Artist Profile

Tarkan

Tarkan Tevetoğlu (born October 17, 1972), popularly known as Tarkan, is an award-winning pop and World Music singer in Turkey. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 15 million albums sold. He also produces music through his company HITT Music, which he established in 1997. Noted for his live stage performances, Tarkan's effect on Turkey has been compared by the Washington Post as analogous to Elvis in America circa 1957; Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegün described him as one of the best live performers he had ever seen.

Tarkan is one of a few European singers that has managed to span chart success over three continents without singing in English. Often cited as the "Turkish Prince of Pop",[3] he has charted in Russia, Europe and in the Americas with the song "Şımarık" (Spoilt/Kiss Kiss/Chanson Du Bisou/Besos). As a result of its widespread success, Tarkan was listed by Rhapsody as a key artist in the history of European pop music, with his signature song as a keystone track that moved the genre forward.[4]

Immediately recognizable with the sound of Tarkan kissing on the track, "Şımarık" was reincarnated in English as "Kiss Kiss" by Stella Soleil and later Holly Valance, after the composer Sezen Aksu sold the music rights, and has been covered by various artists across the world in various languages. Another successful Aksu collaboration was the hit single "Şıkıdım" Tarkan's lastest studio album Metamorfoz was released on 25 December, 2007 in Turkey and has sold more than 300 000 copies since its release.

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