WHicran Muazzez Abacı is a Turkish singer. Trained in Turkish classical music, she has achieved considerable popular success in the Turkish Classical Music genre. She has been active since 1973 with a silent period between 2002 and 2012.
WGürer Aykal is a Turkish conductor and adjunct professor at Bilkent University. He has been the musical director and principal conductor of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra since 1999.
Wİdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist.
WHaldun Dormen is a Turkish theater, movie and TV series actor and film director. Dormen is of Turkish Cypriot descent.
WErol Erdinç is a Turkish conductor of classical music, composer, pianist and educator.
WÖzdemir Erdoğan is a Turkish singer-songwriter and composer. He was elected as a Turkish state artist in 1998.
WVerda Erman was a Turkish pianist.
WOrhan Gencebay is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor. Gencebay was born in the coastal town of Samsun on 4 August 1944. He is of Crimean Tatar descent. In 1998, he was named a State Artist of Turkey.
WAyşe Leyla Gencer was a Turkish operatic soprano.
WZeki Levent Kırca was a Turkish comedian, stage and film actor, columnist of the newspaper Aydınlık and politician of the left-wing Patriotic Party.
WHülya Koçyiğit is a Turkish actress. A prominent female lead in the Turkish cinema, she received numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Altogether, she has acted in some 180 films.
WŞefika Kutluer is a Turkish female classical flautist.
WZeki Müren was a Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor and poet. Known by the nicknames "The Sun of Art" and "Pasha", he was one of the prominent figures of the Turkish classical music. Due to his contributions to the art industry, he was named a "State Artist" in 1991. He was the first singer to receive a gold certification in Turkey and throughout his career recorded and released hundreds of songs on cassettes and phonograph records.
WNilüfer Yumlu, commonly known as Nilüfer, is a Turkish pop singer.
WGülsin Onay is a leading Turkish concert pianist of German descent, based in Cambridge.
WAhmet Özhan is a prominent Turkish classic music singer, conductor, and actor.
WAyşe Ajda Pekkan is a Turkish singer. She is known by the title "Superstar" in the Turkish media. Pekkan became a prominent figure of Turkish pop music with her songs, in which she tried to create a strong female figure. By keeping her works updated and getting influence from Western elements, she managed to become one of Turkey's modern and enduring icons in different periods. Her musical style has kept her popular for more than 50 years and has inspired many of her successors. Pekkan is highly respected in the music industry and her vocal techniques together with many of her albums were praised by music critics.
WCemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Reşit Rey (1900–1959) wrote the librettos.
WAhmet Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music.
WŞener Şen is a Turkish film and theatre actor who has won the Golden Orange for Best Actor twice for his roles in Mr. Muhsin (1985) and Lovelorn (2005), the Golden Orange for Best Supporting Actor for Çöpçüler Kralı (1977) and a Golden Orange Lifetime Achievement Award.
WTürkan Şoray is a Turkish actress, writer and film director of Circassian origin. She is known as "Sultan" of the Cinema of Turkey. She started her career in 1960, and won her first award as the most successful actress at the 1st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival for the movie Acı Hayat. Having appeared in more than 222 films, Şoray has starred in the most feature films for a female actress worldwide. On 12 March 2010, Şoray was chosen as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in Turkey, about which she said: "I think there is nothing that cannot be done with love. If we combine power with love, we can overcome many problems".
WOkay Temiz is a Turkish fusion jazz percussionist and drummer.
WBehsat Üvez, was a Turkish singer, composer, and teacher. He was the founder of Barana.
WMehmet Yankı Yönel is a Turkish radio host TV presenter and voice actor. For more than 25 years, he has also been producing jingles, promos and commercials for radios and TV stations. He has hosted his own shows on various radio stations which streaming Turkish and foreign music since 1996. He came on board as the voiceover of Jelli Radios which is owned by Karnaval Media Group and defines itself as Turkey's first social radio. He continues to perform his works at his production firm My Production. He is best known for his internationally syndicated radio show Jelli Show and he still works on Metro FM (Turkey) and Super FM in Istanbul.
WMetin Yurdanur is a Turkish school teacher and sculptor, who was awarded the title State Artist of Turkey.