Özlem Tekin

Özlem Tekin is a Turkish female rock singer and actress. He was born in California because her father was a prominent Turkologist at UC Berkeley. Then they moved to Turkey and she grew up in Ankara.

Şebnem Ferah and Ebru Bank formed the band called Volvox (now she is known as Ebru Eroğlu as she is married Cenk Eroğlu). Later, Özlem Tekin became a member of Volvox too. She played keyboards and she performed lead singer as well.

After Volvox disbanded, Özlem Tekin worked for her solo albums. She has 5 albums now. I think she has been always in "change" of her style. Her fans critisized her badly sometimes but she always did whatever she wants.

By the time, she played in some movies and tv serials too. I remember she had a very good performance in the movie Hokkabaz. She played a crazy bride role in it.

In 2005, he released her last album, 109876543210. It looks like a complicated name? Easy though... It is just

the numbers from 10 to 0. I don't know why she chose such a name.

In this album, there are a few songs were used as soundtracks of the Turkish movie Sınav. It was directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, and famous actor Jean-Claude Van Damme had a role in Sınav. This movie tells the story of the university exam in Turkish education system. This exam is called ÖSS. This is a test. Every question has five options with alphabet letters A, B, C, D. One of the songs of Özlem Tekin has a word game and the referrence to this exam. Its name is "A-şık". I want to share this song...

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You may check Wikipedia for more information about her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Özlem_Tekin

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