Sertab Erener

Sertab Erener (June 2014)

Sertab Erener (born December 4, 1964 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish singer and one of the most successful artists of Turkish pop music .

biography

childhood

Sertab was a thin girl in her childhood. She fell ill with colon catarrh at the age of eleven and had to be hospitalized several times. To distract her from her illness , her mother tried to get Sertab interested in playing the piano . She received lessons and from this developed a passion for music.

youth

Sertab began her vocal training at the grammar school in the choir of Işık Lisesi and continued it at the State Conservatory of İstanbul ( İstanbul Belediye Konservatuvarı ). With her powerful voice, she trained as a soprano in six years .

Career

After her training, Sertab performed in the most prestigious clubs in İstanbul and gradually won over the audience. Sezen Aksu became aware of her at the end of the 1980s and has accompanied her career ever since. Sertab became better known through joint appearances and released her first album Sakin Ol in 1992 . The compositions and lyrics for most of the songs on the album were written by Aksus. Together they sold 950,000 copies of Sakin Ol . Fahir Atakoğlu composed for Sertab's next album Lâ'l (1994). Like the following album, Sertab Gibi (1996), Lâ'l was sold around 1.5 million times.

Sertab, now only represented in the pop music camp, pushed in a performance with José Carreras , who confirmed her classical singing skills. After her fourth album, Sertab (1999), her most successful to date , she appeared with Ricky Martin and released the single Aşk with the Greek singer Mando .

Erener at the opening event of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

On May 24, 2003, Sertab won the 48th Eurovision Song Contest in Riga for Turkey with 167 points and achieved recognition throughout Europe. Her winning song Everyway That I Can (Turkish version: Sen üzülme diye ) became a European hit. In Greece , Sweden , Turkey and the Eastern European countries the song was number 1 for weeks, in Belgium , the Netherlands , Austria and Spain the song became a top 10 hit and in Germany and Switzerland it was among the first 20 places on the sales charts . The song managed to climb to number 17 in the Airplay World Official Top 100 and became one of the most commercially successful winners of the Eurovision Song Contest in the 21st century. Encouraged by the international success, Sertab released the English-language album No Boundaries in 2004 , but it flopped.

In 2005 she contributed a cover version of Madonna's Music to the soundtrack for the documentary Crossing The Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul by Fatih Akın . On December 6, 2008, Sertab released her first concert DVD called Otobiyografi Istanbul Konseri to mark her 15th stage anniversary .

On June 9, 2009 her second English-language album Painted on Water was released in collaboration with Demir Demirkan .

Private

Sertab Erener is vegan , she also supports this approach to life.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Remarks
1992	Sakin ol!	First published: July 28, 1992; Sales: 750,000
1994	Lâ'l	First published: October 14, 1994; Sales: 650,000
1997	Sertab Gibi	First published: February 28, 1997; Sales: 150,000
1999	Sertab Erener	First published: March 24, 1999; Sales: 430,000
2001	Turuncu	First published: May 25, 2001; Sales: 260,000
2003	No boundaries	First release: January 19, 2003 (international album)
2005	Aşk Ölmez	First published: April 25, 2005; Sales: 160,000
2010	Rengârenk	First published: June 7, 2010; Sales: 140,000
2012	Ey Şûh-i Sertab	First published: April 12, 2012; Sales: 80,000
2013	Sade	First published: April 12, 2013; Sales: 50,000
2016	Kırık Kalpler Albümü	First published: June 3, 2016
2020	Ben Yaşarım	First published: June 12, 2020

more publishments

year	title	Remarks
2000	Bu Yaz	First publication: 2000; EP
2000	Sertab	First publication: 2000; compilation
2007	The Best of - En İyiler	First published: March 15, 2007; compilation
2007	Sertab Goes To The Club	First published: May 14, 2007; Remix album
2008	Otobiyografi: 15th Sanat Yılı Konseri	First published: December 6, 2008; Video album
2009	Painted on water	First published: October 8th, 2009 collaboration with Demir Demirkan
2010	Love	First published: March 4th, 2010 Collaboration with Demir Demirkan
2012	Senin Mutluluğun Benim Doğum Günüm	First publication: 2012; EP

Chart placements

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	title	DE	AT	CH	UK	SE	Remarks
2003	Everyway That I Can No Boundaries	DE12 (13 weeks) DE	AT10 (13 weeks) AT	CH17 (13 weeks) CH	UK72 (3 weeks) UK	SE1 (20 weeks) SE	First published: April 23, 2003
2003	Here I Am No Boundaries	-	-	CH64 (3 weeks) CH	-	SE58 (1 week) SE	First published: October 6, 2003