Biography of Tarkan. Famous Turkish singer

Turkish singer Tarkan is well-known to modern lovers of pop music. His songs perfectly fit and are easily remembered, and a bright, charismatic appearance has broken more than one million women's hearts in Turkey and in other countries.

Childhood star

Tarkan is the abbreviated name of the singer. The full sounds like Husametin Tarkan Tevetoglu, where Tevetoglu is a family name, and Husamethin is the name given at birth. It means "sharp sword" in Turkish.

The future showman was born on October 17, 1972 in the German city of Alzey, where his parents emigrated from Turkey, fleeing the economic crisis that erupted in his homeland. The family was a large family - in addition to his siblings and sisters, Tarkan has three more composite ones - from his mother's first marriage.

With the birth of one of the most famous Turks of our time, several family legends are associated. The first says that during pregnancy, Tarkan's mother fell into a coma after a terrible accident. Doctors insisted on an artificial miscarriage, predicting the child serious health problems. But the father of the future king of music in the genre of dance-pop dreamed of a newborn boy with a star in his forehead. And left the baby. The dream was prophetic. A month after the traffic accident, the woman left the coma, and after a while she gave birth to a perfectly healthy child.

According to the second legend, nurses at the hospital told Tarkan's mother that her son would necessarily be a singer-he was crying very loudly. So it happened.

True, the fact that his vocation is music, Tarkan did not understand right away. For a long time he dreamed of becoming a veterinarian or an ecologist. But, noticing his son's vocal abilities, his parents gave him to a music school. At that time, the boy was thirteen years old, and the family had already moved back to Turkey, recovering somewhat from the economic upheavals.

Student years

After leaving school, Tarkan almost made the biggest mistake of his life, trying to enter an engineer at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. But, fortunately, the exam turned out to be too young for a young man, and then Tarkan's biography gets in the right direction. The guy returns to Cznarcik, and already in 1990 he became a student of the Istanbul Music Academy, which completely subdued him.

Dreaming one day to conquer this beautiful city, Tarkan is studying diligently, and in order to earn a living he earns money by singing in metropolitan restaurants. Perhaps, that's how Husametin Tevetoglu would continue to "burn" in restaurants until the end of his life, and the world would never have heard the name of Tarkan, whose songs are today at everyone's ears ... But the incident intervened.

First loud success

Once a student of the music academy went to visit his brother in Germany. And there he happened to meet a certain Mehmet Soyetoulu, who works in a well-known Turkish recording studio.

Hearing Tarkan singing, the new acquaintance was amazed by his vocal data and offered his help in promotion. Mehmet assured the future singer that he had a great future, and if fate gives such a chance, they should definitely take advantage.

A young and ambitious guy, dreaming to conquer at least Turkey, naturally accepted the proposal, and in 1992 he released his first album "Again without you" (Yine Sensiz). The debut work was quite a big success, spreading out in a circulation of seven hundred thousand copies. The Turkish youth, tired of old-fashioned singers, accepted the cheers of a man named Tarkan. His songs have gained popularity.

Two years later, in the ninety-fourth, Tarkan's second album was released, which was sold almost three times better than the first. Particularly fell in the soul of listeners songs written by Sezen Aksu, with which the singer started a fruitful collaboration. Among her compositions there was more than once sung by domestic stars known throughout the world Şıkıdım.

Europe and the USA

Further, Tarkan's biography takes us outside of Turkey. Lightning conquered his native country, the young handsome goes to his first overseas tour. And as a debut site was chosen, of course, Germany.

Quite unexpectedly for himself, and for his producer, the Turkish singer takes leading places in the German charts before the tour begins. And this despite the fact that no song in English, and even more so in German, in the program Tarkan was not.

Concerts in Germany are held with great success, and the young star decides on Europe not to stop. In the same 1994, Tarkan flies to the United States, where he studies in Baruch College in New York and actively learns English, planning to sing soon on it.

In the states, Tarkan has a new producer - Ahmet Ertegan, who tried to untwist a promising Turk in the open spaces of the New World. But the matter progressed with great difficulty. Spoiled American public was not particularly interested in Turkish motives, which can not be said about the old European woman. Very quickly the popularity of Tarkan went beyond Germany, and the third album Ölürüm Sana (1997) diverges by a circulation of three and a half million copies and leads to the prestigious European award World Music Awards. The singer is called the prince of Turkish music, his songs are recognized by the first three notes.

But in the United States Tarkan, whose albums in this country bought up much worse, felt free and could rest from the costs of glory. That's why the singer buys an apartment in Manhattan and spends time free from the tour.

Problems at home

The end of the nineties was marked for the star not only by tremendous success, but also by serious problems. Tarkana arrived in time to join the army, and neither fame nor money could save him from this. The celebrity was forced to hide from the military commissariat abroad, and the Turkish authorities even wanted to deprive the "deviator" of citizenship.

The problem was resolved in the most unexpected way. After the terrible earthquake that struck Turkey in 1999, a law was passed in the country, according to which the benefactors who contributed sixteen thousand dollars to the fund of victims of the disaster were reduced to twenty-eight days in the army . And, of course, Tarkan did not fail to use this law. After paying the fee and marking the month, he said goodbye to military service forever.

Russia

Then, at the finish of the twentieth century, Tarkan's creative biography is enriched by the conquest of the Russian public. Songs of the charismatic Turk are played in discos all over the country, they occupy the tops of the charts.

Acquainted with Tarkan in absentia, the Russians were happy to see him at concerts in their cities. And even recognized the "Song of the Year" song Dudu, which also brought the artist the award "100-pood hit".

Early 2000's

It should be noted that the success of the fans of the hot Turkish guy brings not only music. Tarkan in 2001 becomes the face of "Pepsi" in his homeland, and he is adored by football fans, for whom, after the song Bir Ölürüz Yolunda, he became the mascot of the Turkish national team.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the star spends a lot of time in America, where she performs a plastic surgery and lights up the idea of starting her own business. So the biography of Tarkan is supplemented by an interesting and rather unexpected point - the launch of the perfume line "Tarkan". Fans richer with pleasure buy up toilet water named after an idol for $ 80. And those who are more victorious, are compelled to be content with shower gel for thirty bucks.

But also about the main activity does not forget the dazzling Tarkan. The albums of 2001 Karma and Dudu 2003 have a great success in their homeland and in Europe. They are very different from what was written down before, but it goes to the singer for good. Like his new look: long hair, tight jeans, unbuttoned shirts ... Tarkan becomes the legislator of youth fashion in her homeland.

English-speaking attempt

The dream to release an English-language album appeared at Tarkan on his very first visit to America. For a long time, the plans remained unrealized, and in 2006 a CD called Come Closer finally comes out. It consists of fifteen compositions, and none of them, alas, did not become a hundred percent hit. We can say that Tarkan's English-language attempt failed. Sales did not exceed the mark of even one hundred thousand copies. Therefore, the next record of Metamorfoz 2007 singer was again completely Turkish. And the fans forgave the idol.

Further work of Metamorfoz Remixes, Adımı Kalbine Yaz only consolidated the success. Tarkan to this day remains the prince of Turkish pop music, giving out on the mountain one hit after another. Among the most popular works of recent years are his compositions: Yemin Ettim, Kuzu Kuzu, Hop De and many others.

Scandals

The biography of celebrities, as a rule, does not do without scandals. And Tarkan in this regard is no exception. The first loud scandal hit the head of the singer's fans after he wrote the book "Tarkan: Anatomy of the Star." It was in the early 2000's. Critics then accused the author of plagiarism.

And the second resonant situation was triggered by the release of a video clip for the song Hüp. The scenes that were present in the video, a part of the Turkish public considered pornographic.

Gossip

Rumors are also common in the life of stars. About Tarkan what they just do not say! But the most persistent talk goes around the unconventional orientation of the singer, as well as around his addiction to drugs.

Both the first and second Tarkan denies in his interviews. Although there was his biography incident when during a massive raid by the Turkish police he was "caught" along with other famous figures in a private villa and charged with drug use and possession. True, a couple of days later the singer was released. And it is still unknown whether the accusation was a mistake of the police or Tarkan simply managed to pay off the law enforcement agencies.

Personal life

As for the private life of the prince of Turkish pop music, then, to the great regret of the fans, the 44-year-old Tarkan married not so long ago. The chosen one was Pynar Dilek - his devoted fan, whom he met at one of the concerts in Germany. The wedding ceremony was organized on the territory of the singer's own villa.

Before that, he had many girls. The most famous novel was the relationship with Bilge Ozturk, which the couple did not hide from anyone, even exposed them on display. They lasted six years, but in 2008 they ended in a break, and did not lead to marriage.

Today Tarkan is a happy new husband. He has everything: beauty, love, talent, world fame, money, an apartment in Manhattan worth five million dollars, a ranch near Istanbul with a gorgeous garden ...