Tarkan was born on 17th October 1972 in Alzey, Germany; as the fifth of his six brother and his sisters. His passion for music started when he was only three years old.

When he came back to Turkey for the 6th grade, at fourteen years of age, his big interest in music led him towards taking “Turkish Classical Music” classes besides the regular high school education.

During his education in the Üsküdar Musical Association between 1990 and 1992, he had the opportunity to work with highly respected Turkish composers, who encouraged him to join the music world. After graduating from high school and receiving the results of the university exam, he took the decision to go back to Germany.

However, right at this time, his destiny has changed majorly when he met Mehmet Sögüto?lu and Tarkan’s first album, “Yine Sensiz” (1993) which founded his big-time entry to the professional music world, was produced/released by Istanbul Plak. Initially, he met his fans through his concerts and established a strong base in the music market by selling 700 thousand albums, in a very short time.

During the preparation process of his second album, Tarkan met Sezen Aksu, one of the most important/prestigious voices of Turkey. The song “?ykydym” was included in his second album as a result of this, these two singers join together.

Tarkan performed a total of 74 concerts in Turkey and in Europe with his second album “Aacayipsin” which was released in 1995. 25 of these concerts, all performed in stadiums, formed the biggest sponsored national tour until that day, whereby Tarkan has reached to 750.000 people in different cities in Turkey. As a result of all these firsts, Tarkan has reached another milestone and his album sold nearly 2.5 million.

Afterwards he went to New York to study the language. Over that period, Tarkan met Ahmet Ertegün and started to work on new projects with him and Atlantic Records. Between 1994 and 1997, he made 3 big Europe tours consisting of a total of

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