Ceylan Ertem

Ceylan Ertem (born 26 December 1980) is Turkish singer-songwriter. Ceylan Ertem started her music career by joining the Akhisar Municipality's children choir. She learned how to play piano in 1995 back in her hometown. In 1999, she moved to Istanbul to continue with her musical education. In Istanbul, she attended Mujdat Gezen Art Academy and studied Western Music for 2 years. In 2000, she and Tuncay Korkmaz started the band Anima. Anima released their first and only album Animasal in 2006. However, that album wasn't a success after all. In 2008, she had started the project SubidaP which was on the radio for 26 weeks. In 2008, she recorded with Philipp Gropper and Wanja Slavin in Berlin for the project "Octophone". Later, she had many concerts in Berlin as well. She worked with other European bands such as "United Fools" of France and "Barana" of Netherlands. In 2010, she released her first solo album. The album was called Soluk. She recorded the whole album with 40 musicians. She continued with her solo career with Ütopyalar Güzeldir in 2012, Amansiz Gücenik in 2014, and cover album YUH! in 2015. In 2016, she was invited to work on the project which is attributed to Zülfü Livaneli, which she covered Kiz Cocugu. She released her 4th studio album Yine de Amin in February 2017.