turkish-American family. Her father Talat Tekin was a prominent Turkologist
Turkology
Turkology is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative context...
at UC Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. The Tekins moved to 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...
when she was four years old. Özlem grew up in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, where she went on to study classical western music at the Hacettepe University
Hacettepe University
Hacettepe University is a major state university in Ankara, Turkey.The University has two main campuses. The first is located in the old town of Ankara and hosts the Medical Centre, and the second is the Beytepe Campus, which is 13 km from the city centre...
Music Conservatory in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, specializing in the clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
.
In 1993, she met Şebnem Ferah
Sebnem Ferah
Şebnem Ferah is a Turkish singer and song-writer. She was the head vocalist of the all-female hard rock band Volvox until 1994, after which she went on to pursue an illustrious solo career...
, who has now also become another recognized rock musician in Turkey.
While still in Volvox, she met Hakan Peker and they started working on her debut solo album in 1994. This album, Kime Ne (who cares?), was eventually released in January 1996 to widespread critical acclaim. The first single Aşk Herşeyi Affeder Mi? (Does love forgive everything?), written by Barlas Erinç
Barlas Erinç
Barlas Erinç is a Turkish musician, rock singer and song writer. He was born in Ankara, Turkey. He studied Business Administration and is a graduate of Gazi University in Ankara....
shot to the top of the charts. Other hit tracks include Duvaksız Gelin (Bride without a veil) and Herkes Şanslı Doğmuyor (Not everyone is born lucky).
Then, Özlem Tekin left Hakan Peker's record label and went to İstanbul Plak
Istanbul Plak
İstanbul Plak is one of the oldest music publishing companies of Turkey, established in 1963 and based in Unkapanı, Istanbul. Its owners are Mustafa and Mehmet Söğütoğlu; the latter is famous for having discovered the worldwide known Turkish pop star, Tarkan....
which also had acquired other popular singers like Tarkan. Her second album Öz was released in February 1998. This spawned Yol which became an enormous hit.
Laubali came out a year later to great success.
Özlem started up her own TV show on Kanal D
Kanal 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....
called Yaz Rüzgarı (Summer Wind) in 2000. This aired for 1 hour, 5 days a week and received high ratings. In year 2003 she started acting in the TV series "Sil Baştan" (From the Beginning). This show aired for 2 years, also with high ratings.
In 2005, she starred in the stage musical "Mucizeler Komedisi" (The Comedy of Miracles). That very year, her new album "10987654321" was released, which presented a much harder sound than her previous effort.
In 2006 she played in the Cem Yılmaz
Cem Yilmaz
Cem Yılmaz is a Turkish stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker, best known for his films G.O.R.A. , A.R.O.G and Yahşi Batı , who has won two Sadri Alışık awards for his roles in Organize İşler and The Magician .-Biography:While studying at the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management of...
movie "Hokkabaz" (The Trickster).
In the same year,she also played in the TV movie "Maçolar".
After this experiment,she met with a nice surprise which is a forest for her,owing to her tenth year in music sector. After a long preparation,the forest was completed and named as "Özlem Tekin-Bahar Ormanı (Özlem Tekin-Spring Forest)" by her fans.
In 2007, she played in another TV movie "Fesupanallah" and nowadays she is preparing for her new project which is a theatre play "Kim O". Özlem Tekin will share the roles with a famous Turkish thespian Metin Serezli in this project. She also supported some musician friends with her duets in this year. One was a Turkish rock musician Ozturk's "Ben Uyurken". At the end of this year, she appeared in a famous Turkish rock band Badem's "Kalpsiz" song and its video clip. This song has become so populer and one of the most listened tracks of recent years.
In 2008,she started a new TV programme in one of the most famous national music channel in Turkey, Kral TV. The programme's name is "Hiperaktif" (means a person that can not stand without any reactions) because of Özlem's character. Özlem is fully suitable for the programme format in her second TV announcer experience after "Yaz Rüzgarı". At the end of this year, she supported her friend who is a Turkish singer Mişa in his song "Dost Kalamam" with her duet. She also played in this song's video clip and this work was mostly shown in TV's in 2009.
In 2010, after a long break in her album works, she released her 6th studio album "Bana Bi'şey Olmaz". One of the old tracks, "Sil Baştan", which she wrote for TV series with the same name she appeared in, is in this album. She also recorded "Sen Anla" which was written by her and vocalized and used by a famous Turkish singer Levent Yüksel in his album before. One of the interesting work about new album is that she covered a famous Anatolian folk song "Hey Onbeşli" as "Aslan Yarim" in her musical style. The first video clip from this album was "Yatağım Boş". After a while, second video clip "Kimse Bilmez" started to appear in TV channels. Nowadays, the new album's two video clips can frequently be watched by her fans.
Discography
- Bana Bi'şey Olmaz
- Kimse Bilmez
- Yatağım Boş
- Şikayetim Var
- Sen Anla
- Yüzde Seksen
- Erkekliğime Ver
- Vur Beni
- Aslan Yarim
- Sil Baştan
- Kimse Bilmez (Acoustic)
- Değmez
- Gezegen X
- Cinayet
- Belki
- Dene
- Kaf Dağı
- Aşk Yangın
- A) Şık
- Aşinayım Firara
- Adımı Söyle
- Kimbilir
- Dağları Deldim
- Hep Yek
- Oof
- Kırıldım
- Deli Gibi
- Onun İçin
- Aşka Dair
- İki Adım
- Daa
- Laubali
- Vurma
- Biri Var
- Biberi Bol
- Bu Kalp
- Kumdan Kaleler
- Yazmamışlar
- Ve Olamadı Aşk
- Sorma
- Beni Yakan Aşkın
- Bir yaz Günü
- Bahar
- Öz
- Yol
- Saat
- Paparazzi
- Tarlalar
- Duvar
- Dünya
- Çok
- Hiç
- Aşk Her Şeyi Affeder mi
- Sebepsiz Savaş
- Duvaksız Gelin
- Yar Bana Varmadı
- Kime Ne
- Herkes Şanslı Doğmuyor
- Niye Bana Bu Ceza
- Adresler Karıştı
- Var mı Yan Bakan
- Gel Bu Yaz