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Kalben
Person · female · Turkey · İskenderun · born 1986
Turkish musician (born 1986)
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Also known as Kalben Sağdıç
Timeline
1980s
Biography
Biography
Kalben Sağdıç (born 17 January 1986), known mononymously as Kalben, is a Turkish singer-songwriter.
Life and career
Kalben, who started to become interested in music by playing her mother's keyboard at the age of 8, had her first guitar at the age of 14. She has an older half-brother.
She graduated from Bilkent University, Department of International Relations, in 2007, with a scholarship. After trying to work in various fields, she started studying for her master's degree in Media Design and Cultural Studies at the same university in 2008 and graduated in 2011. She then moved to Istanbul to find a job. She started to work as a brand manager at Universal Pictures. Afterwards, she was busy with various works such as scriptwriting, editing, project managing, and translating.
She rarely continued to play music and held occasional concerts in Ankara and Istanbul. Her "Sadece" video, which was published in October 2014 on Sofar Sounds, became among the most watched Sofar videos in a short time.
She started her music career after publishing a series of children's novels named Lulu. She had a minor role in the series Aşk Kaç Beden Giyer?. Her debut album, Kalben, was released in February 2016 under the label DMC. It was followed by Sonsuza Kadar in 2017. Kalben released her third studio album, Kalp Hanım, on 20 March 2020 on all digital music platforms.
Studio albums
Kalben (2016)
Sonsuza Kadar (2017)
Kalp Hanım (2020)
Eski Yeniler (2021)
Eski Dünyanın Yangını (2022)
Kayıp Aşıklar Ülkesi (2026)
Singles
"Geri Dönme" (with Cem Adrian) (2018)
"Yaşamak Var Ya" (2018)
"Kuşlar" (2018)
"Günaydın" (2019)
"Perişahı'nın Kızı" (2020)
"Kahveyi Kavururlar" (2020)
"Yüksek Yüksek Tepeler" (2021)
"Robot Kozmonot" (ft. Teoman) (2021)
"Şanssız Mücadeleci" (2021)
"Ne Güzel Yerlerin Var" (2021)
"Robot Kozmonot (Karakter Remix)" (2021)
"Bilmiyor İçim" (2021)
"Çünkü Başka Sen Yok" (2021)
"Yağmurun Elleri" (Yeni Türkü Zamansız) (2022)
"Taksi (Disco Tarantula Remix)" (2022)
"Her Yerde Kar Var" (Fecri Ebcioğlu 100 Yıllık Şarkılar) (2023)
"Oregon (Original Soundtrack)" (2023)
"Çek (Emre Gören Remix)" (2023)
"Hep Sonradan" (with Grogi) (2024)
"Hatıraların Gölgesi" (2024)
"İçimde Sen" (2024)
"Akşamlarda" (2024)
"Buluş Benimle" (2024)
"İstanbul'da Değilim" (2025)
"Kandırma" (2025)
"Kasım Yağmurları" (2025)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Kalben head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalbenbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalben
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Turkish musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Onur · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q27897839 · MusicBrainz: f28f190a-7a87-49e8-8822-8a5dfaa031ca
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