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Tarkan is a Turkish pop singer born in 1972 who became one of the most commercially successful music artists from Turkey. He gained international recognition in the 1990s and 2000s and remains an influential figure in Turkish popular music.
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Tarkan Tevetoğlu (born October 17, 1972 in Alzey, West Germany), popularly known as Tarkan, is a successful World Music award-winning pop music singer in Turkey. He has released several platinum-selling albums during his career, with an estimated 15 million albums sold, and is also involved in producing music through his own music company HITT Music, which he established in 1997. Noted for his live stage performances, the Washington Post has compared Tarkan's effect on Turkey as analogous to Elv
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Tarkan Tevetoğlu ( Turkish pronunciation: [taɾˈkan teˈve.toːɫu]; born 17 October 1972) is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter.
Tarkan was born and raised in Alzey, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the-then West Germany. In 1986, he moved to Turkey together with his family. Tarkan went to high school at Karamürsel and took music lessons. In the following years, he met the owner of İstanbul Plak, Mehmet Söğütoğlu, and signed a contract to record music.
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