Emrah (singer)
Emrah Erdogan ( born January 1, 1971 in Ergani, Diyarbakir province ), also known by his stage name Emrah, is a Turkish singer and actor.
He uses his mother 's maiden name Ipek as his surname. Emrah lost his father at the age of one and a half years. Later they moved to Elazig, his mother found work there. While Emrah in Elazig attended school, his music teacher noticed him. Together they recorded some demo tapes before Emrah mid-80s became famous.
Music career
His first music album agam agam he brought in 1983 under the name " Küçük Emrah " ( Little Emrah German ) out. After the album Ayrılamam ( German: I can not separate myself ), which sold more than 1,500,000 times, he was called Prince of Arabesk. In the 90s he took the nickname Küçük and began to write their own songs. In addition, his music became more and more influenced by pop.
With his first two albums in the 90's but he was unable to repeat the success of his previous records. In 1991, published " Sen Gülünce " ( German: when you smile ) could just sell 350,000 copies.
Because of this low sales figures, Emrah decided to change his style of music. With his next album Haydi Şimdi he dabbled in " Fantazi Müzik ", a mixture of Arabesk and pop.
The album was a huge success and sold 1,100,000 copies in its first year alone. It was the best selling album of 1993 in Turkey. Overall Haydi Şimdi has sold over 1,795,000 times and is the most successful album of Emrah. Another record was Emrah recorded with his concert in the " Inonu Stadium " in 1994. As the first Turkish artist, he managed to fill the stadium with 50,000 spectators.
After the album Sevdim Mi Tam Severim ( German: if I love, I love correctly), which sold only 300,000 units, separated Emrah from the record company " Barış & Bayar Müzik " and signed with "mars Müzik ", where he wrote his own record label founded.
The first album, which was released under " Emrah Müzik " was Narin Yarim from the year 1996. The album sold in the first 20 days following publication of more than 425,000 copies and was a great success. It contains ( German: take me with you wherever you go ) with " Narin Yarim ", " Götür Beni Gittiğin Yere " and " Unutabilsem " ( German: if I could forget ) 3 songs which made it to the best-of- album.
In May 1998, he released his 15th album also successful Dura Dura. The clip for the song Dura Dura earned him a nomination at the Kral TV Video Awards. With " Belalim Benim " ( German: my astray ) the album contains a greatest hits of Emrahs at all.
His 17th studio album Ar ı, which was released in 2002, was again one of the best-selling albums of the year. It was honored by the MT - YAP for special sales success.
With the album Kusursuzsun ( German: you're flawless ) he brought in 2004 released an album that is very different from its predecessors. Modern pop songs dominate the album Arabesque Title One looks in vain. Although Emrah with his albums Kusursuzsun and Dön: has ( German traffic back ) from 2005 through get very good reviews, many of his fans are disappointed with the new music of their stars. This is also the low sales of the two albums: From Kusursuzun were only 185,000 and sold by Dön only 100,000 copies.
In September 2006, first appeared in a maxi single by Emrah. The " mini-album " called Adın Ne Senin ( German: what is your name ) was relatively successful for a single with 40,000 copies sold.
In the course of his now 28- year career Emrah can look back on countless hits such as: Yarali ( wounded ), Boynu Bükükler ( the oppressed ), Ben Yetim (I'm a ward ), Ayrılamam (I can not separate myself ), Vurmayın, Seninle Ilk Defa ( for the first time with you ), Haydi Şimdi gel Unutabilsem inter alia His most popular piece but is probably Belalim Benim.
On 13 November 2007 his first best-of album has been released. The album contains 14 of his greatest hits, Emrah has re- sung in the studio.
With the album Yelpaze, which was released on 15 July 2008, Emrah experimented first with R & B. By the end of the year it sold only 25,000 times and is the least selling album of the singer.
After three years of absence Emrah put his music career with his 22nd studio album " Terzinin oglu " ( the tailor's son ) continued. For the promotion of the new album, the singer came up with something special: As the first Turkish artist Emrah presented his new songs on a steamboat between two continents. The TV channel TRT broadcast the event in 42 countries. The album, which was released on July 5, 2011, is much more successful than the last four albums of the singer. The first edition. of " Terzinin oglu " was already sold out after 50 minutes. Within the first three weeks, more than 100,000 copies of the album were sold.
Acting Career
At the age of thirteen Emrah first stood in front of the camera. In his films he often sings songs that can be found on his albums. There is one track of the same name to the movies Yarali, Boynu Bükükler, Acıların Çocuğu, Ayrılamam and Vurmayın. With Yalniz Güneş Şahitti Emrah initially turned his last film in 1994.
Similar successes such as with his music and his films Emrah could achieve for the first time in 1996 with a television series. In Unutabilsem he played the lead role in one of the most successful Turkish television series. The music for the series itself sang Emrah Unutabilsem The piece can be found on his album Narin Yarim.
2002 was the actor in turn land a big TV hit with Kınalı Kar. This time he sang the self- written and composed song.
Two years later, Emrah played the lead role in Büyük Yalan. Here, however, he sang the track Büyük Yalan at the Opening itself not only on the album Dön is heard even the song of Emrah.
In 2006, Emrah again played the lead role in a television series; Adak but was dismissed due to disagreements between the TV channel and the production company after only ten episodes.
In September 2007, Emrah starred in the series oglum için next Fatma Girik the lead role. The soundtrack for the series comes in turn from Emrah itself Yüreğim The song is sung at the Opening of Paramparca Gulay. The series was canceled due to low ratings after nine episodes.
Two years later, in September 2009 Emrah played in the series " Hicran Yarası " with. For the first time he played with in a series not from the beginning, but only got one in the 26th episode. Emrah composed for the series the song " Hicran Yarası ", which served as the opening from the 26th series. The series was more successful than the last two, in which Emrah starred.
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- Emrah Ipek has an illegitimate son named Tayfun. The child's mother, Ebru Çolak, filed on 2 April 1992 a lawsuit against Emrah, to prove the paternity of the singer. After a prescribed court paternity tests he recognized the paternity of Tayfun on eventually. However, the process dragged on for nine years, since Emrah repeatedly ignored the request for a paternity test. Emrah even asserted that the reason why he refused to take the test, would have nothing to do with Tayfun. It 'll go to him the fact that Ebru Çolak dragged him to court to get his money in this way.
- In addition to Turkey Emrah is also popular in Iran. In an Internet Voting he was more than 60 percent voted the most popular Turkish singer before musicians like Mahsun Kırmızıgül, İbrahim Tatlıses, Özcan Deniz, Ferdi Tayfur and Orhan Gencebay.
- In May 2007, Emrah won the court battle against Mustafa Hakan Yıldız. This was published in 2000 under the name " Emral " an album. Not only Yıldızs artist name resembled that of Emrah. Also, hairstyle, clothing style and voice showed striking similarities. Emrah Ipek threw Mustafa Hakan Yıldız right to copy its appearance and name in order to gain more attention. After a seven-year process gave the court Emrah right and sentenced Mustafa Hakan Yıldız aka " Emral " to a fine of 511,000 YTL, the equivalent of 290,000 euros.
- Since the beginning of 2007 Emrah owner of a fitness and wellness studio called " SportEM ".
- The release of his latest album " Terzinin oglu " was originally scheduled for 14 February 2011. However, it was broken in January Emrahs recording studio. Under the stolen goods were located next to the computers and mixers, the recordings for the album and songs that Emrah had written for other artists.