Ajda Pekkan

Ayşe Ajda Pekkan (born February 12, 1946, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish pop singer and actress. Through a career spanning five decades thus far, Pekkan has released more than 20 albums and, with is the most commercially successful female Turkish music artist with the sales of over 30 million copies worldwide. Pekkan is nicknamed the "Superstar" of Turkish pop music. She got this title after her album "[album artist=ajda pekkan]SUPERSTAR" which was released in 1978. Although famed for her music, Pekkan started her career as an actress with appearances in almost 50 films.

Ayşe Ajda Pekkan (born February 12, 1946, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish pop singer and actress. Through a career spanning five decades thus far, Pekkan has released more than 20 albums and, with is the most commercially successful female Turkish music artist with the sales of over 30 million copies worldwide. Pekkan is nicknamed the "Superstar" of Turkish pop music. She got this title after her album "[album artist=ajda pekkan]SUPERSTAR" which was released in 1978.

Although famed for her music, Pekkan started her career as an actress with appearances in almost 50 films. During her music career, Pekkan has recorded songs in nine languages. Apart from Turkish, she is also fluent in English and French. With the help of her sister, Semiramis, she began singing at the popular Istanbul nightclub Çatı (Roof) in 1962.

The following year, Pekkan won a Cover Star contest sponsored by the Turkish music magazine Ses ("Voice") and was launched on a professional career. After a short movie career she started singing and she has been at the center of the Turkish musical scene since 1965. A star of both stage and screen, Pekkan's repertoire extends well beyond Turkish folk and popular music to embrace styles such as French chanson. It made her the first Turkish singer ever to perform in Olympia, Paris, France in 1976. In the course of her career, Pekkan has received countless honors, and toured internationally. 1980 marked her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'Pet'roil'.

Her albums were released in Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, France, Israel and Italy. Her album "Cool kadın" was released in June, 2006 and hit a huge success again. This was her first official album after 10 years. In 2008 Ajda's album "Aynen Öyle" including hits like "Aynen Öyle" "Flu Gibi" "Can Gidiyor" and "Stretch" was one of the most popular albums of the year. Following year, 2009, Ajda Pekkan made a single named "Resim" written and composed by Serdar Ortaç and that was a real hit of summer. Ajda Pekkan's last album was released under name "Farkın Bu" and it was the best selling album of the year 2011 in Turkey.

in early 2012, she distributed same album again but with remix versions. عایشه آژدا پکان (به ترکی: Ayşe Ajda Pekkan) (زادهٔ ۱۲ فوریهٔ ۱۹۴۶ در استانبول) یکی از خوانندگان زن موسیقی پاپ ترکیه است. او در سال ۱۹۶۲ از نخستین خوانندگانی بود که آهنگهای ترکی در سبک پاپ را اجرا کرد. او بیش از ۲۰ آلبوم ایجاد کرده و یکی از موفق‌ترین هنرمندان موزیک ترک است. وی در ۴۷ فیلم بازی کرده‌است. در سال ۱۹۶۸ آلبوم İki Yabancı وی در فهرست بالاترین‌های فروش قرار گرفت. موفقیت‌های ادامه‌دار او منجر به دعوت‌های بین‌المللی در در فستیوال‌هایی مانند فستیوال موزیک آپولونیا در ۱۹۶۸-۱۹۶۹ در آتن یونان و فستیوال ترانه‌های مدیترانه‌ای در سال ۱۹۶۹ در بارسلونای اسپانیا شد.موفقیت آهنگ‌های وی کنسرت‌های به زبان ترکی با Enrico Macias در سالن Paris Olympia در سال ۱۹۷۶ را در پی داشت.

در شناسایی لقبش آلبومی به نام سوپر استار را در سال ۱۹۷۷ بیرون داد. در همان سال در فستیوال موزیک یاماها در توکیو پایتخت ژاپن حضوری موفقیت‌آمیز داشت. افزون بر آهنگهای آلمانی و فرانسوی وی که در اوایل سالهای ۱۹۷۰ میلادی در اروپا منتشر شد، او Pour Lui را که در فرانسه بسیار موفق بود منتشر کرد. در اوج موفقیت او دومین آلبومش، سوپر استار ۲ را در ۱۹۷۹ منتشر کرد. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..