Ceylan Ertem

Ceylan Ertem (born 26 December 1980) is Turkish singer-songwriter.
Early life and career.
Ceylan Ertem started her musical career by joining the Akhisar Municipality’s children choir. She started learning how to play piano in 1995 and moved to Istanbul in 1999 to continue her musical education. There she attended the Mujdat Gezen Art Academy and studied Western Music for 2 years. Then she enrolled in the Musicology department of Yıldız Technical University for her bachelor degree. 
In 2000, she formed the band Anima with Tuncay Korkmaz. Anima, with its all members studying in the same faculty at the YTU, released their first and only album "Animasal" in 2006. In 2008, she started producing the radio show "SubidaP" on Acık Radyo, the show aired for 26 weeks.
International work.
In 2008, she recorded with Philipp Gropper and Wanja Slavin in Berlin for the project "Octophone". Later, she had many concerts in Berlin as well. She worked with other European bands such as "United Fools" of France and “Barana” of Netherlands.
Albums.
In 2010, she released her first solo album. The album was called "Soluk". She recorded the whole album with 40 musicians. She continued with her solo career with "Ütopyalar Güzeldir" in 2012, "Amansız Gücenik" in 2014, and cover album "YUH!" in 2015. In 2016, she was invited to work on the project which was attributed to Zülfü Livaneli, on which she covered "Kiz Cocugu". She released her 4th studio album "Yine de Amin" in February 2017.