“I would turn off the lights, go out on the balcony, and look down in the street to see people gathering to listen to me.”
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Sezen Aksu
Sezen Aksu is a Turkish singer, songwriter and producer. She is one of the most successful Turkish singers, having sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Her nicknames include the "Queen of Turkish Pop" and "Minik Serçe".
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entertainment · Turkish pop singer, songwriter, and producer · singer · composer · lyricist · songwriter · actor · record producer · recording artist · musician · also Sezen Aksu, Queen of Turkish Pop, Fatma Sezen Yıldırım, Sezen Seley, Aksu
Born 13 July 1954 · Q298139
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2026· 15 entries
“Once I realized I had this gift, and my mother and father were opposing this, I used to wait until they went to the movies or went out,”
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“My music is like Turkey, like Anatolia,”
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“'They could not find a place for my child anywhere in the whole world...' Can any sentence be so concise, deep and painful? This sentence can only come from and fall out of a mother's or a father's mouth. As long as my breath is sufficient enough, I will take a stand against this discrimination, this speciesism, this cruelty that ignores and destroys those who are not like them; I'll take the side of those whose right to live was blocked. With all my heart and hope...”
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Haberler.com: Hande Yener’den İstanbul Festivali’nde 50 Kişilik Senfoni Orkestrası Eşliğinde Sezen Aksu Şarkıları
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Aşk Dansı [Official Video]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu - Aşk Dansı”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Aşk Dansı [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Müstahak [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Gel Kıyma [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Canım Olmaz ki [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Zehir [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Kiraz Mevsimi [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Sizli Bizli [Official Audio]”.
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Published video “Sezen Aksu – Mış Gibi [Official Audio]”.
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2025· 2 entries
Released album “Paşa Gönül Şarkıları”.
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Onedio: Sezen Aksu ve Onno Tunç'un Detaylarını Duyunca Yüreğinizi Dağlayacak Hazin Sonlu Aşk Hikayesi!
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2022· 4 entries
Haber7: Sezen Aksu kimdir? Sezen Aksu hayatı hakkında bilinmeyenler...
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Euro News: Sezen Aksu’ya tepkiler: Hz. Adem ve Hz. Havva'ya yönelik ifadeler hakkında kim ne dedi?
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BBC: Sezen Aksu'nun 'Beni öldüremezsin; sesim, sazım, sözüm var benim' dediği şarkısı dünya dillerine çevrildi
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haberler.com: Sezen Aksu gerçek adı nedir? Sezen Aksu kimdir? Sezen Aksu kaç yaşında, nereli, mesleği ne? Sezen Aksu hayatı ve biyografisi!
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2021· 1 entry
Hürriyet: Sezen Aksu doğum gününde TT listesinde... Türk müziğinin efsane ismi Sezen Aksu 67 yaşında!
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Demo 2”.
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2019· 5 entries
Kadir: Sezen Aksu'nun babası kimdir kaç yaşında neden öldü?
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Released album “Türkiye Şarkıları”.
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İnternet Haber: Sezen Aksu Kimdir?
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In 2019, Aksu and Tilbe reconciled and reunited as friends, bringing an end to their rivalry.
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Aksu and Tilbe reconciled and reunited as friends, bringing an end to their rivalry
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “DEMO”.
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Sporx: Yıldız Tilbe ve Sezen Aksu neden küsmüştü, neden kavga etmişti? Sezen ile barıştılar
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Biraz Pop Biraz Sezen Remix”.
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Released album “Biraz Pop Biraz Sezen”.
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays Sezen Aksu”.
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Released album “Bahane (Remixes)”.
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“Each ending is a new beginning. I will continue to produce [music], but I”
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2014· 1 entry
Again paid tribute to the young people who took part in the protests with her new single "Yeni ve Yeni Kalanlar"
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2013· 4 entries
In 2013, Aksu performed with transsexual actress Ayta Sözeri on stage, and later a huge rainbow flag symbolizing the LGBT movement was waved in the air, the first time that a Turkish artist had publicly shown support for LGBT on stage.
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Said: "This is the first youth revolution in the world
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Aksu performed with transsexual actress Ayta Sözeri on stage, and later a huge rainbow flag symbolizing the LGBT movement was waved in the air, the first time that a Turkish artist had publicly shown support for LGBT on
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Published a statement on her official website in support of the SPOD (Social Policy Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association) on its first anniversary
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2012· 2 entries
In 2012, Aksu wrote the song "Tanrının Gözyaşları" (Tears of God) in memory of soldiers who had died during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict.
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Aksu wrote the song "Tanrının Gözyaşları" (Tears of God) in memory of soldiers who had died during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict
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2011· 4 entries
Released album “Öptüm Remix”.
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Released album “Öptüm”.
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“We have exceeded the [time] limits, the Americans have also set a record of patience, New Jersey will be like this tonight, I will not leave this scene until I make all of you happy”
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Aksu began producing music again and released the studio album Öptüm
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2010· 2 entries
NPR named her as one of the "50 Great Voices" of the world
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Aksu was on the "50 Great Sounds" list set by the American NPR radio
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2009· 4 entries
Released album “Yürüyorum Düş Bahçeleri’nde…”.
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Released album “Kaybolmayan Yıllar”.
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Released her album Yürüyorum Düş Bahçelerinde
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Supported Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's democratic initiative and the settlement process in Turkey
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2008· 3 entries
Released album “Deniz Yıldızı”.
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Aksu released her album called Deniz Yıldızı through Starfish Records
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Supported LGBT association Lambdaistanbul, which was closed by a court decision based on "the fact that it is contrary to general morality"
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2006· 1 entry
Aksu published a book called Eksik Şiir, a collection of 197 songs written by her between 1975-2006
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Bahane”.
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Was featured in Fatih Akın's documentary film Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul with a performance of the song "İstanbul Hatırası"
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Yaz Bitmeden”.
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2002· 2 entries
Alongside Ajda Pekkan and Seyyal Taner, Aksu was named as one of the gay icons admired by the Turkish LGBT people in the book Eşcinsel Erkekler by Murat Hocaoğlu
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Released album “Şarkı Söylemek Lazım”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Klasikleri”.
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Released album “Deliveren”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Adı Bende Saklı”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released Düğün ve Cenaze, this time collaborating with Goran Bregović
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Released album “Düğün ve Cenaze”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Düş Bahçeleri”.
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Released Düş Bahçeleri as a tribute to Tunç, who died that same year tragically when his private plane crashed
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Işık Doğudan Yükselir ‘Ex oriente lux’”.
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And 2005, Aksu and Tilbe were responding by diss tracks that referred with their relationship issues with Hepari
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Aksu branched out with the experimental album Işık Doğudan Yükselir, drawing both on western classical and regional Turkish musical traditions
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From her album Işık Doğudan Yükselir(Light Rises from the East)
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1994· 1 entry
However Aksu's friendship with Hepari got constrained due to production and schedule issues also her rival Yıldız Tilbe who got reportedly been in a feud towards Aksu resulting to production sessions with Hepari had been
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Deli Kızın Türküsü”.
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Was also short-lived and ended in divorce
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Gülümse”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Sezen Aksu Söylüyor”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Sezen Aksu ’88”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Git...”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Sen Ağlama”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Firuze”.
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1981· 2 entries
On 10 July 1981, Sezen Aksu married Sinan Özer while being pregnant with their child.
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Released album “Ağlamak Güzeldir”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “Sevgilerimle”.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Serçe”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Allahaısmarladık”.
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1976· 1 entry
Sezen Aksu won the "Promising Female Artist of the Year" award
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1975· 2 entries
Under the name of "Sezen Seley"
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And has been reinforced by her patronage of and collaboration with many other musicians, including Yonca Evcimik, Sertab Erener, Şebnem Ferah, Aşkın Nur Yengi, Hande Yener, Yıldız Tilbe, Işın Karaca, Seden Gürel, Harun K
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-07-13.
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