Tarkan short biography
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Tarkan: Iconic Turkish pop star with global fame
While the Turkish audience has always been accustomed to listening to songs by foreign artists, Turkish singers rarely got the opportunity to sing for foreign audiences. Turkish singers who achieved international fame have generally been popular among nations that share the same historical background with Turkey. For instance, Ibrahim Tatlıses is still very popular in the Middle East in a variety of countries from Iran to Israel. Despite their political confrontation, both nations have always loved the energetic romance in Tatlıses songs. Similarly, Müslüm Gürses' music is a regular favorite among Arabs, while Turkey’s neighboring countries, including Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia and Armenia, have sung the same folk songs as the Turks for centuries.
The first Turkish pop singer to be known abroad would be Tarkan, who began his career in the early 1990s and became a global pop star throughout the years. Tarkan’s “Şımarık” song charted both in Europe and in the Americas with translated titles like “Spoilt,” “Kiss Kiss,” “Chanson du Bisou” and “Besos.” The “Kiss Kiss” version performed by Holly Valance hit number one on the U.K. charts. The song has many other versions and remixes done by various performers belonging to differ
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As a student, Tarkan was left in Istanbul without any money. To earn his living, he looked for part-time job as a salesperson and then he began to sing in bars and nightclubs. "It was terrible,- he remembers.- I was singing for people who were just eating and drinking and paid absolutely no attention to music". Anyway, it was not to last for a long time. After his friend Alpay Aydyn presented some of his records to producer Mehmet Sogutoglu, Tarkan's life changed completely, Sogutoglu was rather young. He accepted all the risks and decided to support an unknown singer. But no one of them did not expect exactly what happened. Tarkan's first album "Yine sensiz" and single "Kil oldum" made him popular in a couple days. Suddenly all the Turkey knew his name...
This success was enforced by the next album, "Olurum Sana", with the "Simarik" single, written by Tarkan and Sezen Aksu, the Turkish female pop-star. But at this time Tarkan was so popular that his life turned out to be a nightmare. Fotographers followed him everywhere, his private life suddenly became everybody's concern. He was criticized a lot for hiring a bodyguard, his performance seemed a challenge to concervative people; his unwillingness to answer the curious questions was thought to be avowal of guilt...
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