Ceylan Ertem

Biography

Ceylan Ertem, sometimes stylized as Ceyl'an Ertem (born 26 December 1980) is a Turkish singer-songwriter.

Early life and career

Ceylan Ertem started her musical career by joining the Adapazarı Municipality’s children choir. She started learning how to play piano in 1995 and moved to Istanbul in 1999 to continue her musical education. There she attended Müjdat Gezen's Art Academy and studied Western Music for 2 years. Then she enrolled in the Musicology department of Yıldız Technical University for her bachelor degree.
In 2000, she formed the band Anima with Tuncay Korkmaz. Anima, with its all members studying in the same faculty at the YTU, released their first and only album Animasal in 2006. In 2008, she started producing the radio show ŞubidaP on Açık Radyo, the show aired for 26 weeks.

International work

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.

Albums

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, Amansız Gücenik in 2014, and cover album YUH! in 2015. In 2016, she was invited to work on the project which was attributed to Zülfü Livaneli, on which she covered Kız Cocuğu. She released her 4th studio album Yine de Amin in February 2017.