Şebnem Paker (born 20 July 1977) is a Turkish guitarist, singer and

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.Şebnem Paker Kimdir?
in Turkish (Last accessed 12 April 2012).

Biography

She attended the Department of Classical Guitar at Istanbul University State Conservatory between 1992 and 1996. Later, she studied singing at

Marmara University Marmara University ( Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a public university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is named after the Sea of Marmara and was founded as a university in 1982. However, it was created in 1883 under the name of ''H ...

Music Department. Paker represented

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in the

Eurovision Song Contest 1996 The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 May 1996 at the in Oslo, Norway. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (NRK) and presented by Norwegian journalis ...

and Eurovision Song Contest 1997. Her entry in 1997, the song "

Dinle Turkey took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997. The country was represented by Şebnem Paker and Grup Etnic with the song "Dinle" written by Mehtap Altıntemiz and composed by Levent Çoker. Both Şebnem Paker and Levent Çoker had repre ...

", composed by Levent Çoker and written by Mehtap Alnıtemiz, achieved a 3rd-place result, Turkey's best result in the contest until their first win in 2003. She released her only album, also called ''Dinle'', in August 1997. In 1998, she once again competed in the national final organized by TRT and expressed the idea to achieve a more successful result at the Eurovision Song Contest every year. However, she could not achieve the success she aimed for, with the song titled "Çal". It was thought to attract the attention of European audiences with its moving melody embellished with ethnic Turkish instruments she used, but did not gain the right to represent Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest that year. She graduated from Marmara University Music Education Singing Department in 2000. She has been working as a music teacher since 2004, after working for 4 years in private educational institutions affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. She has been teaching music at Avni Akyol Fine Arts High School until 2018 and at Aydın Doğan Fine Arts High School since 2018. As of 2018, she is a teacher at a high school in

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, Turkey. She has also coauthored a textbook that is currently being used in art high schools in Turkey.Bireysel Ses Eğitimi
Şebnem Paker, Didem Yücel Kırcı, Esin Öztürk, .

References

1977 births Living people Turkish women singers Turkish pop singers People from Istanbul Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Turkey Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1996 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1997 Istanbul University faculty {{Turkey-singer-stub