Tarkan

Turkish singer (born 1972)

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Tarkan is a male artist from Türkiye who began his professional career in 1991. His musical output is categorized under genres including pop, Turkish, and aslı. He maintains an official website and has accumulated 4,452,553 social media followers. On the Last.fm platform, his music is tagged with terms such as turkish, pop, Turkish Pop, and dance, with a total playcount of 8,972,429.

Under the author name Tarkan Mustafa, he has five recorded works. These titles include "Love and Weight Loss," "Freud and the Future of a Delusion," "Self Hypnosis for Weight Loss - Love and Weight Loss," "Psychology Secrets - 7 Secrets of the Mind," and "Lose Weight, Find Love and Lose the Anxiety." His encyclopedia entry is referenced by 201 other articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Tarkan
Gender: male
Citizenship: Turkey
Place of birth: Alzey
Occupation: composer
Educated at: Baruch College
Languages spoken: German
Native language: Turkish
Genre: dance-pop
Instrument: voice
Record label: Universal Music Group
Discography: Tarkan discography
Official website: www.tarkan.com
Image: Tarkan (9).jpg

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date of birth: 1972-10-17
birth name: Tarkan Tevetoğlu
name in native language: Tarkan Tevetoğlu
topic has template: Template:Tarkan
Commons category: Tarkan
topic's main category: Category:Tarkan
Commons gallery: Tarkan
influenced by: Michael Jackson
start of work period: 1991-00-00
social media followers: 2910000

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Encyclopedic overview

Tarkan Tevetoğlu ( Turkish pronunciation: [taɾˈkan teˈve.toːɫu]; born 17 October 1972) is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter.

Tarkan was born and raised in Alzey, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the-then West Germany. In 1986, he moved to Turkey together with his family. Tarkan went to high school at Karamürsel and took music lessons. In the following years, he met the owner of İstanbul Plak, Mehmet Söğütoğlu, and signed a contract to record music.

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