Hatice Deniz Tekin (born 7 June 1997) is a Turkish

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and

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. Her interest in music began at the age of 8, when she started to play

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and

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. She joined various local music groups during her secondary and high school years. At the age of 16, she began performing live music in small cafes. At the same time, she shared her own recordings under the nickname Daphead on various music platforms and made covers of known songs and attracted attention. In 2017, she released her first studio album ''Kozakuluçka''.

Life and career

She was born in İzmir as a child of a civil servant and spent her first years in Konak. Her parents studied dentistry and she spent her childhood in different provinces. She first went to

Mardin Mardin ( ku, Mêrdîn; ar, ماردين; syr, ܡܪܕܝܢ, Merdīn; hy, Մարդին) is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for the Artuqid architecture of its old city, and for its strategic location on ...

with her family and finished primary school there. Then she completed her secondary and high school education in

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. Her interest in music started with piano and flute with the encouragement of her father. In Gaziantep, she shared her works on music sharing platforms such as

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and attracted attention. Her recordings during this period were listened to between 1 and 7 million times on

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. After creating an adequate audience, she gave concerts in big cities such as Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Antalya. In an interview in 2015, Turkish singer Kalben drew attention to the instruments and voice of Tekin. After leaving Gaziantep, she started studying Western Languages and Literature at

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. In 2017, at the age of nineteen, she released her first studio album ''Kozakuluçka'', which consists of nine songs. In this album, she also covered songs such as "Beni Vur" by

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and Yusuf Hayaloğlu. Later she performed a number of songs together with

Can Ozan Can Ozan (born 7 October 1990) is a Turkish musician and record producer. He performs acoustic and electronic music. He has collaborated with artists such as Deniz Tekin, Zeynep Bastık, Nova Norda, Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut, Damla Eker, Umut Döven ...

Discography

;Albums * ''Kozakuluçka'' (2017) ;Singles * "Hep Oturup Bekledim" (2017) * "Çözülmez" (2018) * "Yıldızlar" (2019) * "Hep Sonradan" (2020) * "Ne Yapsam Yanarım" (2020) * "Aman Ayrılık" (2020) * "Güneşe Doğru" (2020)

References

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