Ajda Pekkan

Ajda Pekkan is a Turkish singer whose career spans over more than five decades. She is known as “Superstar” in Turkey, receiving this title once her album Superstar was released in 1978. After a short acting career, she started singing and she has been a stalwart of the Turkish music scene since 1965. A star of both stage and screen, Pekkan’s repertoire extends well beyond Turkish folk and popular music to embrace eclectic styles like French chanson.