Ebru Gündeş

Ebru Gündeş
Birth name	Ebru Gündeş
Born	October 12, 1974 (1974-10-12) Istanbul, Turkey
Genres	Fantezi Arabesque music Pop-Folk
Occupations	Singer TV Show Host Actress
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Istanbul Plak Erol Köse

Ebru Gündeş (Turkish pronunciation: [ebˈɾu ɟynˈdeʃ]; born 12 October 1974, İstanbul) is a Turkish pop-folk singer, actress, and television personality.

Early life

Ebru Gündeş went to primary school in Ankara. Moving back to İstanbul with her family afterwards, she had to discontinue her education due to financial hardship. She also spent a fair amount of her life in Izmir.

The quality of her voice was discovered at an early age when one of her relatives took her to Neşe Demirkat, a partner of Raks Neşe Müzik a record label in Turkey. Neşe Demirkat was impressed with her voice and introduced her to music producers Koral Sarıtaş and Selçuk Tekay.

Career

Ebru Gündeş sings the kind of desperately tragic arabesk love songs that are the core of Turkish popular music. Besides Turkey, she is especially popular in Iran where she was voted one of the favourite singers.^{[citation needed]}

Her debut album, Tanrı Misafiri, was released in 1992. It proved to be a massive success and sold 1,250,000 copies. At this stage she was a very sweet and innocent-looking girl, slim, dressed in white and with an attractive way of raising one eyebrow. She was on billboards all over Istanbul. Coming as she did from one of Istanbul's less affluent districts, with a rough manner and speaking voice in contrast to her beautiful singing voice, she garnered lots of public support. Her subsequent albums have been hugely successful and are listed below.

Stardom has taken its toll on her health. She suffered from a brain haemorrhage in December 1999 while recording the album Dön Ne Olur, which resulted in two very serious operations. She spent a lot of time away from the public eye, recuperating, and eventually she returned to full health. Dön Ne Olur was one of the best-selling albums ever in Turkey. In November 2001 she released the album Ahdım Olsun. This album embodied the pain of the experience she endured from December 1999 to November 2001. It also offered a clear story line for the events that took place in her life that year.

Television career

Ebru Gündeş has made hundreds of television appearances in Turkey as a singer and recently as an actress in a situation comedy İmkansız Aşk (Impossible Love). She was also the host of her Mega Show, one of the most-watched television shows in Turkey. Every week Ebru was joined by a variety of other Turkish singers, most notably her long-time friends Serdar Ortaç and İbrahim Tatlıses. The show featured Ebru singing her own songs, singing classic songs and singing duets with other singers. She then appeared in the hugely popular singing contest Popstar Alaturka as a guest judge along with Turkey's most popular singer the diva Bülent Ersoy, Orhan Gencebay and Armagan Çaglayan. Just before leaving Popstar Alaturka because of her relationship problems with the show's host she released her new album Evet (Yes).^{[citation needed]}

Ebru Gundes has released her new album "BEYAZ" meaning white. Her New album has been an amazing success as all of her previous albums. Songs from Ebru Gundes "Beyaz" 1. Ağlamayacağım 2. Vatan 3. Ferman 4. Beyaz 5. Hayrandım 6. Bir Gün Olacak 7. Yazık 8. Cumartesi 9. Hiçbir Zaman 10. Aldırma Deli Gönül 11. Severek Öleceğim 12. Kime Ne'

Personal life

Ebru has been married 3 times. She is currently married to Reza Zarrab a very successful Iranian Azarbaijani businessman. Her last wedding was a very small ceremony and no photos have been published yet unlike her other weddings. She has said in one interview that since her brain haemorrhage she looks at life and lives her life very differently. Since then she also sometimes suffers from panic attacks with regards to her health for which she is under treatment for. In late March 2011 Ebru announced that she is expecting her first child. Ebru Gundes gave birth to a daughter called Alara on the 15th of October 2011 at the Florence Nightingale Hospital. Alara, who was born at 3kg and 49 cm.

Discography

• Tanrı Misafiri (God's Guest) 1992
• Tatlı Bela (Sweet Curse) 1994
• Ben Daha Büyümedim (I Haven't Grown Up Yet) 1995
• Kurtlar Sofrası (In the Company of Wolves) 1996
• Sen Allah’ın Bir Lütfusun (You Are a Gift of Allah) 1998
• Dön Ne Olur (What Does It Matter, Come Back) 2000
• Klasikler (Classics) 2000
• Hayat, Kadere Inat Seni Sil Baştan Yaşayacağım... Ahdım Olsun (It’s my vow that, life, stubborn destiny I will be reunited with you once more in my years) 2001
• Şahane (Great) 2003; has sold over 300,000 units.
• Bize de Bu Yakışır (This is the Right Way for Us) 2004; has sold more than 300,000 units.
• Kaçak (Fugitive) 2006
• Evet (Yes) 2008
• "Evet" (Yes - Single ) 2009
• Ağlamayacağım (I will not cry-single) 2011

* Beyaz - (White) - 2011 (It was released on February 11)

• 1. Ağlamayacağım
• 2. Vatan
• 3. Ferman
• 4. Beyaz
• 5. Hayrandım
• 6. Bir Gün Olacak
• 7. Yazık
• 8. Cumartesi
• 9. Hiçbir Zaman
• 10. Aldırma Deli Gönül
• 11. Severek Öleceğim
• 12. Kime Ne

References

http://www.ensonhaber.com/ebru-gundes-dogum-yapti-2011-10-15.html

External links

• Ebru Gündeş official website [1]
• Ebru Gündeş Facebook official site [2]