Ayşegül Aldinç

Ayşegül Aldinç — Biography

Ayşegül Aldinç (born 28 September 1957 in Istanbul) is a Turkish singer and actress, the daughter of sports journalist Orhan Aldinç. A ceramics graduate of Marmara University's Faculty of Fine Arts, she briefly worked as a music teacher and then spent six years as a pattern designer at the Yıldız porcelain factory.

Her professional music career began with the Modern Folk Trio, with whom she represented Turkey at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin with the song "Dönme Dolap". She released her first solo album in 1988 and between 1985 and 1998 gave concerts in many countries, from Europe and the Soviet Union to the United States and China.

Aldinç started acting in the 1985 TRT series Acımak and moved into cinema in 1987 with Yağmur Kaçakları and Katırcılar. She won the Best Actress award at the Adana Altın Koza Film Festival in 1994 for Gerilla, and also appeared in films such as Güle Güle and Kahpe Bizans.