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Ayşe Ajda Pekkan was born in Istanbul on February 12, 1946. Her family is of Bosnian origin. Ajda Pekkan, whose father Rıdvan Pekkan was a naval major and her mother Nevin Dobruca (1922-1999) was a housewife, spent her childhood in Gölcük, Kocaeli, due to her father's profession. has passed. -
In 1961, with the support of her sister Semiramis Pekkan, who was a vocal artist, Ajda Pekkan reached the singer İlham Gencer, the owner of the "Çatı" nightclub, and started her music career with Mina's song "Il Cielo In Una Stanza". -
Ajda Pekkan, who started her artistic career as a film actress, started her music career in 1964 with her first album Göz Göz Değdi Bana, released as a B-side, and her first single Her Yerde Kar Var, to great acclaim. . -
In 1993, released the song "Dert Bende Derman Sende" in her compilation album Hoşgör Sen, which compiled her old songs. She sang the same song again in her 1996 studio album Ajda Pekkan. Ajda Pekkan, who does not like singing vocals very much, released the 45-record album Kimler Geldi Kimler Geçti upon the insistence of Fikret Şeneş, and in this album she appeared on the B side of Kaderimin Oyunu. He made a splash with his song "Who Came, Who Passed" and the record sold 65 thousand copies. -
Ajda Pekkan, who released consecutive records, broke the sales record in the arrangement category with her two 45-minute foreign albums, released in 1967. -
She sang the song "Özleyiş" at the International Apollonia Music Festival held in Athens in 1968, and the song "Maybe Bir Gün" at the same festival the following year. He represented Turkey with the song "Ve Ben Now" at the "Mediterranean Songs Festival" held in Barcelona, and his songs were used as background music in many films. He made casino programs with Zeki Müren. -
Ajda Pekkan gave serial concerts with French singer Enrico Macias at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris in 1976 and sang the Turkish versions of many of his songs. He broke sales records in Turkey with his single Viens Dans Ma Vie, which he released in 1977. The song "Viens Dans Ma Vie" on side A became a popular song and became Turkey's best-selling record in a foreign language. -
His increasing popularity in Europe and his representation of Turkey in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest put pressure on him to improve the country's image. Although he initially announced that he would not participate in the competition, which he found "amateur", he eventually had to accept the offer made by TRT. He finished the competition in 15th place with the song "Pet'r Oil", which was a shock to those around him who were sure that he would get a high ranking.