Gülseren

Gülseren Yıldırım

Gülseren , real name Gülseren Yıldırım (* 1973 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish-French singer and Turkish teacher.

Gülseren had lived in Paris since she was seven and studied at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales .

She gained stage experience since 1997 through regular appearances as a singer on the stage of the Paris jazz club Les Trois Mailletz .

After Gülseren's “debut album” in 2001, Gülseren gained notoriety through appearing with the Shaman dance group as a representative of Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev , Ukraine in 2005 with the ethno-pop title Rimi rimi ley . The selection of the title by a jury - after two very successful Turkish ESC participations with Sertab Erener and Athena - caused severe criticism in Turkey. The station responsible for the ESC in Turkey, TRT, responded to the criticism by rearranging the title . The new arrangement was reminiscent of a Bollywood soundtrack and was much better received by the audience than the original version from the preliminary round. With 92 points, the title took 13th place out of 24 finalists.

Discography

• 2005: Rimi rimi ley (single)

Web links

Commons : Gülseren  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gülseren in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Turkey: Gülseren at eurovision.de
• Gülseren at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ now lives in Istanbul ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Biography of Gülseren at the IMDb
3. ↑ Music: Erdinç Tunç Text: Göksan Arman