Emre Aydın

Emre Aydın — Biography

Emre Aydın is one of the rock singer-songwriters who perform most often in Turkey. His first solo album Afili Yalnızlık made his name, and being voted Europe's Favourite Act at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards carried his career beyond the country. He writes most of his own lyrics and music and has at times directed his own music videos.

He began playing bars in İzmir during his university years, having moved from Isparta to Antalya as a child and then studied economics at Dokuz Eylül University. With his friend Onur Ela in the band 6. Cadde, he won the Sing Your Song competition in 2002 with Dönersen, beating 1,574 applicants, and the band gained a chance to work with Universal Music. He left the group after its 2003 album. Afili Yalnızlık, released in 2006 through Sony BMG and GRGDN, brought about fifty awards and nearly four hundred concerts; in 2007 his duet with Gripin, Sensiz İstanbul'a Düşmanım, led to a joint tour.

In 2010 he recorded Kağıt Evler in Sweden, and a video from that album won him the Golden Butterfly for Best Video. In 2012 he left Sony Music and set up his own company with his manager, then released the duet Soğuk Odalar with Gülden Mutlu. Eylül Geldi Sonra followed in 2013 and Bir Pazar Kahvaltısı, with the band Model, in 2014.